Back on line

Wow. It’s been nearly 8 months since our last update. It’s been awhile, but we are still here and we want to continue to keep you abreast of our latest adventures. But before we do, I guess we should start with what we have been up to since our last posting: • Nov 18 –Dec 10 – We travelled to Maryland to spend some time with the family, enjoy Thanksgiving and time with Mammy, and to organize our annual shipment to the Congo. It was a busy time. • Dec 10 – Jan 2 – We travelled to Paris to spend Christmas and New Years with Magali’s folks. Busy with the Xmas shopping, but we had a great time. The girls got to spend a lot of time with their cousin Gabriel, while we caught up with some friends, either in person, or by phone. Some of whom we’d lost touch with since high school, but found thanks to Facebook. • Jan – Back in PNR, it’s a really busy period for me, because of taking 7 weeks off, and then coming back just in time for the year end close, which lasted until late January. The big milestone is that Mae started going to day care in January: first for a couple of days, and now 5 days a week. • Feb – Nothing special to report. It just goes by in a hurry, since we’re all running around. • Mar – I’m off to Houston for 2 weeks to train for my new position at Chevron. I’m still in the Congo, but doing higher level analysis. I took the opportunity of being in the US to catch a night of Bill Cosby standup. It was awesome. Meanwhile in Congo, Magali organizes Pointe Noire Accueil’s first party for Saint Patrick’s day. It was a huge success. I come back for two weeks, and we’re in April, off to Maryland. The huge news is that Magali’s association is incorporated in Pointe Noire (more on that in a separate update). • Apr – We’re off for the better part of the month spending quality time with the folks in Maryland from the 1st through the 19th. Magali and I get a couple of days of alone time at the beach, it feels good not to wake up at 6am for a couple of days, and we also get to celebrate the fact that not only are Steph and Mon going to have a baby, but also Steph just got hired to his new job in Congress, and he got to meet Barack Obama in person during the Summit of Americas in Trinidad. That rocks. And that brings us to today. We will try to write more than once every 8 months for now on… so be sure to check out for news regularly.