I am writing a blog post! Crazy!

Perhaps before any regular blogging can happen, I have some serious catching up to do! In a nutshell, I have been busy. Life over the past couple of months has included a new kitty, a cross-country move, setting up a new house, and starting a new job.

Blog World let me introduce you to Sammy!

Two weeks before we moved a friend’s daughter found a litter of  kittens.  After seeing pictures of the litter on Facebook we decided  that we should go see them and we came home with Sammy.

At first Sophie was not to welcoming of her new brother but after several weeks they are now buddies (for the most part).  I was kind of nervous about getting a kitten weeks before it all worked out.

Early May: We officially packed up our house in San Antonio. We let the movers take all of our “big” pieces and we filled a U-Haul with  all of Allyn’s tools, stuff the movers would not take and the Scirocco (behind the U-Haul of course).

After two days of intense driving we finally arrived at our new home  in Florence, Kentucky.

Since we arrived a few days before the moving truck we had to time to paint a few rooms before the furniture arrived.

After we got everything into the house – we made another trip down to San Antonio to pick up our Cats and close out the house in San Antonio.

Memorial Day weekend was spent driving two cats from San Antonio to  Northern Kentucky. We survived the road trip and the cats even enjoyed  their first say in a hotel room.

At the beginning of June I started the next chapter of my career at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives on the campus of Hebrew Union College.

Overall I am settling into my new life in the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area. There have been a few moments of  frustration and homesickness but many more moments of excitement. I look forward to  exploring a new area and living in a new part of the country!!!