bon voyage! with 3 kids!

i'm not going to feel bad about the fact that i haven't posted since before my 5 month old baby was born. we've have a crazy great few months with our little baby j. we've done surgery for pyloric stenosis and then dealt with his  dairy seafood nut egg allergies. and horrific reflux. and skin allergies and horrific diaper rash.  and then there were the holidays and travels and lots of laundry. and flu. and our paul in haiti for 3 weeks. but that is all behind us. 

and now we are off to the republic of georgia! yes! it's a country! by russia and turkey and armenia and azerbaijan. i'll even give you a link to wikipedia so you don't even have to look it up yourself. and here is a fun site about the city we'll be living in: tbilisi. it has mountains and quaint old balconied homes and a river and hot spring bath houses and oh so much to explore. 

after 5 years of planning and working toward a dissertation, paul is finally. getting. it. done.  he started planning this project while still attending classes, in baltimore, in 2006.  after several moves, 2 more kids, a war between russia and georgia, and 3 different research proposals, we are finally back to his original plan to study the health of internally displaced older adults in the republic of georgia. i'll get into more of that later. 

first, the journey! on saturday we will head to chicago for some time with my brother and his family, then meet up with paul's parents for the big flight to europe. after a layover in warsaw, we will have one more flight to take us to tbilisi. that's a lot of travel. don't you think it will be fun? don't you want to come too?

it's going to be great. and i'm going to blog. so add us to your google readers, folks. i promise to post.