Day 4, hear us ROAR

Hitting the publish post button has been weeks in the working, thank you Kim for the shove.  Minutes later I'm working on the second post, mostly because if I make this a habit perhaps I'll post a few times a week.  It becomes more important to post often when you forget happenings as quickly as I do.  There have been moments on this trip that I wanted to freeze because they were just too funny or priceless to want to move forward.  I hope to capture some of those moments in our posts. 
I would like to start with a quote because it will do a better job of summing up some of what I'm feeling this week:

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -Alan Cohen

It's a good quote but I don't connect with the no longer meaningful part.  In fact, I would say this experience and moving away from people I cherish makes the moments I shared with them and continue to share with them via the internet all that more meaningful.  All I can say (if anyone knows me they know that's a meaningless phrase of 4 words) is thank Goodness for skype. 

So, shakeups are good.  That is what I take home with me today.  I find when I am not able to move through my day as I have grown accustomed I am alerted to different stimuli.  It may come across as neurotic and fearful at least until the children begin to behave less like mountain folk and more like londoners but only time will tell.  In the same thought I think "you can take the kid out of the mountain but you can't take the mountain out of the kid."  That makes me smile. 

Today we are heading via tube/bus to Hampstead Heath.  It is a stones throw from where we will be living and beautiful open space in the middle of bustle.  My kids have been like magnets to green grass (we have found dog poo everywhere we have gone)  So Hampstead is just what Dr. Momma has prescribed.  It's going to be a great day.  Here's to yours being great too!  I'll tell you more about Hampstead later and possibly some pics of the area we will be living.  It really is a lovely area.  I hope living there makes me more creative and chic.........