weighing in

I am starting a mental list of things I will miss if/when we move to England. Here's what I have thought of so far:

• talking to my Mom on the phone every morning
• looking around my kitchen during one of the kids' birthday parties and seeing my mom, my dad and stepmother, Jonathan's parents, my brothers and sisters-in-law, Jonathan's sister and brother-in-law, my step-sister and her husband, and my niece and nephew all together in one room eating cake
• being just a few hours away from my grandparents
  
• this gorgeous house and yard
• getting together with the DWAFs each month
• being able to meet up with my friends from elementary school every few months to watch our children play together
• Wawa coffee (at least there are plenty of Starbucks there)
• Target
• goldfish crackers
• the amazing biscuits at KFC
• Mexican food (I hear it's crap over there)

actually, you can scratch that last one. The kind of Mexican food I like is pretty much crap. I'm sure a true Mexican would shudder at the bean burritos I make for lunch with Taco Bell taco sauce!

Things I am looking forward to:

• hearing delicious English accents everywhere
• being able to travel more
• Boxing Day
• really good chocolate
• access to great Indian food
• also, access to more foreign films
• all of the strange potato chip flavours!
• spelling words like flavour with that extra "u"
• BBC
• exposure to more international news (anything other than Anna Nicole Smith)
• the cooler weather
• no mosquitos
• being able to watch soccer on tv (without paying for premium channels)

Things I am very happy to hear I will not be leaving behind:

• gardening
• Grey's Anatomy (although I'll be paying for premium channels...)
• the Oscars (although I will be watching them late at night and without the DWAFS
• the beach
• Borders
• Thanksgiving (I can cook up a turkey and some mashed potatoes wherever we are, right?)