Getting Ready to Rumble

These next few months… and years are about to get intense.

Starting in August, I’m going to be entering back into the world of Student-dom. First, I will be taking a twenty hour/five day intense Dutch course. I’m hoping that it will really help me with my speaking and grammar so that I can consistently and effectively communicate with family, friends and colleagues in Dutch. I’m really looking forward to these courses and can’t wait to see the outcome. I’m really hopeful because I already understand so much. Being able to form sentences and speak and express myself is just the next exciting step of living here… plus it is about time anyways. It’s so frustrating wanting to be able to communicate and not being sure how to put together sentences even though I know the words, or when I go to put sentences together, my mouth forgets what it’s doing and a whole jumble of awkward sounds come out. Super embarrassing.

At the end of August, I will be embarking on my part time education journey with the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA for short) (aka the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) in an International Business and Management course. The program is four years long. I’m really open to the opportunities it will open up for me both in the work I’m doing now and for perspective things in the future. It will also be so so so nice to finally have a degree. Classes for this will be twice a week for 3.25 hours a class.

Job is also embarking on a part time educational journey in the IT field. He is also doing his education with HvA and will have classes two nights a week.

Although we are both very excited, it’s also a bit of a bummer because we don’t have classes on any of the same days, which means we will probably only see each other three times a week. But it’s nothing we can’t adjust to or handle! To say we’re not used to it would be a lie as we spent almost a year and a half living on different continents. It will definitely be a big adjustment though, as now we’ve lived together for over a year and a half.

Needless to say, we are definitely going to be doubling down and prepping for school in the next coming month.

Wish us luck!

‘Merica Bound

In one week, Job and I will be making our way to America for some East Coast summer fun.

We initially planned this trip as a fun surprise for my parents, however, time was not on our side, and we ended up booking our trip for the same dates that they are traveling to Australia for a wedding.  In my defense, I thought that they would be going to Australia in May (officially they took off for Australia  yesterday so it technically is May that they are traveling there) for the wedding, but alas, they are there from now until June 18th-ish, which is when we fly back to Amsterdam.

Jammer bummer! (this sounds like yummer bummer. Jammer is the dutch word for bummer…)

I honestly haven’t been looking too forward to this trip until about three days ago.  Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting increasingly happier about it (it’s definitely time for a vacation) but we hadn’t planned anything for our time in the states… and we haven’t really been able to figure out exactly what we wanted to do while we were there.

Lucky for us, some plans are finally starting to take shape.

We are getting picked up by our fabulous friends Ayla and Chauncey who are driving all the way to New York City to pick us up.  We’ll spend only one night and a bit of a day there, getting to see my sister (I think?) and my Aunt, Uncle and cousins. We’re going to make the absolutely necessary stop at Dominique Ansel’s bakery for an early morning cronut and from there, maybe spend a little bit of time in the city and then hit the road to Rhode Island.

On the third, I will have the distinct pleasure of accompanying Job and Ayla to their first every Boston Red Sox game. Chauncey is coming too. This will also be Job’s first baseball game. Since the game isn’t until the evening, we’ll have some time to check out some other fun sights in Boston as well!

On the weekend, Talya will be coming to Rhode Island to meet up with some high school friends and go out on a shopping date with me.  The pool guy will come over and show us how to maintain the pool while we’re visiting so we can stay cool in the humid June heat.

And somewhere in the middle, I’ll be visiting Camy and Poppy, my grandparents!

After that point, we really have no plans.  We will be spending most of our time in Rhode Island, and have to plan our return to New York City to catch our plane back to Amsterdam (and hopefully see some beautiful Tri-State friends!!!).

Job has talked a lot about barbecuing which will be super fun if we can get that going, and of course, I want to be able to see as many people as I can.

So! If you’re in the area at any point in time and want to see us, let us know! Come over for a swim, we can go to the beach, grab a meal, plan a day trip!

Let us know!

Can’t wait to see you all!

Eggs in a Nest: A Paleo Adventure

Job and I have been working on eating healthier and adding some more produce to our meals.  We’ve also been trying to make cheap food that is tasty and we can bring for lunch a few times a week/ is super fast to make.

Enter our friends Laurent and Buster who have been sporting a super healthy eating and living style.  One day while I was on lunch break, Laurent happened to have lunch at the same time as me.  He pulled out something that smelled so good! I asked him what he had there, and he proceeded to enlighten me about Eggs in a Nest.

Now if you google search Eggs in a Nest, you get a trillion recipes, but this one is different. Laurent sent me the recipe that he found on this awesome Dutch Paleo blog. (If you can read/speak Dutch, you’ll feel right at home checking out the website. If not, keep reading because I’ll teach you how to do it.)

Ingredients: (Serves 2)

• 1 Tablespoon of coconut oil
• 1 Onion (her recipe says in slices.  I prefer to dice mine)
• 200 g (7 oz) of (beef) Sausage in rounds (slices?)
• 300 g (10.5 oz) of Brussel Sprouts quartered (she likes hers sliced in half)
• 100 g (3.5 oz) Kale (cut up) (In the Netherlands, the kale comes pre-cut to the perfect shape/size)
• 4 eggs
• Pepper
• Salt
• Garlic Powder (I use a garlic grinder…)
• Chili flakes if you like a kick
• Large frying pan
• Lid
• 1/2 cup of water

I like to cut up everything first, but if you’re not a prepping kind of person, throw that tablespoon of coconut oil in a hot pan.

Let it liquify and make sure to swirl the oil to coat the bottom/sides of the pan.

Add the chopped onions and let them get a nice color to them.

Once the onions have a little bit of a brown to them, throw in that sausage.Here I like to add my first round of spices. Some salt, pepper, ground garlic and chili flakes.

Stir the sausage and make sure it gets nice and browned on all sides.

Add in the brussel sprouts.

Cooke them until they’re a nice bright green. This takes a few minutes. I usually add a bit more pepper here. (I LOVE PEPPER!!!)

Time for the kale.  Add the kale.

It may feel like your pan is totally overflowing.  That’s okay.  Add in about a half cup of water to create a nice steaming effect and put a lid on your pan. This will help the kale to compress a bit into the pan making it easier to stir in the next step.

Let it sit for maybe a minute until the kale kind of cooks a bit and turns brighter green.

Remove the lid, stir everything again so it’s all mixed, and make it nice and even throughout the pan.

Crack the four eggs (one at a time) over the bed of kale, brussel sprouts and sausage.

Replace the lid again.  Let it sit for 3-5 minutes.

The eggs will cook and turn a creamy white/opaque color.

You can add some more spices on your eggs while they cook if you want to (obviously I did).  If you like runny eggs, cook them closer to three minutes.  If you like more solid eggs, cook them closer to five minutes.

I really enjoy scrambling the eggs through the dish at around the four minute mark and then take the pan off the heat.

Serve yourself a nice bowl full and enjoy a healthy and hearty meal!

(I cooked everything on a high heat… but you can do the last steps on a lower heat)

Traditions: Old and New

Growing up, we are introduced to many traditions that our parents have set forward for us. As I child, for as far back as I can remember, we always celebrated (albeit in our own way…) the main Jewish holidays such as Hanukkah, the festival of lights; Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year; Yom Kippur, the day of atonement; passover or Pesach, our liberation from Egypt; and on occasion, Purim, the celebration of the liberation from the Persian king and Sukkot, the celebration of the harvest. The latter two were mostly celebrated with our hebrew school and once we were no longer in hebrew school, didn’t really continue the tradition…sometimes we still made Hamantaschen for Purim. As we grew older and made friends, we shared our traditions with our friends, and they shared theirs with us. I spent every Christmas and Easter at my friend Ayla’s and she spent every first night of Hanukkah and Passover with us. She learned about my heritage, and I, hers. Her family also had a bunch of other fun traditions, such as solstice parties and Pi Day, and halloween was always a festive delight with them. And for New Years Eve every year, our family traveled to New York City to be with my friend Julia and her family.  We made a tradition of walking to Central Park and sitting on the rocks to watch the fireworks be launched above one of the big lakes. Our moms always got us that year’s super cool sunglasses and we took a picture. Over the years, I’ve invited all of my good friends to come over and experience a “Fischbach Holiday” because they’re always exciting. I’m always excited to introduce my grandmother, Camy, and my grandfather, Poppy, to all of my friends. They are both so full of life and spirit (even if Poppy is sometimes a grump) that they make the meals exciting. They always have interesting stories to tell from when they were younger, or give a bit of perspective on the world we live in now.

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Now I live in a different country.  My old traditions have fallen wayside to the new traditions Job and I are following (and creating each year) with his family. And maybe they’re not new traditions for them, but they’re new for me. The one thing I still want to be able to do is share those traditions with my family and friends State-side, just the way I shared my traditions with them before I moved. This year, Job and I, over Thanksgiving, taught my family and Chauncey, Ayla and her family (and my friend Yas) about Sinterklaas. We brought over from Amsterdam all sorts of treats like Pepernoten and Schuimpjes and Taai Taai. We played the Sinterklaas game. I touched on it a little in this post and this post. It was so fun for me to learn a little about what the Dutch do as well, as I had never experienced Sinterklaas before this either. And of course, Job was (re)introduced to Thanksgiving and Hanukkah (which we celebrated early this year as we were not able to be together. I also got to celebrate Sinterklaas and Christmas here. We wrote silly poems to each other and played a fun trivia game together. We ate yummy food and everything was gezellig (as it usually is when you get to spend time with family for a fun occasion.) Job and I bought a tree together and decorated it. We also made a make-shift menorah as I forgot the three I own in America when we were there for Thanksgiving (along with my ice skates 😦 ) We lit the candles here every night and enjoyed eachother’s company and warmth and thus began for us a new tradition. This Easter was the second Easter for me away from home. Normally, I would go to Ayla’s Auntie Sara’s house. We would guess how many jelly beans were in that year’s “guess how many” jar, eat some yummy food and then have a thrilling competition/Easter egg hunt gathering as many of the eggs strewn about the yard. We would then of course count them up to see who had the most and then would enjoy a dessert and a fun game of giant foam frisbee in the cul-de-sac at the end of Sara’s street. This year, we all got together at our apartment and had some amazing food and celebrated Job’s birthday as it was the most convenient time for everyone to get together. Job’s dad made some traditional Easter bread (as he does every year as part of their tradition, and he makes one for each of his “kids'” families.) You can read more about it here. Ayla sent me the photos from her Easter celebration and reminded me that everyone was sad that I was not able to be in attendance again this year.

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I’m really excited to learn more about Dutch traditions and the traditions Job’s family has, and I’m also really excited to continue sharing my traditions with him and his family, as well as share my new experiences with my family and friends back home. What are your favorite holiday traditions that your family has or that you’ve started? Are there traditions that you used to have that you no longer do? Let us know in the comments or on facebook and twitter! Side Bar: I know we have more pictures out there from all of our various traditions (Mom, Lisa, Julia, Talya, Ayla and Kathy, I’m looking at you guys!) Feel free to send me any pictures you find and I can add them here!

Easter Day (Celebrating Job’s Birthday)

As I sit here this evening, stuffed to the gills with the amazing food I was able to help make, and later consume this evening, I think of how privileged and lucky I am to be part of such an amazing family. A family that welcomed me into their arms, and helped me acclimate to a new country, a new life, and a family who is always there for each other. It’s really special to be a part of this family.

Today, Job and I woke up and started cooking almost right away.

We (and by we I mean Job) decided that we should make a Porchetta. We (Job) found a nice recipe from Jamie Oliver. We decided to make sides of brussel sprouts and some rosemary and garlic roasted potatoes. We also melted some dark, milk, and white chocolate bars into a chocolate bark and added some of the salted caramel we made the other day along with some hazelnuts and some pink himalayan salt. And everything came out spectacularly.

Job also made a bread which we didn’t eat, but I’ll show you a picture 🙂

Some time after four, Job’s parents arrived with the special birthday taartjes that they never forget to supply for any birthday we celebrate with the family. We ate the cakes together, chatted and caught up with them which was really nice.

They had to bring out Tess, the beautiful chocolate lab, and only a few minutes after they left, the doorbell rang (which made us jump with surprise as we were not expecting it) and Liselot, Bram and Moos came upstairs.

Moos was very excited which was really fun to see. He ran around and jumped up and down and was overall very happy. Bram and Liselot are doing well also!

Moos saw the birthday gift for Job sitting on our green chest and of course was very excited to open it. We told him it was for Job, which was okay with him, but he really wanted Job to open it. To take his mind off of it for a few minutes, oma gave Moos some easter gifts. (Moos got a “big fish book” (it was a book with a whale on it) and some yummy bunny chocolates.) Moos played a bit and then he saw Job’s present again and asked if Job was going to open it.  We all obliged and Moos brought the very heavy gift over to Job. We jointly got Job the pasta maker KitchenAid attachment.

We chatted and talked a bit and then it was time to eat. Right as we finished making sure all of the food was ready, Joris arrived. Perfect timing!!!

Dinner was, as the Dutch say, “Echt gezellig!” Really nice, cozy, warm, being around family. There is no real english translation for the word. We chatted, laughed, had some serious conversation, talked about our future plans, and things of the past.  It was nice to be together and spend time with each other. We all lead such busy lives and have such packed schedules that it often takes a month to plan a time when we can all see each other, so I think for all of us, it was nice to have time together.

We finished with a speculaas cake that Joris brought back from his recent trip in Gent, Belgium.

I’m still full… and it’s almost two hours later… what a lovely evening!

How did you celebrate Easter/Passover? Do you guys like it better with the photos scattered throughout the post or in a gallery at the end? Let us know in the comments below or feel free to comment on our facebook or twitter!

Side note: Job’s birthday is on Tuesday.  We just celebrated it today because that’s when the whole family could get together. 

Foods…

The night before last, as I sat on our balcony staring at the sunset while swirling my wine, the first thing…well the first person… that popped into my mind was my sister; mainly because I was swirling my wine, and well, my sister is living in Italy… and she likes wine, so I texted her just to check up on things.

We got to talking and we landed where we land a lot.. talking about food.  This time, it was food we missed.  We talked about what Job and I made for dinner and how she was jealous…and then a small story about peanut butter… but really her list of things she missed was just glorious.

So really, here is just my list from notes of foods that I miss… to be clear, originally I was going to make a post of just foods I missed and then restaurants that I missed, but at this point, I’ll just let you see the list I have.

Most missed American foods

• Maple syrup (Vermont)
• Cabot’s Seriously sharp cheddar cheese
• Chobani/oikos
• Annies Mac & cheese
• Kraft Mac & cheese
• Mint chocolate chip ice cream
• Skittles (All of the fun flavors!)
• Sour patch watermelons
• Sabra roasted pine nut hummus
• Dunkin donuts caramel swirl iced latte
• Dunkin donuts turkey cheddar bacon on a French roll
• Maple & brown sugar Quaker oat instant oatmeal
• Moms cooking!!!
• Chipotle, Specifically a burrito bowl with chips and guac
• Julian’s..their Brunch.
• Nick’s on Broadway…their french toast OMG.
• Broadway Bistro …their menu changes weekly I believe…
• Tokyo
• Nice slice their BBQ chicken, Greek, and La Strada pizza are amazing.
• And…I can’t say that I miss this place, but man oh man I cannot wait to try Hudson Street Deli, one of my old co-worker’s new places!

Anyways, this is a running list… so I’m sure I will think of more things I’m missing… now I’m really hungry.

And for those of you who are interested in trying some amazing local cuisine in Providence, RI, try some of those above listed spots!!!!

As an expat, or just when you travel, what foods do you miss the most from home?

Sorry for the long break…

It’s been a few weeks since I posted… but I have good reason for the time gap..

First, Job and I have been working like crazy.

We have to find a new apartment soon.  We’ve been apartment hunting and food shopping and doing normal life things.

Secondly my computer died.  It was having some troubles and then one night it just wouldn’t turn on.  I went to the Apple Store and now I have a new computer.  But it took a few weeks in between my old computer getting sick, being looked at… coming home, getting sick and dying and my getting my new computer.

I know, I know, I totally could have posted using my iPhone or my iPad or something, but to me, it’s about the blogging experience as a whole.  I’m not able to accurately articulate my stories from typing on my phone or iPad and I can’t add in the pictures and flourishes I like to adorn my posts with, so I tried to take some photos in the mean time and post those. 

With all of this being said, I’m back in business now with my new computer and am hoping to have some time in the not so distant future to put up some posts.  We have a few back logged recipes from last month that I can try to post up.

We also have some fun coming up this month.  It’s Job’s birthday on Monday and we are viewing a few apartments.  We’ll try to keep you all up to date on what’s going on where and how life’s going.

Today we were both off and had a nice leisurely morning.  We browsed more apartments online.  After that, we went to one of our favorite coffee shops, Sweet Cup.  They’re this amazing hidden gem in the city with the best coffee I’ve ever had.

After that we took a relaxed bike ride through VondelPark.  From there we headed over towards De Pijp.  We walked around for a few minutes there at the Albert Cuyp Markt.  We biked back home, making a quick stop at Albert Heijn for some groceries and headed back home.

Earlier in the day, we decided to make some Gnocci for dinner.  We put our potatoes in the oven to bake… and by the time they were baked enough to actually make the gnocchi dough, it was around 8PM.  Instead, we decided to have some leftover stammpot from the other night and make the gnocchi dough after we ate dinner.

The gnocchi have been prepped for tomorrow night’s dinner.

After all of our hard work, we decided we needed to reward ourselves with a nice smoothie for dessert.  We created a beautiful Strawberry Banana Smoothie from this recipe here.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 C Strawberries (chopped)

2 Bananas

3/4 C Milk

1/2 C Ice

Directions: 

Put it all in the blender and blend until smooth. (We don’t have a blender so we used our food processor.  Same result.) 

Yumma!

Two Months

Wow! Time flies.  Yesterday marks two months of me living in the Netherlands.  At this point, I’m really starting to feel more comfortable with my surroundings and more like I’m fitting in.  

I’m starting to understand more and more Dutch, even if it’s just a small word here or there.  I’m usually able to figure out the basis of a conversation and somewhat understand what people are talking about around me, so that’s cool.

I’m actually working.  Right now I’m working 4 days a week which is way better than no days a week.  I can understand when people come up to me and say, “Ik heb een vraagje” or “Ik heb een afspraak.” If I’m fast enough I can also throw in a “Ik spreek alleen engels.” (These are the most important things for me to know for work right now.)

All of my colleagues are friendly, welcoming, and genuinely seem like they’re interested in getting to know me.  It’s really nice to feel welcomed into a new place.  

The weather is getting warmer and the sun has been out more.  The weather here is a lot nicer than at home in ‘Lil Rhody.  

Job and I are trying desperately hard to make it through this last month with our limited funds (I will hopefully finally make a pay check [and if I’m super lucky, get my tax return]) and create great food after we come home from long work days. We will also continue looking for our next place of residence.

Things are really going well and I’m having a great time! (And I think Job is too!)

The Password

I woke up to this picture this morning:

So let me tell you the story….

Every weekend, I try to make it possible to FaceTime with my mom.  She misses me a bunch and both of her little chickadees are in Europe, the first time she has had an entirely empty nest in twenty four years!

Anyways, we usually talk about how things are going here, how things are going there… the normal stuff.  Usually we chat most about me getting ready to start working again and the things we’ve cooked.  I talk to her about the construction zone that is our house (by our house, I mean the house I lived in with her and my father in America) and how the options for bath tiles are going.

We usually chat somewhere between two hours I would say and usually it’s around the time my mom is sitting down to enjoy breakfast.

Our chat started off the same way as it always does.  At one point, however, we started speaking about my grandmother and grandfather, (Camy and Poppy) who travel down to Florida each winter. (They’re snowbirds!! :D)  Now normally we just talk about their trip and how lucky they are to be in the warm weather, but my mom kind of halted in the conversation and I knew what that meant…. Time for tech advisor Hannah. The 8 words rolled off of my mom’s tongue and I heard them in slow motion. “Camy got locked out of her Gmail account.” “Oh Geez,” I replied. 

Now let’s just get one thing straight, I really don’t mind giving tech advice or helping fix problems, but “Camy” and “passwords” are kind of like the two most horrifying words of the english language when put in the same sentence.  Camy is a very sharp woman and remembers everything and this wasn’t an issue with her forgetting her password.  (However we’ve dealt with that before as well.) This was a case of phishing/suspicious account activity.  

Okay, well like I said, no problem.  I’m always willing to help.  Now two more things for you to know.  We have a 6 hour time difference between Amsterdam and the East Coast.  Camy also likes to sleep in late because she stays up really late.  So now I had this chat with my mom at around 2:30pm my time, around 8:30am her time.  Clearly I would have to wait a little bit of time before Camy would be up and I would be able to help her.

At around 8:11pm my time, my mom called me back.  This is how this session went.  My mom FaceTimed me on her iPad and called Camy on her phone.  My mom then put Camy on speaker phone.  And we talked like this for an hour and six minutes.

Phase 1:

Now, if any of you have Gmail, most of you know that the common way they do password resets is by sending you a text message to verify you actually are the one initiating the request.  Now, it seemed as though she had this set up (I am her password manager, so I knew most of her account credentials and tried to take a look in the morning when I spoke with my mom to see if I could help her out), but none of the text messages went through to my grandmother’s phone. (My mom also tried to send her phone some texts. I think it’s too old to get texts/it doesn’t accept texts due to her phone plan. Not sure.)

ANYWAYYYSSSSS…

Phase 2:

Since the text message thing didn’t work, I had to try to verify a different way.  Camy probably hasn’t updated her gmail security preferences since she got her account so she was still allowed to have security questions.  Well step one was to answer the security question “Where did you and your spouse meet?”  Now normally people put a city  or a state or a venue or something short here, but when we asked my grandma, she told us a whole long story about Hotel Bradford and Yom Kippur… and despite the fact that I tried almost every combination of the above words nothing worked.  Awesome.

Phase 3:

From here, the only option is to answer questions about the account.  These are the questions.

• When was the last time you were able to access your account? (Month, day year)
• When did you set up your account? (Month and year)
• Who are the people you email most frequently?
• What are some labels you have?
• What is your recover email?

As I’m sure you could guess… we didn’t get very far here.  These questions were presented to Camy and she began to tell us the history of her devices…her iPad, her old laptop thingy, the old mac mini, the computer before that.  We (my mom and I, me explaining to my mom exactly what we needed from Camy and then my mom relaying it to Camy to see if we could get the proper information) let Camy know that we just needed to know when she set up her gmail account and that all the devices didn’t matter.  The only thing that mattered was the gmail email itself.  She also told us stories of an older email address.  We again explained that the only thing that mattered was when the gmail account itself was set up.  

As I mentioned before I was kind of her password manager and I remember back when I was in high school helping her one time with her passwords for her gmail account on her very slow laptop.  I used that as a basis for guessing the time frame in which her gmail account was set up and also guessed a random month.  The first time I did this, I was unsuccessful.  The second time, I was “spot on” and by spot on, I mean close enough that they sent a password reset email to Poppy’s email.

HOORAY!

Phase 4:

After getting this password reset link, I had my mom walk Camy through how to click on the link and start the process.  I am very thankful that my mom is so tech savvy.  (Even if she doesn’t think she is, she really is.  She figures things out on her iPad all the time and sometimes even teaches me new things!) Anyways, This took a lot of stress off of me (sometimes trying to explain things to Camy is difficult because she goes off on tangents or gets caught up with the one thing she is doing, I love her, but sometimes it’s hard) and my mom willingly explained each step and exactly what to click on as Camy narrated everything. (She read the whole password reset email and let us know the options for everything she could do.)  We were finally successful in getting to the page on Gmail to make a new password. This is where the real fun began. (At this point, Job brought over dinner for us and I basically ignored him so I could continue helping solve this fiasco)

In the morning before this whole fun part here happened, right when my mom told me that Camy had been locked out of Gmail, I suggested a password to my mom for Camy to use.  It was slightly different from what she had, but not too difficult to remember.  Upon suggesting this to Camy, she thought it was too confusing and talked with Poppy about what it should be.  We exchanged a few thoughts and my mom and I stressed to her that it was a strong enough password.  I didn’t even bother trying to explain what Phishing was because that is probably what happened for her to get locked out in the first place.  Now anyways, after resetting the password, I suggested that she also change her security question to something that there was literally only one answer for.  She attempted to reset this information but for some reason was unable to. 

Just to be 100% sure that she correctly reset the password, I logged in on my computer and made sure that everything was working properly.  It was so that was good news for me.  I navigated myself to the security page and reset both her security questions and contact information to ensure that if any of this ever happened again, both my mom and I would be able to assist her in the future.

I let both Camy and my mom know that everything was all set and that the correct things were where they needed to be.  As i ate the last piece of chicken off of my plate, we finished our conversations, I was thanked, and we all hung up.

It was an exhilarating evening to say the least!

PS. Camy, Yas loves you. (So do I!!!)

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