Welcome Back, Old Blogger Site!

As many of you likely know, our family is moving to Belfast, Northern Ireland for 1 year.  We are sure to have many adventures and want to have a simple way to share them with our friends and family.  Our kids are also old enough now to want to explore their own voices to pass along their experiences.  So I went to start a blog - wouldn't you know it, I already have one!  It's from 9 or 10 years ago (go ahead, check out the gems of antiquity) and plenty has changed in our world, but we are still the FidLorbs and we may as well pick up from here.

Side note, this is a recurring theme in my life at the moment.  As we've cleaned and sorted and packed to move, I keep stumbling upon treasure (and trash!) troves throughout our house.  In what has seemed like a very short time of 4.5 years, our belongings have multiplied and found their way into piles, and corners, and boxes.  I have unearthed wonderful memories, produced many a functional article (hello plenty of ibuprofen and notebooks and batteries), and purged SO MUCH to local non profits and (unfortunately) the dump.  Abe and I highly recommend (to each other and to you) making the 'clean like you're moving' activity an annual event!

So here we go - launching from our 2 dogs, no kids blog of leisure to our 2 kids, loving our dogs from abroad (more on that later) living abroad blog!  Today is the last day of school for the kids, our house is 98.8% packed, and our tickets are booked for Monday so we are looking forward to a beautiful Whidbey weekend with friends and some of our favorite places.  

Next up, we will share our farewells to Whidbey and maybe a bit of our travels (which will be extremely boring and uneventful).