We are home from England, where we had a wonderful visit with our youngest DD.  We also had the enormous privilege of getting to know our new grandbaby, and we're quite taken with her, LOL.  We were there from about week 10 to just before she turned 3 months old, and her mom kept telling people that Reem Audrey ALMOST weighed as much (at 3 months of age) as SHE did when she was born (our youngest was 9lb 13 oz at birth... but that's nothing, LOL, our first born was 10lb 5 oz!). 

Anyway, we had a great time, got up to London for a day trip, which we generally manage each time we visit... and we went to Dover for seafood one day... and our oldest came for a visit a couple days before we left, so we got to overlap and have a whole-family vacation together before heading home (Adriane stayed to visit for another couple weeks).  That way Katie and Alaa weren't totally overwhelmed with family, LOL, the girls got a good visit w/o the folks, and Katie had the most help for the longest time!  We are quite fortunate in how close our girls are - they lived together at University, and have matching tattoos on their wrists (Latin for SISTERS)...

We were also there for the big royal wedding (Harry and Megan), but we didn't go to London THAT day, LOL, though we did watch it on tv (but later in the day, when we could fast forward through the boring bits, ROFLOL).  Bill went to work with our SIL for a few days, to help him with a big job he had in hand (he's self-employed), and our DD was calling me the baby whisperer before we left because Reem DN sleep a lot, but seemed to cuddle up to Nana and have a good sleep quite often... though she does have mommy's temper, and sometimes just wanted mom, no matter what!

Bill started his new job this week... but he did get a few days home before and after our trip, so he had a chance to admire all the work I got done, LOL. I have the staircase 3/4 done, as there is just some trim to put on the posts, one newel post top to attach, and a very small section of handrail and spindles (it's only about 3 spindles wide), at the very top curve of the stairs to finish... I had hoped to get it done before Bill went to work, but got side-tracked working on these blogs and newsletters, new releases, filling orders from my time away, and basically catching up (GBG), so fingers crossed for pics for next months blog.

However, I can't resist leaving you with a picture of my new love... which I am giggling about, as her mom thinks the outfit is too girly girly, but I think she's adorable!  Catch you next month...