More Farewells

An email from Yael to the other Chateaulites:

Dears,

We would like to have a family dinner on our last "official" night here (we may already be sleeping over at the new place by then depending on when we move our bed).

We would like to request that one, two, or all three of the following games be played:

Are you there, Moriarty?

Mao

Celebrity

Also, we would like to have at least a short singalong, with as many small and big instruments as we can possibly play.

And we want lots of pictures.

We feel immensely blessed to be able to expand just in the nick of time -- two days ago Ori began crawling in earnest, and pulled up to standing, all in one day! We also feel very bittersweet about leaving this sweet nest in the beautiful treehouse village we've shared with you dear friends for almost two years. Over these last two years we have felt so, so lucky, on a constant basis, to live with such a special family of friends, and to have had the immense honor of living with the one and only Ellen Margron (whose real estate prowess and adventurous spirit was part of what inspired us to go for it, and who we imagine has been smiling upon our journey). Our new home is only 2 miles away, so we've decided it's just an east wing of our beloved Chateau L'Orange, and just an extension of the fun and community and creativity and love that has been such a profound part of our lives here. Ori will always be able to visit this magical home (his exact place of birth!) and to hear the stories of his first eight months of life from those who watched him grow day by day.

We love you. We are going to miss living with you. But we are not going to miss being with you because we'll be over all the time and you will be over all the time. So there.

Yael, Addie, and Sproutus Maximus