All good things...

You may have noticed we've been a little quiet over here.  It's been cold and the normal things in life (work, school, laundry, groceries, dishes, rinse, and repeat) are keeping us busy.  

We also have some unexpected news: we're moving back to the U.S. in April.  

In 2007 when we were preparing to move here, we really thought we'd be here many years.  We sold the house, the cars, the electronics, 90% of the stuff we had (which we haven't missed - we clearly had too much stuff).  We came here and put Little Geek Girl in a Swiss kindergarten, got our Swiss driving licenses, took German lessons, learned to (partially) read the free newspapers.  We really came to love the tradition of Zvieri (coffee and snacks at 1600).

But then a really good opportunity came up back in the United States for Zürich Daddy Geek.  He didn't apply at first, but I pointed out that he would always regret it if he didn't, so he applied.  (Four of his close friends also told him the same thing...) To our surprise, he was offered the job, so we had to decide.  It made for an interesting Christmas and early New Year.

In the end, we decided to take it.  Professionally, it's a once-in-a-career chance for ZDG.  It's also a good choice for me, and LGG has now recovered from bursting into tears when we told her.  She represented what we all felt: we've been here just a year, so we're pretty sad about the decision to leave this beautiful country and different pace of life, but it's too good an opportunity to pass up.  (We know this is true: ZDG's boss told him he'd be crazy not to take it.)

Unfortunately we made the decision too late to give three month's notice for our apartment.  We're still leaving, but if we don't find someone to take over our apartment, we're responsible for the rent until the end of September.  GULP.  So, the apartment is spruced up, my German is getting better fielding calls from people who want to view the place, and all of our fingers and toes are crossed that we'll get a call saying someone has signed a contract.

And just for the record: Zvieri will be imported to the US!