The Adventures of 4 Californians in Massachusetts

Hello Family and Friends! I'm glad to finally get this thing started. I feel as though every day has been the length of a novel, but I will give you a brief synopsis of the last two weeks.
Moving 3,000 miles with two little girls, setting up a home from scratch, getting to know a brand new city with strange traffic signals and the occasional unposted street name, learning to grocery shop without a car, going back to work, living out of suitcases until we can get furniture, pizza places that don't deliver after 10PM, and "what's with all the trees?!!"....has left me very little space for thought or culture shock.
I put pictures of Clara and Roses first, because I knew Gramma and Papa would be uninterested in abundant trees and historic buildings without the beautiful grandkids front and center! The camera was hiding in one of our suitcases for a while, so I've got a lot of catching up to do. This post will mostly be pictures for now. I hope to give smaller, more frequent updates. I've got many picture layouts already planned, and my head won't stop its internal monologue for the journaling. I made sure to take photos of the Post Office for Dad, a Victorian home for Mom, the local Starbucks, and our favorite bookstore (one of many in this tiny town).There's a steepled church on every block, a couple of old -old- cemeteries, and Emily Dickinson is ubiquitous. There is a large steepled church in the background of a picture of the girls playing at a park; the church is across the street from Emily Dickinson’s home.