what I love about Fridays

some may say I'm a bit of a dreamer
imaginary vacations, meals, plans for the weekend

What I love most about Fridays is the dreaming
a whole weekend filled with nothing but time
wondering how will we spend it?

Beer Tasting at the shop just up the street?
     and bringing some yummy choices home
A fire to enjoy the chilly evening?
     so the logs may be a little damp, thats what lighter fluid is for right?
     the ingredients for smores are calling my name
House Projects?
     cause the list is never ending
     cutting shelves to get ready to paint
     yardwork, cause with the rain the roots will be easy to pull up right
Celebrating with friends?
     love first birthday parties!
Farmers Market browsing?
     and perhaps procuring produce for canning

sniff sniff

a hazard of working with children
the germs, oh the germs!

For the last 6 weeks I feel like I've been sick every other week
First a cold, knocked me out for a weekend

Then the stomach bug thats been going around
That was not my best 24 hours

Then on Thursday I felt the sniffles coming
Upped my vitamin C intake
Drank copious amounts of hot tea

And then my man caught it
Oh the humanity

Beer breaks turned into to "medicine" breaks
OJ for the vitamin C, whiskey (or rum) to kill off the germs

a big step

As excited as we were for buying a house

and leaving the trashy neighbors

who not only let their kiddos play in the parking lot

but have the audacity to defend their parking lot playing rights 

     Seriously, if someone in a motorized vehicle is yelling at your kids to get out of the way

     maybe you should too

     instead of declaring, how dare you yell at my children?!?!

And having a space to make our own

goodbye faux wood trim that's really made of plastic

goodbye linoleum that has been super glued to the floor (with not so super glue)

goodbye condo association that hates nature

     love my dusty miller plant that over wintered for 3 straight years

who cares if you're a bit gangly at the edges

and of course I dug up a bit to bring to our home

We took a moment to say goodbye to our first place

where we fought

     over dishes, and vacuuming and a certain someone's ridiculously busy winter schedule

where we dreamed

     of awesome vacations and future homes and our lives together

 where we settled into ourselves and our relationship

Closing a chapter in our lives
Goodbye Apartment
Helloooooo awesome new house!