...and the livin' is easy

great news! paul officially started his new job yesterday!
two men that are opening a wine store, were looking for someone to help them with the opening and to manage the store, too. our friend, jen, told them about my wonderful husband. he is in heaven as he is helping them order their inventory and doing a lot of tasting!
so…the beauty of it is that he won’t be working late hours anymore as the wine store closes at 9:00. AND…the best part is that the store is closed on sundays…so we get to do our farmers’ market trip together on sunday mornings and then spend the day together cooking and enjoying each others’ company. hee!

this was my first week back after my two week break. the shorties were dragging from the heat and from knowing that all of the other kids in the community are out of school. (our school is a year-round school). it is hard for them to look through the classroom window and see a mother drag a baby pool down the front stoop, onto the sidewalk and fill it with water so her babies can splash away the hot Baltimore heat. it kills them to hear the bells of the ice-cream truck drive down presstman street during our afternoon writing time. next time it happens, i am going to surprise them and take them down to get something cold and sugary…of course, it is purely selfish as I would totally dig eating a push-up or a nutty-buddy cone. yum!

i love driving home and seeing all of the shorties on their front steps, squirting each other with water guns, shrieking and eating popsicles. I love how all of the neighbors sit in lawn chairs on the sidewalks, talking, playing chess, and fanning themselves while they catch up on gossip and happenings.

unfortunately, a “happening” that is being discussed is the fact that one of our pre-school students contracted scabies and has spread it to other students in the school. Yikes! even more unfortunate, one of MY shorties is one of the unlucky ones. Sooooooo…I have been feeling itchy…eek! I am pretty sure that I don’t have them…but it is a gross thing to worry about. also, it doesn’t help my quest in trying to get pregnant, you know? It is hard to come home and try to be intimate (because I am fertile right now…I know, I know…T.M.I.) when your husband is aware that you may have little bugs burrowing under your skin at that very moment…

So, on this beautiful, stellar Friday, I am going to rub some hydrocortisone cream on any suspicious areas, pour some delicious, iced green tea with honey and go pull some weeds from my garden.

Happy weekend, beautiful people.