a man, his tools, and a sandbox...

a new place...

i'm so excited about this...

after 8 years in our little one bedroom apartment...

we're moving.

we're MOVING!

just a few blocks away, to a perfect little fourplex.  we'll have a yard!  while that's definitely the most exciting part of it, almost equally exciting is we'll have our OWN washer and dryer!  i can do laundry WHENEVER I WANT!  WITHOUT QUARTERS!!!  oh...the excitement is uncontainable! 

my mind is constantly going...what colors will we paint?  how will we set everything up?  who's going to be the first to visit and stay in the second bedroom?  how fast can we make vegetables grow?  how much is leo going to LOVE the backyard?!?!?!  

all of that is completely overshadowing the fact that we have to pack.  and have a garage sale.  in the next couple of weeks.

did i mention the yard???

the wee hours...

sometimes i find that i look for things to do in the wee hours of the night.  it's almost as if i have an aversion of going to bed before 1am.  i think it's just that i know it's my quiet time.  the boys are fast asleep, my day is done (there are still dishes in the sink, but hey...the clock says the day is done), and i can do what i want to do.

so here i am...bouncing around to different blogs...looking for a tent...checking out freecycle for the 10th time today...

and it's just so quiet...