Spring Into Summer

We are into summer already here. Olivia spent today doing summer kid things: playing in the neighbor kid's sprinkler, jumping on our trampoline, eating Popsicles. She skipped her afternoon nap and collapsed in our bed after dinner, spent.

People keep asking how I am settling in and truth be told, I don't know that we are. Aaron goes off to work each day for 10 -12 hours and Olivia and I fill the days with a little of this and that. A bike ride to the grocery store, swimming at the Y, too many videos of Shaun the Sheep.

I have had few conversations with people here, being that I am mostly chaperoning a 2 year-old. Still, a surprising number of people have managed to insert the word "Yankee" into an otherwise innocuous sentence. It's done in a "just kidding y'all" way, but I end up reacting internally like "yeah, put it there pal!" Less Yankee and more Philadelphia.

The house is still a hot mess. You'd have thought we'd just arrived yesterday rather than 3 weeks ago. It makes me crazy and unsettled to have it this way, but it is flat-out boring for Olivia to watch me unpack, so we end up playing rather than getting things in order.

The last two nights I read a whole book. It was a great feeling to have that head space back and to realize that Olivia is reaching a stage where I can back off a bit and regain some of my old muscles.

So what do I think of Charlotte so far? Couldn't tell you. Our little patch of green is good for the kid and the dog, so we'll start with that and see where it leads.