Rambling On

Ok, it's late in the afternoon on Monday, and now we're relaxing. The kids have been playing in the backyard for hours now. It's good for them. Our boxes are still not all unpacked, but we'll get to them. I put more pictures up on the walls and Eric set up a composter in the back yard today. Yard waste is absolutely banned from the garbage! This is good, it's better for the environment, but we had to adjust. As I've mentioned before, people around here take recycling much more seriously than what we were used to. I brought a big bag of aluminum cans to Wegman's and got five cents each for them. We had breakfast at Denny's this morning, the four of us. It was nice to sit together, talk about things, etc. We've been much better about doing that at dinner time, too. In our condo, we'd gotten rid of the dinner table due to space issues, so we're liking having a dinner table again. The party in Whitney Point yesterday went well. The girls really enjoyed being around other kids, I think, and are looking forward also to starting school and really beginning to meet more people and making more friends. I heard Sophie whisper to Alissa in the backseat on the way home from Jessica's, "Hey Alissa, did you make any new friends?" We met our neighbors who live in back of us, seem like a really nice family-two kids, one boy around Alissa's age and a girl, an almost-grown-up teenager. I'm trying to savor my last few days of being "off of work"-I start work August 20th. Anyway, bye for now.