Walking Backwards

Argh! I am having so many problems with my neighbors. They came over again to yell at us for parking next to the curb between our two houses. Mark came to pick up Travis and had driven away before this woman left my porch. I, of course, bitched back at how they were behaving with total animosity and have been since the day we moved in (they came over the day we were moving to complain that the moving van wouldn't fit in our driveway). In the end I realized that she didn't care what I had to say, so I just gave up. The funny part is that she asked us to move the car even though no one was going to park there and she left five minutes later. Grrr, I am secretly (maybe not so secretly) hoping that they move very soon.


Otherwise, this week has gone fairly well. Sadly, our playdate for today was cancelled, but it gave Nicholas and I the chance to hang around the house doing nothing, which is always fun. Yesterday, we went to a pumpkin patch outside of town to get our pumpkins for this Halloween. There was a hayride and animals to pet. Nicholas really enjoyed being out in the country where he could run around like a crazy person. All in all, very fun. I have yet to formulate plans for tomorrow, but I know that Nicholas will have a fit if we don't go outside somewhere. We'll probably end up with a French fry picnic in the park. I have ceased making big plans because, though I want Nicholas to stay on his schedule, it is a week to really relax.


I have now, officially started my Christmas shopping. Joe and I sat down to make our holiday plans as to where we are going to go (Thanksgiving here and Christmas in Louisiana) and discovered that we have over thirty people to buy gifts for. Damn Joe and his prolific family. We are also traveling a lot in December and I don't want to end up at a mall anytime after Thanksgiving, so here I am starting an unheard of two months early. I'm not crazy am I. It feels crazy.