The Anomie household is getting settled into our new house. However, the Anomie is home alone with the Anomic Child all week, as the Anomic Husband is back in the Old Town for work and to take the licensing exams required to be an official Landscape Architect (as opposed to the fake one that's been working in the business for the last 9 years since graduating with the degree).
OMG has it really been nine years since we graduated from college?!?
Moving day also happened to fall on Anomic Child's sixth birthday, and our 5th wedding anniversary. Ah, the milestones. As you can see from the picture, she was very tired that day. We all were.
I still am.
On the bright side, we will all sleep in relative peace, since the Official Dementor Inspection we ordered before moving in (which comes standard with termite inspections on all new houses didntchaknow?) turned up negative.
NO dementors in this new house, by gods!!!
However, she did get up on the first night we were alone together and come downstairs to see what the noise was (I was running a bath). She thought maybe Daddy was LYING about the dementors.
I need to draw up some official dementor inspection paperwork to frame and put in her room.
This new neighborhood seems great. It's a new experience for me: we've been here for 5 days, and:
- 3 sets of neighbors have dropped by to say hi (one of which was a teenage boy who came by of his own accord to introduce himself since his parents weren't home at the time)
- one neighbor came by with her daughter and asked if Anomic Child would like to come over to her house and play for a while (YES! YES SHE WOULD!!!!)
-another neighbor offered to bring us lasagna on the evening after our first move (but we went out to celebrate the birthday and anniversary)
- there is a neighborhood picnic Saturday and we are invited
- there is a neighborhood yard sale, and we got a flyer to join in
- there was NOT - I repeat NOT - a series of police cars trying to persuade a man on the street showing his wee-wee to passersby to GET IN THE CAR
I think I'll like it here.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Getting settled
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2 comments:
Oh, anomie- I lived in a neighborhood like that once and I miss it terribly. It was amazing -- all that neighborly-ness and insanely helpful. I'm so so envious. I am determined that when I buy my next house I am going to have it again, if I have to shovel others' driveways without being asked, offer to housesit repeatedly, and deliver muffins to every house on the block 8 times the first year.
Awesome. Your new neighborhood sounds great.
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