Walk this way...

So we're in!  And I have to say, my list of "I hope life includes" is mostly coming to fruition.  It's funny how when something IS right, it just kind of instantly makes you feel more calm.  Walking around Sunday morning - just me, Adam, and H - Adam looked at me and asked if everything was alright.  I'd been uncharacteristically quiet and calm.  I simply said, "No, I'm just content."  And nothing could be more true.  It's a fact that some of the realities have not yet set in (like how bad our street will smell tomorrow on trash day or how UN-glorious our walk to work will be when there is a foot of snow on the ground) but all in all, I feel more calm, like I can take advantage of life and control my time so much more.


Here are two snapshots from my (currently) glorious walk to work:

Love Park

Fountain at Logan Square

Other fun discoveries we've made:

• We will HATE the ice cream man by the end of summer.  He comes - no joke - a minimum of 3 times per night.  Thank goodness H doesn't yet know what the constant music is.  She just thinks it's a cool looking truck that drones on and on.  I hope to keep it that way for as long as possible...
• Walking to work is great exercise.  It also cause sweat - therefore I will now not wear a jacket if the temperature is above 55.  Bad news if I do.
• Waiting for buses is a lot like waiting for the train.  If you miss one, you're equally as pissed and it feels like it takes equally as long for the next one.  That being said, the plus of a bus v. a train?  The ride is an 8th of what it was.
• Philly loves it's festivals.  We've become devout readers of Uwishunu and can't get enough of the awesome things our new home has to offer.  While many are free though, it is going to be tougher to keep to our budget than I thought.
• It's harder to get rid of stuff than I thought.  We did purge a TON before we moved.  But I am now finding myself looking at old momentos and finding no room for them but not really knowing how to part with them.  I wonder where the line is between simple living and extremism.

All in all, I have to say that I'm a pretty happy camper.  Although once my inlaws are out, our stuff is away, and H is asleep, I want to really just sit down and think and soak it in.  For now, I'll just bask in the light of one giant step in the very right direction.

he made the world to be a grassy road beneath her wandering feet.  

~ w.b. yeats