We got our final shipment of stuff. It’s all here. Which means we are drowning in boxes. I can’t make the usual progress I usually do unpacking becuase of All. The. Paper. My goodness, the packers wrapped EVERYTHING. Yesterday I even unwrapped a small plastic container of cat treats. It took forever to unwrap it. Why did they wrap cat treats?!

I am trying to make progress but it is slow and painful. What I really need is a solid week of nothing but straight house unpacking. But I already promised the boys co-op and park day this week. There is just not enough hours in a day. Also, and I know this sounds entirely spoiled and juvenile, but it is SO NICE here and I want to be outside playing and chasing balls and hunting for snakes and lizards and drawing flowers. I don’t want to be stuck inside doing grown-up work. Blah. Phooey.

 Yesterday we rewarded all of our hard work with a trip to the Lucky Cafe which is a local Vietnamese joint. Can I just say I LOVE having a ‘local Vietnamese joint’? And the Lucky Cafe isn’t the only one in town! In our old neighborhood, it was a good 1+ hours to get to a Vietnamese restaurant. Most of us ordered Pho and it was to DIE for. We have tons left and I drool at the thought of eating it. But Tony ordered something else - beef over rice - and when she brought it out I immediately recognized it as a dish that my ex-mother-in-law (who is Vietnamese) used to make practically daily. The smell alone was such a flash-back, it made me so happy but the taste….oh the taste! I thought I was in heaven! I was never able to find this particular dish in Vietnam, ironically, and I hadn’t had it for like 8 years prior to last night so it was a major major treat for me. I’m dying to go back today for an entire dish of my own.

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