Neighbors

We met our first neighbor today, the one who lives right next door in a house built by the same builder who did ours. I was just thinking yesterday about how it'd be nice to meet our neighbors soon. I didn't know if people still greeted new neighbors with welcome baskets and such in this day and age, but apparently they do! She rang our doorbell this afternoon, said hello, and gave us a very nice loaf of homemade bread (I'm assuming it's homemade since it was all wrapped up in tinfoil and had a nice card attached with some ribbon). We haven't tried the bread yet, but that might be tonight's midnight snack :)

So it's a married couple with two kids next door. They're also in the process of adopting a third child--how cool is that? They've got two cute little dogs too, both white, a Maltese and a Shih Tzu. They're really yippy though, which detracts from the cute factor. Anyway, looking forward to getting to know these neighbors since we're off to such a friendly start.

The big errands for today were to pick up my car and a run to Home Depot. My car arrived unexpectedly this morning, a full 3 days early. It was a nice surprise cuz I was getting sick of not having my own wheels. W. just says that I need to learn how to drive his stick-shift car; I maintain there's a reason God made automatics. As for Home Depot...how do you spend $300 on just random odds and ends? It's not like we need to do major renovations or even paint anything in the house, yet somehow we managed to put a good dent tonight into the gift cards we collected as wedding gifts (thanks all!).

Oh, and our brand new washer and dryer got delivered today too! The things you get excited about when you own a home. They're front-loading, energy star machines so that we can be environmentally friendly. Apparently we got top-of-the-line Whirlpool models--this is what happens when you let the hubby make the buying decisions on new toys :) Just kidding, babe, great job! The plumber comes tomorrow so hopefully we can finally get some laundry done.

We also learned a new house fact today: the front doorbell chimes twice (ding-dong!) while the back doorbell only chimes once (ding!). Ah, yes, we're really settling in now! :)