The weekend, succinctly

This weekend was all about the baby (yay!) and feeling a bit too suburban for my liking (boo!). We spent way too many hours at Target and Babies R Us fighting our way through the narrow aisles with screaming kids (and their screaming parents). Had a slight breakdown in shock-and-awe of the amount of stuff available for babies as we made our registries and checked them twice. 

Sigh, I have a feeling weekly trips to big-box stores is what the next few years of my life will be like. 

We did product comparisons online for gliders (you know, amped-up rocking chairs) and four-door sedans (to trade in my sporty, 2-door Acura).

Even bigger sigh. 

We mixed paint colors at Home Depot and did more purging of stuff in our office-cum-nursery. Well, The Fella did purging of his stuff, and mine remains to be sorted through, at present, in an overly large plastic bin from the dreaded Target trip. We returned library materials and stocked up on fresh veggies and fruits at the local produce market. And we somehow made time to plant our summer herbs and flowers into new and vintage pots and buckets on our front steps. In between it all, we enjoyed a taste of summer with slices of organic, sun-ripened tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, Greek olives, and of course, fresh sweet basil straight from our concrete garden.

It's just a shame we didn't get time to check out the slightly creepy neighborhood carnival which set up camp this weekend on a small patch of land between the old church and the Catholic school. After this weekend, coulda really used a funnel cake, or two, from the local carnie.