Oops missing a day

I took this picture yesterday at the naturey place near S´s school. It's really quite pretty there and I´d definitely love to explore those hills if I could.

I said in another post that I was bound to capture a baby milestone in the 30 days of photos and I wasn't wrong, and the other thing that I knew would happen was that I would miss a day of taking photos. Technically I have all day to put up a photo but the thing is the photos are shot the day before and posted after midnight or thereabouts so today I didn´t take any photos. I have a ton of extra photos from other days but that's not going to help me in my creative pursuits and I am just going to be cheating myself if I don´t make the effort to follow my creative challenges to their end (artistic integrity!). That´s okay. It just wasn´t a day I wanted to be with my camera. We all have days like that.

I´ll just catch up on me...

I have a new French friend as I mentioned in my friendship post and I really like her. Sara´s got a boy in Seann´s school and so we hooked up by doing a play date for the boys at the park (she and I got stalked at the park, remember) and we have been doing a lot together ever since. I see her at least three times a week now. Both our husbands work for The Company and in fact we all travelled together to France on the same airplane at Christmas but unfortunately we weren´t friends yet back then. We also both have boys with language learning problems. Her son Thomas doesn´t speak well either and will be needing a lot of speech therapy because like Little S he speaks nearly a full two years behind his age. And get this... the other day she shocked me by saying they are moving back to France this July! They haven´t told anyone yet so she swore me to secrecy but the coolest thing is that they are going back to suburban Paris so we´ll be "kind of" neighbors in the future depending on where we end up living. It's so nice to have a friend right after losing one, and especially one that is so easy to talk to and that I get to take with me. Sara is like talking to French family and she and I have a lot in common as I found out when I spied an embroidery project spread out on the table at her house. She´s even promised to take me around to a few of the hip craft stores in Paris when we get settled in. I will definitely love that.

Seb will be home for nearly eight days on Tuesday and I will be numb by then because it´s kind of like getting all dressed up for a date and the the date is late so you get all keyed up because "is he gonna show?" and all that is running through your head, and then eventually you get grumpy about it and then eventually you just sort of don´t care and fall asleep in your black sequined evening dress and smush all the feathers on your pretty hat, which is where I am now. Husband? What husband?Ohhhhhhh HIM. Uh yeah send him on over I guess.

I´ll actually be excited to see him I suppose, especially because I´ll have someone to clean my pool and cut my grass (mexican gardner=unreliable) and someone to hold my ginormous baby from time too time and more importantly someone to watch two kids while I go get my hair cut ! How do single moms get hair cuts? I guess they have the grandmother factor which is something we desperately need here. I have even considered faking passing out or having a brain hemmorage or something on the webcam so my mom will come to Mexico to visit for a few weeks, but guess what? She probably still wouldn´t come, she´d just say "oh honey you look really busy so we´ll chat later...okay sweetheart kiss those babies, byyyye!"

Anyone have a grandmother they´d like to rent out? She´ll probably need a passport if she isn´t Mexican.