sunshine and lollipops

After a two-day jaunt to my old haunting grounds for a quick conference, I'm back home frantically cleaning to keep two steps (well, okay, one step) ahead of the fruit flies. Its that time of year. The biggest news is that we may have found our "forever house", but I don't want to jinx it until the papers are signed. There have been so many start-and-stops that it is wearing on my nerves. Suffice to say it checks all the boxes, including a tree-lined grassy driveway, acreage, fruit trees and ocean view, within a 10 km radius of town. This is why I like living in a village. We can actually afford this house here, and I'm pretty freaking excited.