Home, Where the Heart Is

yesterday wa long and good. it felt like i was in high school again and dependent on my parents to move around the city.
which is sometimes an ok thing.

i met my mom at the doctor where he didn't really give us a diagnosis or anything. he just basically said the keep on watch.
i then got two shots (and two sore arms!)

and then my mom took me over to the neighborhood where they are moving. it's over by oak lawn for those who know dallas.
we decided to eat at cosmic cafe which we had both heard GREAT things about. but we were both incredibly disappointed. mom and i both recieved upset stomachs and yucky tasting food. i don't think i will ever go back there. it could've had something to do with my thai-food-food-posioning and the similiar flavours and smells at cosmic cafe. it was just gross.

after that we went to go see the new house. i love it. it's the same square footage as our house in plano but for some reason it seems smaller. there is no backyard really- just a patio. but the detailing (like the checkerboard wood floors) is amazing. my room/the guest room has a vaulted ceiling, balcony, and jacuzzi tub. they plan on moving either when our plano house sells or after the holidays. whichever comes first.

i took a nap on the study at the new house (there is no furniture there yet) while mom talked to a neighbor. a later found out that their other neighbor has a cat named Abby. Abby is a boy but Abby's owner didn't know that until after she named him Abby. She also walks Abby on a lease. It's a good cat, I got to meet him later.

After the nap, mom and I went up to Whole Foods where we walked around both feeling too sick from lunch to get really into the grocery shopping experience. She got some really good blueberry muffins for all of us in the morning and some coffee and chocolate macaroons. I love macaroons.

Paul met us at the new house and mom and I got ready for dinner. Then Greg drove in from FW and met us there too. For dinner we went to Watels, Allen Street Cottage. It's a place we have looked at in regards to the wedding. At first we wanted it to be the wedding reception site. But it was just too small to fit everyone. but the rehearsal dinner would have a smaller number of people and Watels has the perfect atmospher and cuisine for a nice rehearsal dinner. So we ate a fantastic meal and talked to the manager about the logistics of having a rehearsal dinner there. The only thing he really said that would cause us to shy away from booking it was that he didn't know if they would still be in business b/c having a restaurant in Dallas is hard. SO GO EAT THERE.

Today the Plano house is being shown at 2. So Greg and I will pack our bags and straighten our rooms to make the house more sell-able. The new place already feels like home. Probably b/c I have moved out of my current home. and while it is still "home" I know that in 1 year, 1 month, and 17 days I will have new home. A home that I have been waiting for even when I wasn't really thinking about it (I have never been one of those girls that planned her future in retrospect to a husband). And because I know that home is where I will be in almost one year and that home is really where my family is- I don't think the move will be that hard. There are a lot of good memories here (in Plano). Tons. But I think we are all ready for a new chapter to begin.