sunny sunday

so we closed on the deal for our new house, and i spent most of my thanksgiving weekend painting and scraping and sanding and stuff. on sunday, as i was working on one of the windows in my son's new bedroom, i saw him and my wife out in the front yard. she was talking to our new neighbors, who are also a young couple with a 1-year old. my son and the other kid were walking around in circles on the lawn in their cute little winter coats with fur-fringed hoods. it was a brief moment of levity in an otherwise monotonous day of house-prep work.