What do I do now?

G has made some little friends in our neighborhood in the past couple of weeks. Yet another perk of living on base, so much easier to get to know the neighbors. There are 3 little girls who are all 4 and usually they play outside while I watch from the front porch and read or mediate the little arguments. The other little girls roam more freely, going from house to house, but G is still too young for me to turn her loose. Anyway, today one of the girls came over to see if she could play but her mom wanted her inside because its so hot. So, G is at her first playdate at someone else's house without me! I am going to go get her before lunch. I'm not sure what to do with myself!!! I considered a shower but what fun is that? Any suggestions? :-) Maybe I'll just veg out on the couch! I think Designed to Sell is on...

By the way, the mom is a cartographer. How cool is that!?! I love me some maps!

The girls a few nights ago

Also, I'm trying to come up with a new design and NAME for the blog. I don't want Baby #2 to feel slighted because the title was MMG and Me. So I'm trying some stuff out...bear with me.

Roughing it...

Our new place on base

Kitchen/dining (please ignore the stuff)


Living room (there will not be curtains hung, most pics will not go up, decorating will be minimal for our brief stay -- SOOOO, ignore all the blank walls and icky metal mini-blinds)

So there are a few things about living on base that I love...
-walking to the playground
-walking to the pool
-J being home 5 minutes after he leaves work
-running my AC without feeling guilty about the bill

But the house is a bit smaller that our old house and offers a few challenges...
-there is no sprayer on the kitchen sink (I thought that would only be an issue in England!)
-the living room is a little tight when G's toys are spread out everywhere
-there are no drawers in the bathrooms (I do not like leaving my toothbrush on the counter)
-the showerhead don't have near the umph that our old one did

I'm sure that at any given moment I could add to these lists. But this biggest issue of all is our dryer. I should actually say "lack of" a dryer. We sold our washer/dryer with our house which was a blessing. They were NOT in good shape and we wanted to get new when we moved anyway. But, I discovered while I was scouting for new ones that the dryers in Las Vegas usually hook up to gas, not electricity. What?!? I'm from the midwest, we rarely do gas anything in our houses! Anyway, this left us with a bit of a conundrum. So, we bought a washer (which I like so far...our clothes are visibly cleaner) but no dryer. We can't get an electric dryer for base housing to use for 5 months (only 4 now!) then buy a gas dryer when we get to Vegas. Bummer. So, I have no dryer. I am hanging all our clothes. It is not only time consuming but you can't do a "quick" load. If I want a certain shirt, I have to allow a whole day for drying time. Its too humid here for a clothesline, plus the last time I dried something outside there was an unfortunate incident. But, even worse than the time it takes is the fact that my clothes are all crusty feeling. Oh, and the towels are even worse! We need to look into renting a dryer for the rest of our time here but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. It is a MUST before Baby 2 makes her appearance because I still remember all the spit-up and blow-outs that caused us to use 3 to 4 (or 5 or 6) outfits every day. Anyway, since we're talking house stuff, I included a few shots of our new digs.

Last but not least, the laundry room with a LONELY washer and a sad little drying rack