Moving!

It's been a while since my last post, and I thought I'd explain why: we're moving!

Travels with Tessie World Headquarters is relocating from our small yet cramped Pasadena apartment to an actual house in an undisclosed location. Tessie will soon have her own room, a backyard in which to play, and even her own bathroom complete with Tessie-sized wash basin. We will also be near a large park with playground equipment and a baseball diamond for when she gets a little older.

(She may have found an interest that supersedes baseball: horses. Uh-oh. Last night we watched Red Sox highlights on the computer again, but before finishing, Tessie said, "All done baseball. Horses, please." She likes watching horse videos on YouTube, which are easy to find; the hard part is sorting through the "breeding" and "slaughtering" videos to find the schmaltzy and amateurish easy-listening music video paeans to equine beauty and grace that Tessie seems to most enjoy. Sometimes it's hard having a girl.)

The truck arrives tomorrow, so we've been stuffing all of our worldly possessions into cardboard boxes, which are filling up the apartment and making it seem even smaller. We'll spend the long weekend gathering the things left behind and cleaning the old place, as well as setting up the new, so it may again be a while before the next post.