My New Las Vegas Lifestyle

I sit here, at 5 pm, Pacific time of course, lounging poolside and writing this post. We are thankfully shaded here, and I hate to admit to you that is pool is much more plush than ours will be, once built. But then again, we're staying in a million-dollar condo high-rise, so I guess there should be perks.
The kids are playing eith 5 other kids in the large pool, various ages and ethnicities, but all getting along as if they'd been friends for years, or at least weeks. Kids are remarkable in this, the ability to find friends and forget friends easily.
Our day started rough, despite my pep talk. Prayer would have been a better start, but ad it's not on any of my lists, it was forgotten. Kids woke too early, i even earlier. I had a dream about old friends, which seems the pattern. Last night it was a Colorado football game with Jolie and the girls from League. Colorado, I thought. It's not even in the Big 12!
I did manage to work. More than I thought when I added it all up. Kate is still impatient (I know where she got it) and restless, and who can blame her. It's like the first day of the next month of our lives... Too temporary to be more or less.
Stu is gone overnight. Adjusting to his schedule seems totally different when my expectations are of the perfect, nuclear family. I'll readjust when life gets more of a pattern.
We went to a park, which took me at least twice as much drive time as it should have because I was trying to find other parks, but ended up back up in Highlands, near our house and the school. Got a call from the school nurse about immunizations missing (need a pediatrician already???), so ran up there. Good thing is we ran into Sam's new teacher totally at random (thanks God), and she gave Sam a big hig and was great. Yea!

We went to a mall. Boring, like most malls, and with expensive food and no Hallmark store. (Do people still buy cards at hallmark stores?) Ended up at CVS instead.
Registered for library cards. Our first official Vegas identification. Establishing quiet reading time each day for the kids' benefit, to balance out screen time and for my own peace.
People here are fantastic. Really, I do not exaggerate. Even the hoopty 20-somethings in the building are nice to the kids and smile or introduce their dogs (sniff sniff). I'm so glad to find this aspect of Vegas totally different than Albuquerque. Hallelujah.
Now here, poolside, typing and reading a book. Bliss. They are working out their energy and can be as loud as they want without splitting my ears! Later dinner, and more glamourous unpacking. Beautiful.