Friday, July 10, 2009

New neighbors

The universal language of little girls....painting toe nails and bubbles.

McKenna (will be nine in April- going into 3rd grade) and Kylie (will be 7 in August- going into 1st grade). They also have a little sister, Mia, who is not shown. Mia (will be 5 in September- going into Kindergarten). The girls live at the end of our Lane (in CA we'd call it a Court or Culd-e-sak). There are ten houses on our Lane. The four across the street from us are lived in by either widows or widowers. There is a very academic oriented/responsible 13 yr. old girl (with a college aged brother- attends Univeristy of Dayton) next door on one side of us and retired folks on the other. Next to them and in between the three girls is a family who also just moved in. Jessica and Andy have two boys, Trent and Dillon. Trent is 3 1/2 and Dillon is 9 months. Jessica is returning to the work force as a teacher (this will be her first year teaching). She's accepted a job in Cincinnati at the reform school. This is a school, who fired the entire staff and is starting from scratch. She will have her work cut out for her, teaching 5th grade social studies (her only class). Next to the Jessica and Andy are the girls and their parents, then next to them is another couple with college aged kids. They seem to keep to themselves. Their license plates indicate they like golf...The widows are Mrs. Minucha (who spends 6 months in India and had 4 children), Mrs. Cucinotta (who had 6 girls), Mr. Fletcher (who seems very elderly and had 10 children) and Margaretta (don't know her last name- who had six children). Did I mention we live down the street from the Catholic Church???? From what Mrs. Cucinotta says, about 30 yrs ago, there were 108 kids in the neighborhood from toddler to middle school. Then, all those kids learned to drive and that was 108 teen drivers in the neighborhood. She is going to be full of stories!!














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