It’s the first full week of July, and our first actual Hot week of 2010.

Last year, I think our first Hot week appeared some time in April. Oh well. Maybe this summer will creep into October. It’s more likely however that we’ll get another serious winter, with actual snow this time, like in 2008 in the months before Freya’s conception.

Yesterday Christina and I went to Seattle with our babies, to meet up with Ann and her little boy, Luke. We all marched down First Avenue with our strollers toward Pike Place. The market was crammed as usual, I guess to be expected for the year’s first hot day. So I didn’t get to linger over the stalls as I ordinarily would. We instead walked to the adjacent park and sat on the grass. Ann and I nursed our babies in the warm sun. Maybe the first time I have fed Freya outdoors?

Then we walked to Dahlia Bakery on Fourth and Virginia. I seriously wanted to try everything in the store, but ended up just getting a cookie, which was very good. After that we headed up to Nordstrom to take advantage of the very well-appointed mother’s room in the fourth floor lounge. All the kids needed diaper changes.

The whole day I just marveled at the great weather, as if emerging from a long hibernation. I was mesmerized by the sparkling surface of the waves on our way back across the sound.

Today will be the same, maybe hotter, and we need to think of something to do. I know we will take a long walk, go grocery shopping… hmm.

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I resubscribed to satellite radio after a four year hiatus, and am finding it much better now. We don’t even turn the TV on unless there is something we’re planning to watch, which really is only one or two shows anyway. Summer is a TV dead zone. Fortunately Mad Men is back in a couple weeks 😀