1. I leave Jay at my friend’s place for a long play date. She has been looking forward to this a lot.
2. Perfect parking space, right in front of my hairdresser’s.
3. It’s past seven when we park in our driveway. I can’t help feeling relieved we have been away from our house all day.

1. Jay increases the number of books she borrows at the local library for this week from 3 to 4. And I find a brand new Still Alice in English.
2. As Darja opens the door of the yoga room to let some fresh air in, there is cat waiting outside.
3. Jay has recently developed a great interest in shows with amateur family chefs cooking against professionals. We watch one together tonight and it’s really fun!

1. My Sunday morning hike. The old trail seems different every time.
2. Three hours at the public event watching and listening to a very popular group Modrijani, playing national music. Jay liked it, too. And I didn't even want to go.
3. Em’s update. Spent a day in London. I am so happy she could give us a call (and I hate it that her own phone doesn’t work).

1. My sunflower. Bees. Happy.
2. Vanilla ice, hot blueberries and raspberries are a big hit.
3. I spot an episode about the Kirby family travel to India on Travel Channel. We don’t know if there’s a next one or not, but now Jay and I are eagerly waiting for next Saturday.

1. I feel a little lighter afterwards, more reassured. I will be fine. We will all be fine.
2. There is an evening breeze coming down from the forest while we sit in our driveway.
3. We watch videos with The Beatles, Jay and I, just like I promised last night. And she says she likes them.

1. Jay and I glue together another donut box and it is really lovely. Then she runs off to play outside.
2. Amid bathroom cleaning frenzy my phone rings and I know it is Em.
3. At bedtime Jay asks me to read to her from her book about music. She suggests we find the group I once told her about (The Beatles). We read the introduction and then I promise her we will listen and watch them on youtube same time tomorrow.

1. Speaking to Em over the phone after not hearing her voice for 2 days. She is in Level 4 out of 5, one teacher commented on her good pronunciation and she has met great young people from Belgium, Czech Republic and Croatia.
2. They seemed like the kind of people who would change the place a lot. A while later I realize I might just like that.
3. My 4 new cd’s with music from the 80’s.

1. Notebooks with images of lavender, strawberries, chocolate on the cover, scented. There are only few in the big pile of notebooks that I bring home but Jay spots them right away and she is thrilled.
2. A cool breeze from the riverside when I come from around the corner.
3. Jay’s nails with red polish are lovely, just lovely.

1. Coming back from the sun at lunchtime I rinse my hands up to my elbows with really cold water and then let it run for a while on the inner side of my wrists. Cool!
2. Jay’s friend Neža comes over for an afternoon play date, hurray!
3. Today was Em’s last day at her summer job. It was a hard working experience at a local supermarket. I am glad she suggested it and she seems happy to have taken this challenge, too.

1. A free mini croissant with my decaf.
2. My new sunglasses.
3. I catch them in the act at nearly 11 p.m.: Jay telling Em about a series she watched last night at my Mom's, Em listening and asking questions while brushing her teeth, they laugh and make jokes, and don't even acknowledge I am there.

1. The dentist smiles and says there is no problem about not having Em’s health insurance card with us.
2. As I wait looking towards the local park I can see a very little girl from behind, pushing her mommy on the swing.
3. I feel restless even after my yoga class. I clean up the kitchen and vacuum at 10 p.m. Afterwards I feel better.

1. We all wear clothes with floral pattern to church.
2. A short cycling tour at 7 p.m. We make a stop by the river damn, sit on the wooden bench, eat cookies and watch the fisherman in the water.
3. As I sit on the couch and watch the international news review and then the series just like last Sunday, with Jay stretching her legs over mine on my left and Em leaning her head on my right shoulder, I think to myself how indeed this is all that matters and the rest will work out somehow.

1. After lunch we have ice-cream. Lots of ice-cream. One of those that my girls like best, schwarzwald.
2. They seemed like a nice family. Only that I didn’t want anyone in the house that I had so actively participated in constructing, furnishing, decorating over a period of 11 years, not even nice people. But it so happens… I don’t think any new potential buyers will make it as hard for us at the very first ones walking through our dining room, kitchen, girls’ rooms.., looking, commenting. No, I don’t think so. And that is good.
3. I plant another bed of beans in the vegetable garden. They say it is going to rain at night.

1. I get a call from the agency and then I text Em. She rings me a little later and I can hear her joy.
2. We have a nice late afternoon lunch at a downtown restaurant.
3. A train ride home, with air-conditioning this time.

1. Finally, I get into action: I call the tourist agency after not having received any reply to my e-mail in weeks; in the afternoon I walk into their office and have a form filled out; now we wait for the booking confirmation.
2. We have some yummy ice-cream outside Café Evropa downtown Celje.
3. While we stay at Irena’s I get my book back. I am looking forward to re-reading it this summer.

1. I pick some melissa and mint leaves before the rain. Jay helps and enjoys it a lot.
2. Trees, creaking and twisting in the wind. So wild, so beautiful, I can’t help but walk to my vegetable garden again to be a part of it all.
3. Jay took a photo of the heavy clouds outside, amazed by the line on the horizon that they had created. She circles the line on the photo on the ipad screen and writes a comment to it.

1. I don't have any flower pots in our windows this year. But I love looking at others' and the ones on the ground floor flat balcony that I pass in the morning are really beautiful.
2. Jay's face smiling at me through the office window lifts me up. I shut down the computer and leave immediately.
3. I should have known that Em was going to keep the earrings I had bought for myself the moment she sees them… But she says I can borrow them sometimes. And that is a good thing.

1. A cold shower in the morning. Only a few days ago that I started with this and I feel and perform so much better.
2. I am happy to have Em come to yoga with me so that on the way she can share about her working day at the store and her plans for this week.
3. Jay’s mini ponytails to make her less hot at night.

1. When Em says she had told her best friend about our family prior to her Saturday night sleep-over and an embarrassing Sunday lunch I am relieved.
2. In the evening the girls and I watch together the weekly international news review and an episode I really like.
3. As I let down the window roller shutter I see the stars and suggest Em to go out in her pajamas. Jay and I join her moments later. It is a beautiful warm starry night. (I don’t remember ever leaving the house in my pj’s to watch the stars at night. There is a first time for everything.)

1. Our colleague buys lunch. We sit out on the porch of the restaurant and it is really nice and comfortable.
2. The owners are kind and talkative, a happy couple. And the house they want to sell seems like a happy house.
3. I come home late, a long day indeed. A walk would do me good. I spend the evening with my girls instead. My happy hour.