Merry Christmas

From all of us.

Happy Birthday, Pops.

Today is my Dad's birthday. I hope he will not mind if I tell people he's sixty. Sixty! I will add here that my parents still seem so young and lively, which is probably why I have never feared getting older.

I didn't have work today, so I tagged along with Jen, Jules, and Jack for a surprise birthday visit to Dad at the post office. We stopped at Mid's to pick up some treats to take him.

Getting ready to yell, "Happy Birthday, Pap!"

Pappy lets Jules play with the stamps.

She stamped me with a "First Class" (my request in lieu of "Perishable" ) and a Revloc postmark.

Then she stamped Jack. Sorry, Laura.

It was lots of happy birthday fun.

And a Happy New Year, too.

Merry Christmas to all...

Merry Christmas, everyone. I got a Trapper Keeper. Yeah, that's right. I'm super stoked.

Decorating...

Pajamas x (Twinkle lights + hot cocoa + Amy Grant's Christmas albums + sparkly ornaments + chocolate peppermint candles+ baking cookies) = Merry merry merry!

Indolence

Today I slept 'til 11, went out for brunch, came home and took a nap, and then went out for dinner. An episode of Project Runway made its way in there and that's the closest I came to work.

Happy Labor Day.

Four years old.

Happy birthday to my sweet little pumpkin.

Photo credit: Kristen Gibson

I'm doing 90 down Memory Lane.

I enjoy my iPad in many ways. I read books on it. I fall asleep to my Pandora Stations on it. I watch movies on airplanes with it. I even keep Julia occupied by letting her snap virtual bubble wrap on it. But all of that is nothing compared to my new obsession:


Cousins! It is just like the arcade game Pap had in the Rec Room for us! It plays the songs, the pretzels are worth 700 points, it dings at 10,000 when you get your bonus life, the ghosts stay really long when you get to the first Chase board. It is amazing.

I don't want to do anything or go anywhere. I just want to sit hunched over my coffee table and play like we used to when we had all-night tournaments.

Goings on...

Trivia Night

We had such fun, but we ended up (I think) in 4th place. This means no gift certificate for delicious appetizers next week, but we maintain a five point lead in the overall tournament. This is a pretty sweet lead considering the top three teams each week are usually separated by a point each. Brian was sick this week and didn't go. Perhaps he's the magic that holds us together. But Eric sat in and was his usual melodramatic self.

Cake Night

Tomorrow I start my first cake decorating class. That is, if the weather holds. (This morning, when I left my garage, the alley glistened like a luge track. It was madness, but a fair price to pay for a two-hour delay.) Hopefully, I will learn to make roses out of frosting. That is my chief goal. Photos to follow.

Much Happiness

We recently learned that sweet Wes will be getting a little brother or sister. He's going to be such a good big brother. Kris and I are heading there this weekend for much fun and delightfulness and a total lack of Zack's famous mojitos in honor of this news.

Happy New Year, in cookie dough

Image from the New York Times.