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 4-year-old boy: I want a girlfriend!

Mom: You have lots of time.  When you're older you can have a girlfriend.

4-year-old: I want a girlfriend!

Mom: When you're older.

4-year-old: I want a boyfriend!

Mom: (pause) You can have a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend when you're older, yes.  4-year-olds just have friends.

4-year-old: I want a boyfriend AND a ( ... )

This video about Prop 8 really made me tear up. I wish I'd seen more stuff like it before the vote...  I couldn't get through the whole thing without tearing up at all the happy loving gazes :)

On Sunday we discovered that Central Market in Shoreline now makes flour tortilas in-house, while you watch. We had burritos last night made with tortillas that were about two hours old. Too bad they don't have corn too! As a teenager, my mom and I used to go to a local Mexican market where you could buy handmade fresh corn tortillas. They were ( ... )

The best part of the day was coming home and seeing from the sidwalk near my house a giant, golden, glorious harvest moon.

Edit: Except for the part after that when lumiere came home, too, and smiled and kissed me, and thanked me for the voicemail I left him telling him to look at the moon :)

Sushi at Mashiko's and a coconut-chocolate cupcake from Cupcake Royale, followed by being read to aloud before bed, made for a lovely birthday evening last night. Thank you lumiere!