I'm enjoying a new guide project. ("Enjoying" is a stretch, but the word adequately conveys that I'm happy to have the work.) My textbook is chugging along, mostly on schedule ( Read more... )

(started Jan 28, 2009, and finished Jan 31, 2009)

Dear Asher,

It’s now only two days until your second birthday. I am rather dumfounded that it is already time for you to turn two, because although I’ve been with you nearly every day of your life, somehow it doesn’t seem like two whole years! You appear every day less like a baby and more like a ( Read more... )

And it was fantastic! Yesterday evening, I could not WAIT to get outta here. And just when I thought I'd go postal for sure and that my friends would be seeing a newscast about my nearest and dearest's violent demise at the hands of their crazed mother, a white Honda pulled up and two angels in black swept me off to dinner with more friends at a ( Read more... )

I lifted this list from http://sacramentorealestatevoice.com/2007/06/28/celebrate-july-4th-in-sacramento-ca/

Cal Expo State Fair will again put on a fabulous display of fireworks beginning at 9:30 p.m…go to the Fair, stay for the show.

Carmichael, Fireworks will display at La Sierra Community Center around 9 p.m.

Citrus Heights Fireworks is held at ( Read more... )

Last year for my birthday, NoNoSays gave me a beautiful pink hydrangea in a 4-inch pot. I planted it in my front yard in a partly shady spot and it has easily quadrupled in size. Its leaves are a charming light green and it’s just beginning to bloom in time for my birthday again.

When I was a little girl, we had a clump of irises in the front yard ( Read more... )

The great Old West "Ghost Town at Sundown" birthday party was last weekend and it ROCKED! It took two solid days to get everything ready and make the place presentable. I had help from Dakini, Parnasus, and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Ian worked his tail off before, during, and after the party.

We had 10 small, charming guests and a few ( Read more... )

Today was the Big Party Day. I do not have enough energy to write about it yet. But I want to record this birthday wish that Lucas received from one of his very best friends in the world. It is perhaps the most wonderful birthday wish ever wished.

From Snow (8 years old) to Lucas on the occasion of his sixth birthday:

“I hope the sun will keep you ( Read more... )

Here's the rootin', tootin' party invitation that went out to Lucas's friends a couple of weeks ago. Today's the big day! From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. we will be surrounded by many, many children wearing cowboys hats!


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