she’ll be two tomorrow. hard to believe. i can’t imagine my days without her, and just two years ago she wasn’t here quite yet. she’s tough to capture on camera these days, but i was persistent today. very persistent.
she’s a lover of all things breakfast related so there is a breakfast birthday celebration in store for her tomorrow.
there is a shabby looking little former gas station up the street from us. i never paid much attention to it until I heard they had a pretty interesting beer and wine selection. really? tonight i stopped in.
but oh, the beer is only the beginning. you know when something is so interesting that you want to call it an experience? i didn’t realize bait and tackle and craft beers go together but they do. and stuffed (taxidermy style) squirrels perched on top of a wine rack? yes, indeed. and if you are thinking that browsing through all that wine and beer and squirrel might make you want to play a board game, you’re in luck because perched next to the squirrel was a stack of board games for sale. so inexplicably strange but we’ll be back.
i hope your april was a happy one.
we all now know that mullet will not eat honey baked ham or hot dogs, but the boys got to fish for a bit and were happy. seagulls, though, will devour both ham and hot dogs.
today was also the 10th anniversary of our first date. the week or so before omar had asked me out on a date. in his grandma’s van. with a license plate that said “buckle up with jesus” (that was the clincher). i’m glad i said yes.
little girl loves a good cookie. so does her mama, but i was too full from the largest sandwich ever eaten by man or woman to enjoy these rather brightly colored macaroons. there is always tomorrow. i love vacation.
the boys took off on the train today. if you were to ask about their favorite part of the trip it would be a toss up between the ice cream in the dining car and the pack of tic-tacs grandma slipped into their backpacks.
she prefers the colored side facing her so she can see it, and she’ll protest (loudly) if you try to assist her with the right way to wear the mask. but she’s got the hoo hoo-ing part down.
i got up from bed this morning and caught the tail end of asher giving an excited explanation of something to omar. something that i thought had to do with jesus and darth vader. and then omar confirms it, “yes, asher, that is an excellent way to connect the bible and star wars.” nice. (but perhaps not quite as awesome as this bible time)
fear not, we’re doing our due diligence and explaining to them in succinct four/five year old fashion the gnostic trap that is star wars theology. you know, just in case you were concerned.
