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I spent the holiday weekend *immersed* in family. Thanksgiving was lovely. Found out I have a new niece or nephew on the way (which I believe I posted about on Thanksgiving itself). Spoke with my uncle and cousins at length about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They all seem to be doing very well.
My birthday celebration was small - and filled with wee relatives playing endlessly with blocks, hide-and-go-seek, and romping merrily on the beds my parents bought for the girls so they can Stay Over at Grandma and Grandpa's. G very gleefully whispered The Secret to me (mommy's going to have a baby!) as we built wonderful things with the colored blocks and the plain wooden oak blocks. B brought the bear she built at build-a-bear-workshop and kept making it sing the birthday song at me. It was a little odd that a mottled pink bear with embroidered butterflies burst out with the tinny deep man's voice chanting "happy birthday" to scratchy music.
M and K and the kids gave me a lovely wind chime. My parents started the fund for the serger I want to get for myself (it is a five thread overlock machine). Gwen gave me a hand-made bracelet (very pretty) and later we went to the movies and saw "Enchanted."
This movie is so cute! A very fluffy film geared towards kids, but that adults will enjoy because it has all the best disney-princess cliches without going too far into meanness. It starts off animated (hand drawn animated!) and the wicked queen sends the princess-to-be to "where there are no happily ever afters" - also known as Times Square, NY. And there all turn into live people (of course). The music and lyrics were written by Alan Menkin and Stephen Schwartz - both brilliant in their own rights. The foppish prince was delightfully played by James Marsden (who we last saw in Hairspray, but is most widely known for his work in the X-Men movies as Cyclops).
And YouTube has a number of the musical numbers... my favorite is the Central Park scene, because it is just so perfect. Here: That's How You Know
All in all, it was a delightful day.
Now I am gearing up for my eight-day stay in Vancouver. I'll leave tomorrow and be home December 7th. But no worries! I'll be online almost all the time!
My birthday celebration was small - and filled with wee relatives playing endlessly with blocks, hide-and-go-seek, and romping merrily on the beds my parents bought for the girls so they can Stay Over at Grandma and Grandpa's. G very gleefully whispered The Secret to me (mommy's going to have a baby!) as we built wonderful things with the colored blocks and the plain wooden oak blocks. B brought the bear she built at build-a-bear-workshop and kept making it sing the birthday song at me. It was a little odd that a mottled pink bear with embroidered butterflies burst out with the tinny deep man's voice chanting "happy birthday" to scratchy music.
M and K and the kids gave me a lovely wind chime. My parents started the fund for the serger I want to get for myself (it is a five thread overlock machine). Gwen gave me a hand-made bracelet (very pretty) and later we went to the movies and saw "Enchanted."
This movie is so cute! A very fluffy film geared towards kids, but that adults will enjoy because it has all the best disney-princess cliches without going too far into meanness. It starts off animated (hand drawn animated!) and the wicked queen sends the princess-to-be to "where there are no happily ever afters" - also known as Times Square, NY. And there all turn into live people (of course). The music and lyrics were written by Alan Menkin and Stephen Schwartz - both brilliant in their own rights. The foppish prince was delightfully played by James Marsden (who we last saw in Hairspray, but is most widely known for his work in the X-Men movies as Cyclops).
And YouTube has a number of the musical numbers... my favorite is the Central Park scene, because it is just so perfect. Here: That's How You Know
All in all, it was a delightful day.
Now I am gearing up for my eight-day stay in Vancouver. I'll leave tomorrow and be home December 7th. But no worries! I'll be online almost all the time!
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