Yesterday started out normal.  I had to go to the shop for my weekly drop off/pick up/get paid meeting, which seemed weird because I'd spent two hours there on Wednesday at the annual Christmas party.  It was a lot of fun; two of my sisters came and MJ showed off her girls who behaved beautifully.  Bananas ate all the chocolate star cookies but she sat on a chair in the back room to eat them, out of reach of anything she could get chocolate finger prints on, then charged through the shop to get another.  This went on till the cookies were gone.

About twenty five of the regular Wednesday stitchers were there, some brought cookies, some brought candy, most brought whatever project they're working on and it was fun.

Thursday was very quiet.  I dropped off my things and then Ginny, Joanne and I talked for about twenty minutes.  Very quiet and low key.

Today, I'm glad that I got very few orders because I don't have time to do a whole lot before Christmas.  I just hope the dry season hasn't already started.

I was on my way to cash my check when Katie called and reminded me that Lucia was having her ladies open house today.  I turned around, went home and put on a clean sweater and headed to Lucia's.  Oh, I sent Ty a birthday email first.

My son turned 28 yesterday.  I can hardly believe it, but don't we feel that way with every one of their birthdays?  Especially the oldest.  I couldn't believe he turned 5, I couldn't believe he turned 12...

What it really comes down to is I can't believe I'm 50.

Anyway, I celebrated Ty's birthday by spending the afternoon in a beautiful old Victorian by Lake of the Isles, eating Christmas fudge and fruit salad, drinking wine and laughing with a bunch of women most of whom I'd never met.  We had a terrific time.

In the middle of the party, I got a call from my own Katie, telling me she had made it safe home from Montana.

Yay!  Kay kay's back in town!

A little while later, my phone rang again and it was my calligraphy client, letting me know she had dropped off a big stack of cards to be addressed.

Yay!  More calligraphy work!

I gave Fran a ride home and on the way, Josie called asking if I could pick her up from school so I swung by and picked her up before we went home to see Kate.

While I was out partying with the ladies, Jay and Zack had taken advantage of the huge sale at Macy's where they ran into our friend Jen, (whom we want Billy to marry, even if she didn't get a big discount, but she does!  How cool is that?) and after that, Zack came back home and hooked our bose sound system up in the tv room.  It sounds fantastic!  We'd had it in the basement for years, because that's where our biggest screen was when we got it for Christmas.  But the basement room isn't really configured for the bose to work the way it's designed to; the sound flew right up the basement stairs to the kitchen.

The tv room on the other hand, now has surround sound and it's pretty cool.

Zack wasn't home when Josie and I got there after school, but Katie was so we got to hang out with her until she left to go out to dinner with her besties Laurie and Jesse.  I think she was gonna drop in on MJ and Bananas because Nanners was pretty pissed at her for running off to Montana for three months.  Two year olds can be very unforgiving.

While we were trying to decide what to do for dinner, Josie asked us for a ride to her friend's house where they were going to bake cookies.  Her friend lives right down the street from the Lovely Mr. Curry.  So, we picked up some steaks, dropped Josie at her pal's house, crashed Mr. Curry's pad and he supplied the wine, the ice cream and the fireplace, Jay cooked us steaks and I watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special and took a nap while the men fixed my dinner.

It was practically perfect in every way.

Except for the part where when we got home at 10, I noticed moisture on the tv room ceiling, so I spent a half hour  chopping  ice dams off the roof in the dark.  But I slept like a baby afterward.