sleepover & poll: movies

NaNoWriMo update: 17,204 words written, 32,796 to go. Thanks to Michelle Southern for turning my cartoons into NaNo-grams!

So Sara and Annie slept over on the weekend for the first time! They were very excited, almost as excited as Jeff and me. Jeff asked them what they'd like to order in for dinner; they chose pizza. We watched Monsters Inc., and then Jeff made his homemade milkshakes for dessert. Jeff's milkshakes are especially decadent because he custom-makes each person's milkshake, adding a chocolate bar of choice to the mix, yum.

The time went by pretty quickly. After milkshakes and some games was bathtime, flossing, toothbrushing, and bedtime stories. I always love hugging and kissing the girls. Freshly bathed and clad in their pajamas, they are irresistable. I restrained myself, though, because I never want to end up as one of the aunts you read about in kid stories that always pinches children's cheeks and is someone to run away from.

Sara and Jeff slept on the pull-out couch in the living room, and Annie and I slept in the bedroom. Annie gradually shifting her sleeping position during the night until she was lying perpendicular to me, her head lying on my stomach. She seemed to sleep pretty soundly throughout the night, though she did speak once, very loudly and clearly: "I -am- here!" in the middle of the night. As usual when I sleep with one of my nieces, I kept waking up at every twitch and sound, just in case they needed me. How do you mothers do it? I suppose you get used to it after a while.





Yesterday morning, Jeff and I took the girls to the Lord of the Rings exhibit in the building that used to be the McLaughlin Planetarium. We thought the exhibit was okay, but not nearly as good as the one last year. Part of it, I'm sure, was the fact that we were shuffling along pretty much the whole way with people in front and behind us because it was so crowded. But we didn't find the exhibits nearly as interesting, though the brief shuffle through Fangorn at the beginning was kind of cool, as was the fact that there were Two Towers scenes shown on the screens everywhere that I had never seen before.

Poll: harry potter or lord of the rings? or...?

Which are you looking forward to more: the new Harry Potter movie, or the new Lord of the Rings? Do you plan to see either on opening day? Or another movie? Or are you basically turned off movies in general? I'm also curious about Chicago and Nemesis, though I don't get excited about new Star Trek movies anymore (Wrath of Khan was the best, then things went downhill).

Answer here





Links/News:

Three years ago, I interviewed Maya Bohnhoff for Inkspot. Sadly, that interview was lost when Xlibris shut down the site.

Four years ago, Fimo helped keep me sane.

Five years ago, I was learning important German phrases.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Annie prepares her dolls for bedtime. The one at the far left is Flatmouse, which was Jeff's doll when he was a child.
	Line-up to get into the Lord of the Rings exhibit yesterday.
	Annie, Sara and Jeff at Museum subway station.