Sunday dinner

Had fun at my sister's place last night. Andy & Christine (who recently found out she is cancer-free, yay!) & Elspeth, Luisa & Ronnie & Michael, Ruth & Kaarel & Sara & Annie, and Jeff & me. Reid's at the Macworld conference in California right now.





Very cool to see all the kids playing together. I can still remember when Michael was born...and he's 12 now! It blows me away that Luisa is going to be the mother of a teenager next year. I feel like I've been in a time machine lately.





Everyone got introduced to Stripe and Fluffy, Sara's and Annie's new pets. Stripe pooped in Jeff's lap and then fell asleep. Nice life, eh?





Dessert was "make your own sundae". Ruth and Kaarel set up four different types of ice cream, chocolate and candy sprinkles, chocolate syrup, cut-up fresh fruit. Luisa had also brought yummy homemade almond-banana muffins. I pigged out on everything, of course. :-)





Back to digging up invoices and other paperwork for my audit today, oh joy. Jeff and Helen are off to the cottage this afternoon. Jeff wanted to stay around and be an emotional support, but I've told him that it would make me feel better knowing that at least one of us is enjoying themselves at the cottage.

Today's officemusic: Ron Hawkins.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Ronnie, Reid's and Luisa's son. He can also make each eye move independently of the other. He was delighted when he first discovered that this freaks me out. :-)
	Annie in her soccer uniform. She had her first soccer practice this morning and didn't want to take the uniform off. I've asked Ruth if I can attend one of the Sunday morning practices sometime...I find the idea of a bunch of 5-year-olds chasing around a soccer ball is incredibly appealing. :-)
	A note I saw on the fridge door, from Sara about Ruth. "My mom is so great my mom is so nice and she cooks very nice rice but sometimes she wakes me way to early for school! Sometimes I feel like I'm in a big wet pool" (hey, I didn't realize this was a poem until Rand pointed it out, duh)
	Andy bonds with Stripe, with Sara supervising.
	Sara climbs Jeff, Annie tries to climb Jeff.
	Annie took this photo of me just before bedtime.