more festive fun

The table was set in my wedding fine china (vintage, more than fine, but it was the first use of the good stuff) and mom and I ironed out and folded up the napkins real pretty. We added the flea market and farmers market $3 centerpiece and felt like we were really fancy, too. This table was set for kings.

By dessert my apartment was so hot that the kiddies were running around in their diapers, drinking coffee out of the fancy cups and eating lots of the good stuff, the whipped cream.



We started out all looking nice, and happy, and at peace... and most of the night was spent that way. :-) Those little ones bring enough energy to light up any room, and the laps around the kitchen island kept Willy the Flash quite busy.


Maggie looked for sucker after sucker to take her to see the "neigh, neigh". She'd walk over to you and melt you with her eyes, saying "neigh, neigh" until you agreed to take her down to see the horses. then you'd walk her back and forth between the two. She'd let one lick her and she'd giggle, and then be ready to move on to the other... and by the time you got back upstairs, she'd be looking for another sucker of a grown-up to take her back down.


Its been wonderful to have the whole family here for so long that we can really enjoy each other and feel like we're on vacation. I'm not quite ready for it to end...