Let’s just have a little rundown write-as-fast-as-I-speak sort of post, shall we?

Alright then.

Piper Finn attended a tea party birthday gathering today that just sounded like all sorts of sweet fun.  She told me that she learned how to walk with a book on her head and how to fold napkins into shapes and there were tiny sandwiches shaped like stars and it just sounded like the best sort of way to celebrate her friend turning ten.  A friend recently told me that ten is just about her favorite age and I have to say – it is a pretty special age.

My own ten-year-old, and the birthday party attendee, also lost a tooth today and our entire household rejoiced as it came out of her ten year old mouth because oh my the drama that that tiny tooth brought with it.

I really pushed the limits on my Yukon today as the gas light warned me of imminent doom when I was just painfully far on a back road away from gas stations.  We eeked on into the station and I think I thought I had a 25 gallon tank but apparently I have a thirty gallon tank because we poured n 29.95 gallons.  I keep meaning to google the actual size of my gas tank, just for fun and to see how close we cut it, but I also keep forgetting.

This morning I dressed myself in clothing that made it appear as if I might work out at some point in my day.  I pretended that the possibility was true.  I even went to a location where running or swimming or any such physical activity would have been appropriate.  I told myself that I would take advantage of the locale. Instead, I sat still with my toes dipping in the water on the dock’s edge until I got tired of the sun and just sat on a towel in the shade.  Basically, I just don’t care for exercise.

I let Bergen choose our quote.

We started reading the book Wonder together as a family.  Oh you guys.  We’re only about one fourth of the way through it and already I have laughed so hard that I had to stop reading and I have done the same with crying too.  It’s been a while since a book was so well received by every family member right out of the gate.

And my train of thought ends right here at this station tonight.

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