Christening Pictures

Nephew's Christening was this weekend. I don't have any pictures from the church since, as the Godmother, any time anything interesting was happening with him, I was also up on the alter taking part. But I have some nice group pictures of him in his suit. He's not really crying in these photos, though he isn't has happy as he normally is. He was over tired and a little grumpy by the end of it all. Can you really blame him? 

 

 

Movin' and Shakin'

There has been an announcement at work.  The Bosses are leaving.  BossMan got a job in North Carolina. He's leaving in December and BossWoman and the kids are leaving in June when the kids are done with school. 

At the moment, it seems they are planning on running the joint as Artistic Directors from down there.

None of us are really sure what this means. 

I'm not entirely convinced they even know what it means.

It could be good; it could be bad.  We're all in 'wait and see' mode at the moment.  I'm trying not to think about it.  We're getting into the busy season with birthdays and christenings and Nutcracker and holidays.  I'm trying very hard to just take it one day at a time and not think too far ahead.

I'm not very good at one day at a time.

Domestic Sunday

 Or, My Sunday in Pictures

Every once in a while, you need to have one of those days where you stay at home and just get shit done, know what I mean? Today was one of those days.  The Boy™ went off to the laundromat with three bags of laundry and some books to read while I got down and got dirty.

I cleaned the entire apartment from top to bottom. This included mopping the floors (which I don't think have been mopped since we moved in,) and cleaning behind the toilet. Ew. The bowl of apples from the farm looks much more appetizing on a clean table.

     After cleaning, I made a bit of a mess again and cooked a pot of Butternut Squash and Apple Soup.  It starts here 

and ends in delicious soup.   I cooked and chopped and cooked. Then took a break while the pot was simmering and realized I had to clean some more.   So I did some more dishes, put away clean laundry when The Boy™ got home, and cleaned some more.  Even Betty got a bit of a bath.

 

   While I was busy in the kitchen, I got my snacks ready for the week.

  My nutrition teacher will be happy.

  Now that everything is scrubbed, cooked, chopped, shining and sweet smelling, it's time to take a break and enjoy my hard work.  Let's just hope things stay clean and nice for a little while before I have to do it all over again.

The Wedding Post

Last weekend, we went to Connecticut for Cousin Pete and Meg's wedding. It was gorgeous and wonderful and beautiful. We are all very excited to welcome Meg into our crazy family.

I don't know why I didn't take many pictures of the ceremony or reception. Or the awesome after party where Uncle Fred's awesome band played. I took lots of pictures of the baby, of course. Because that's what I do. You can, of course, head on over to Margot's blog to check out her pictures and more detailed posts about it.

So, here's our boy. One of the rare occasions during this weekend he was actually in his mother's arms rather than his grandmother's arms. He was fascinated by the patterns on her dress.

Don't worry, he is looking at his bottle in this picture, not the glasses of wine. We haven't made the poor child into an alcoholic yet.

                                                        There's the beautiful bride!

(Not ColinB) Gabriel found better things to do than participate in the reception. He obviously finds comic books more exciting than dancing. Good choice, kid.

Catching Up

I've been neglecting this blog lately, I know. It's easy to do with Facebook and Twitter out there.

I'll start with the thing most people are talking about right now: The Snow!!

Yes. You read that right. Snow. In the middle of October.

So much, in fact, that I have a snow day today.

(Which is nice, 'cause it means an unexpected day off of work.)

(But bad because, WTF?? Snow in October??)

Pictorial evidence:



This was my drive to the store last week. A sort of gloomy, rainy day. Typical fall weather. The leaves were just beginning to turn.





These were trees from our backyard yesterday. There has been more snow since then.



Since the trees all still have leaves on them, the snow is weighing them down and causing branches to break off. A lot of people have lost power and phones in the area. We lost power at about 4:30am on Friday. It came back on between 9:30 and 10:00am.



The Boy™ discovered snow can make a nice cupholder on the roof of the car. Until it melts, that is. Then it makes a crappy cupholder.

The upside of this sudden, unnatural and unexpected snow storm (aside from my day off today) is that we have discovered that the heat in the new apartment does not, in fact, work. The maintenance guys have been here for the past few days working on it. I'm glad that they've figured it out now, when it's supposed to warm up in a few days, rather than November when it'll just get colder and colder until Spring.

I'll try harder not to neglect this poor blog so much. Next to come, a couple of pictures of ColinB from Pete and Meg's wedding last weekend. I meant to take more pictures of the actual wedding, but .... I'm a doting Auntie. I can't help myself.

The Littlest Ones

I love little dancers in tights with seams up the back.

And I admire their mothers' patience when the seams are straight.

Avenue Q

We saw Avenue Q tonight

I can cross something off my To Do list.

Gina is a happy girl.