Sticking a fork in the weekend

What a weekend!

We had a really nice weekend, and I am exhausted and can't wait to go to bed (No, I'm not watching the Super Bowl. Shocking, I know.), so I'll keep this short.

Saturday, Pat and Greta had some nice daddy-daughter time while I went out to have afternoon tea with my friend Dottie. This friend is a sort of new friend who is so ridiculously nice. When we were buying our house, she insisted she wanted to come over and help me clean. It boggled my mind. She not only brought her kick-ass cleaning skills, she also brought her Dyson, wine, and cracker-and-cheese goodness. She helped me clean the entire house, and having her company for that first big clean was priceless. As a thank you, I got her "tea for two" and Hicks & McCarthy. I swear I wasn't fishing for and invite, but she insisted I join her. So we finally got around to doing that this weekend. She is such a fun person, and she reminds me that there is a lot of good in the world.

Today, we got together with some new friends and some old friends. First, we met up with one of Greta's newish day care pals (and her family) at the museum. We had such a good time with them. We seem to have a lot in common, including parenting style. I have never met people through a kid connection who I've clicked with more. I really, really like the mom, and, frankly, I think I have a little bit of a friend-crush on her. I hope she likes me! And, probably more importantly, I really like their little girl. She is one of the sweetest, most thoughtful three year olds I've ever met.

The girls were so cute together. They were holding hands and just very obviously enjoyed being together.

Amigas.

I think Greta might have a friend-crush too.

After the museum, we went over to our little friend Nathan's birthday party. Frank and Joyce are always such good hosts. It was such a nice party. I will say I was stumped as to what to buy him for his birthday. (Girls are so much easier than boys, sez I.) I was walking around Toys R Us last night in a daze, and finally I settled on this big wooden dinosaur play thing and container of plastic dinosaurs. I was thinking, Uh, do the kids like dinosaurs these days?? And when we walked in and saw that there was a dinosaur theme, I was all, YES! I am awesome. I have no pictures of the event because I was too busy stuffing my face with food and playing with dinos.

What else? I was kind of a lazy cook this weekend, but we were running around a lot. I did make a healthy(ish) French onion soup. It was my first-ever attempt at FOS. It absolutely killed my eyes, and when I woke up this morning I had lovely bloodshot eyes. It was far from the best FOS I've ever had, too. Given how painful it was to make the soup and the lackluster results, I think FOS is something I will leave to the professionals in the future. Here's the recipe in case you want mediocre soup that will make you cry and wake up with red eyes.

The only downside to having such a fun weekend is that it went by in a flash and now I'm really super especially not looking forward to work tomorrow. Blerg.

Time for bed!

Fran