We're back from the 4 y.o. birthday party at the inflatable bouncy house playland.
This was for Emma, one of Matilda's friends from her first preschool. So we got to see her and Diego and their parents and catch up. That's what we do in the fall since we all went our separate ways. It's nice to still be invited.
They specifically invited Emmett too, and, predictably, he bounced off every structure they had and threw himself around with abandon. But careful abandon so he didn't land on any of the spuds.
One of the other parents who had not seen Emmett work a little kid birthday party made sure to tell me, "Is that your son? Big brother of the year award. He's so good with all the little kids. I think he played with every one of them."
Yeah, that's what he does.
And I'm just back from TJ's where I avoided the Joe Joe's but did pick up the rise-overnight chocolate croissants for breakfast tomorrow.
Oh, and msbelle, for a non-hideous version of O Holy Night, try Future of Forestry. That's the band we're going to see, and they do a lovely version. In fact both of their Advent albums are excellent. Well, all their albums are excellent. Hee. Look how band-smitten we are right now. Yay Christmas spirit!
Our current favorite version of O Holy Night is the South Park version where they poke Cartman with a cattle prod.
Though I'm sure I've got a prettier one on possibly my Roches album.
Today I played my xmas CD by the Players, a troop of traditional British musicians who play 19th century and earlier Christmas carols on acoustic, traditional instruments (like, the hurdy gurdy for that lovely bit of drone).
It's very Dickens Christmas.
You totes can!
Okay! I'm going to try. Surely the internet knows how. I have wire. I have a ribbon. Who better than me?
Who better than me?
Martha Stuart. But you're number 2.
That's great that Emmett does that.
rise-overnight chocolate croissants for breakfast tomorrow
Where have these been all my life?
The Mexican "hot" chocolate cupcakes I baked yesterday are truly epic, though.
O Holy Night
IMO, Perry Como sings the one true version. For a completely different sound, I also enjoy Tracy Chapman's.
Why is framing so expensive? I'm sure I'm being robbed, but even so. I never have the energy to comparison shop.
Framing is expensive. It requires a lot of specialty tools. You probably aren't being robbed. I know an artist who went into framing and started a business because it was too damn expensive to keep paying to frame his own work.
