weekend preview

gorgeous girlie
Originally uploaded by Nina Marie Gilbert.

i love this pic of gray. i love the sun on her beautifulbeautiful skin and her wide-eyed wonder. i miss her! can't wait until 10a when i can pick her up.

i have some serious sleep deprivation issues. serious. the night before last, joey woke up every 45 minutes-ish to nursenursenurse. last night he woke up about three times, but i got up at 4am this morning for some unknown reason and couldn't go back to bed. i'm not complaining (yet) but dear, dear body...can you please sleep when you have the opportunity to? i'm worried about my energy levels for the weekend, but since it's BOO'S BIRTHDAY!, this also means that there will be plenty of cooking, chocolate frosting, and of course, coffee to get through the day.

yesterday we spent the day tromping through the black-fly infested forest. i got one stuck in the tiny folds in the back of my throat and i wanted to either throw up or kill myself. then my mom took gray for the rest of the afternoon and i spent the day with joe in the library stacks, reading poetry and magazines, then at home watching him sleep, kissing his face. i felt like a lost soul without grace. last night gray went with her mimi and slept over (they went to see ice age and when i talked to grace on the phone she was all "mami, it was wicked scary...the squirrel hit the fishie!" i have no idea). anyway, gracie was gone, and puppa insisted on watching joey for a bit, so the adulties (john and i:) got to go out for some dinner by ourselves. of course we had to pick somewhere close and cheap, so we went to the dirtydirty china tea house. before we entered the building i literally said "please god don't let us see anyone we know", and as soon as we open the door, denny is standing there! i gave him a big hug and told him that i just said that i didn't want to see anyone but he was an acceptable person to see. love that kid so much.

anywho, ate disgustingdelicious food and talked with hub and then picked up joey. i'm so tired i don't even know why i just wrote that story...

ok, happy happy happy birthday trollspotting! can't wait for em's visit. dad's pruning my tree today (that sounds dirty), em's coming, steph's coming over for a bit, and then it's into the big city tonight for dinner and then to a bar (hi, have i ever been to a bar in boston with the exception of the bachelorette parties this summer? i don't think so...i'm scared!). here's to a wonderful weekend. please send me energy and stamina and good hostess and baker and friendfriend vibes.

what are you doing this weekend?
xo
n.