One of the most fullfilling things I did this past week was to coach my little sisters in dance in preparation for their first feis. Now it was long and tedious, but upon hearing that sister-who-dances-like-a-scarecrow-on-a-pole won 3rd and 5th place, I was quite elated! Who would have thought it?
Splitting a bottle of champagne and watching Brideshead was another highlight of the weekend--one that is hard to beat. Of course there was also much fun to be had visiting with cousins on both sides all day Sunday. Non-stop fun, at least from my perspective. Poor Love was at home with a crying baby for half of the day but then got to smoke and drink in the evening with the other cousins.
The most exciting thing, though, was the chance spotting, on my drive home from seeing some cousins, of a closing down yard sale where a beautiful wooden high chair sat, waiting for me. I had to stop by and ask the price. The lovely highchair was not large and cumbersome but rather slim and short, made of wood with a plastic tray. The whole thing was quite dirty and rather gross, but nothing that a good cleaning couldn't fix. For $10 it was a steal. Home it was brought and cleaned it was and now it sits in our kitchen clean and ready for use. Now I am all set for teething baby to begin eating real foods. (I bought an adorable babyfood cookbook which has be overly excited to be mashing and smashing veggies and fruits into puddles of dark oozing stickiness for my little baby.)
Here is Baby in his new and very clean piece of furniture, happy to have a place to sit at the table.
