Six Years (and counting)

Today was our sixth wedding anniversary. The traditional gift for year six is iron, and it was perfect since Joe had asked if he could buy himself a new set of golf clubs as a combination anniversary/Father's Day gift. I'm counting my new bike as anniversary gift as well as Mother's Day gift, and we were both very happy on that front.

Actually, we had a very nice day overall...St. Louis Park had its Parktacular Parade this afternoon, and our favorite librarian Joanie had asked me and the girls if we'd like to walk in their group in the parade. I thought "Why not?" and the three of us showed up with the stroller and a couple of signs that I'd quickly printed out saying "We Love our Library" and "Librarian Joanie Rocks!" (She really does rock. She is so nice to my kids, and all the other kids that come to the library. She learns all their names and gets down on their level and talks to them like real people and suggests good books and is generally just a nice person.) It was hot, but not as hot as yesterday, and we walked the route, then got to see much of the rest of the parade as we walked back to our car.

I was thrilled with the people from Trader Joe's, who were handing out apples to people in the parade. I was not so thrilled with the lady from Cub Foods, who walked up to the stroller and tossed a couple of rolls of Smarties in at Julie. Julie still hasn't tasted most kinds of candy, and she was happy eating her apple, thankyouverymuch. That's right, people. I have an almost-four-year-old who has never had candy except for the odd chocolate chip when we're making cookies. And she's not in any way traumatized by it. She doesn't ask for candy, doesn't seem to miss it, and she is thrilled when she gets treats like breakfast bars and apple sauce. But there I go on a soapbox tirade.

So anyway, we came home and I cleaned house like it really needed it, because it really did need it and we were having a.....babysitter!!!! over this evening. Julie's pre-school teacher (or really one of the four different teachers who helped out in her classroom) agreed to babysit for us again, and we were so happy because both Julie and Sophie love her and she has a good vibe and Joe and I trust her.

And I put on my sexy brown dress with the plunging neckline and we went out and ate a wildly extravagant meal and we had adult conversation and had chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream for dessert. We came home and both girls were asleep (thankfully!) so we paid the babysitter and we did all the adult things that we were not able to do in the hotel room after the last time I wore the sexy brown dress because we were sharing it with the girls....sorry about the TMI...and life is really really good.

Sorry for the train-of-thought entry tonight. I don't even have any pictures for you. But I am going to run off and knit a little P. Fishy socky before bed.