We have a couch! A real, made to order, grown-up couch! To be delivered in two weeks from Burbank's own Sofa U Love.
Lucy played Babies and Dress Up with her Gretta. Over and over. Priceless.
Arlo's snaggletooth (from a Beyblade a few months past) is ready to come out. Until them he is a font of Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel jokes.
Last night we went out to dinner to a snazzy French Bistro a mile away. We got a babysitter and hoped for the best. The dinner was lovely and the bread was actually passable. Evan had promised Lucy (our bread snob) a roll in the morning. At the end of the evening, we asked for a slice of bread to take home for the 3yo (I had previously complimented the chef on the bread and complained about the commercially available bread here). They gave us two loaves of the best bread I've had since we moved here.
I tore that bread up and toasted it lightly in the oven; scrambled a dozen farmer's market eggs with a touch of cream and a bit of chopped oregano from my kitchen garden, and fried up a pan of bacon. Because it was the day after we hit the farmer's market, there was sliced heirloom tomato and organic + local strawberries, white grapes, and golden raspberries.
I had a conversation with a grown-up!
Saturday Afternoon Ice-Cream Tasting was moved to Sunday due to various children's sugar-meltdowns. (Jim, Loretta and the kids saw Spy Kids 4 with the kids and had plenty of candy. Evan and I took the opportunity to drink some bottled water and watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes.) The clear winner was the chocolate sorbet.
I introduced my mother-in-law Loretta to the Magnolia Park district, beautiful downtown Burbank, and the fancy mall in Glendale. I think she will come back to visit us!
We were all so grateful to see some familiar faces this weekend. Shouldn't you come and visit us as well?
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