the past few weeks have been slammed with family fun, celebration, love, peace, joy, and now...some quiet before we ring in 2009!
starting with Mr. Ben
who turned 9 this month...
i was roused out of my comfy bed that morning to the sound of his sweet voice in my ear:
"momma, can you believe it? your baby is NINE today!"
naturally, i cried.
who ever thinks that, in the moment of cradling an infant and kissing his soft forehead, that the child in your arms would ever be big?
i didn't.
but big has snuck up on me
most of his friends were stateside for the holidays, save one-Alex, so we went with "Preston's Crew" to one of our favorite places "JumpInn."JumpInn is a warehouse that is full of trampolines, inflatable climbing things and the whatnot that wears kids out, AND sells alcohol to parents who have to sit there for 4 hours and watch.
nice!
Mr. Ben had more gifts to enjoy than even a TEN year old could open...it was a wonderful birthday that merged into the first night of Hannukah
lighting the candles, using Ben's menorah this year, was a special treat...we had our dear friends Dan and Jules
come from Belgium for the week. they got to celebrate many nights of Hannukah in addition to the Christmas Eve revelry that rolled into 5 days of nothing but fun, friendship, and (extended) family.
always game for "mandatory fun ala Casa H" is our other friend John
such a good sport-putting up with the management of 5 highly opinionated folks...he truly "goes with the flow!" he was with us for the holidays too-waay back in early december, when TL was tdy, he ventured out to not 1, but 2 Wheinnacht Markts-my favorite places this time of year-where he was convinced i would be arrested for my "grow as we go" collection of ghluwein mugs!
(i wasn't-you pay a deposit, and if you keep the mug or get too drunk to return it, you forfit the deposit-so there!)
but wheinnachts markts will be another post-
and this post...
a slight pause in programming my friends-oreo has to go out!
umarmen und lieben
essie
i'll be back-promise!!
1 comment:
oooh hooray!
I've missed you so.
glad ben had a stellar birthday.
that place looks mad fun, take us when we come please and thank you.
so happy you had such a nice break....enjoy ringing in the NY.
wish we were there.
NYE on Miranda was sort of fabulous.
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