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Margot is two!

Someone turned 2!  We had a small party at home on her actual day, presents from Mommy, Daddy, Madeline, and grandparents and a little cake. Margot very much enjoyed all of it.  We'll have a sweet little party with friends soon - we had to postpone the first one after our party girl caught a fever last week.

Aint Ruby's Mac N Cheese

Cause if you say Aunt properly it sounds like Ain't. Ruby was my grandmother. She was one of several middle siblings (9 total) who every Christmas converged on my Aunt Susan's home. At least 100 people would show up and eat, talk, cackle, and swap presents. It was only as an adult I came to realize how odd the whole thing was. Women my age have grandkids which means my mother's cousins have great great grandkids.  My Aunt Susan's house is nice, but 100 people meant half in the yard, men out in the shop, and tripping over kids. As a child I most remember that there were only two bathrooms and I wasn't really supposed to use Aunt Susan's and Uncle Jim's. No clue if that was an official rule or something I came up with in my own mind; I came up with and self imposed a lot of arbitrary rules on myself as a kid. Anyway, one of Barbara Ann (Virginia's daughter and hence my mother's double cousin)'s girl folk loved Christmas because she got to eat A...

Holiday weekend

 What a busy weekend! Someone lost a second tooth Sunday morning!         we heavily encouraged the pulling of said tooth as it was rotating all around and just hanging out in the spot. After about half an hour, Harris handed her a tissue and we got her to pull it out on her own. Afterwards we talked about whether it was scarier or actually as painful as she was making it out to be. She agreed that it was fear more than pain and that now it was out, she was proud of herself.   Not as proud as Mommy and Daddy sweetheart.   Our annual selfie watching fireworks outside of the Durham Bulls stadium. This time we perched at Dillard and Pettigrew to try a new view.         We also went blueberry picking on Saturday. We managed to weigh 8 lbs of sweet organic rabbit eye blueberries at the end. Pretty sure the blond ate a pound while we were picking.  This should be enough to ...