day...night

Tonight, I am TIRED! Thank goodness Heavenly Father gives us a chance to SLEEP at the end of the day. Really, the only thing I did that made me so tired today was COOK! I think I'm done for the next week :). (by the way...i made a really good meal out of the family cookbook last night. chicken milanese. quite yummy! lucy whiting turned me on to the best marinara sauce i've ever tasted...at Rocco's deli on buffalo, just south of charleston. you can buy it frozen. i cooked some bowtie pasta, warmed the marinara sauce-it was good on the chicken and the bowties-and made a salad, a little french bread...tasty meal! jon even said, "who needs mama jo's?")

So anyway, I got to play with Lauren a little yesterday and today. She makes me smile!!! Today I had to run to the fashion show mall and she came with me. I didn't have her stroller (believe me she loves the freedom of walking), so we had to go up and down many escalators (she calls them stairs), stop at Claire's-sit on the floor and look at every bracelet and necklace in the place (at least 1,000 of them), try them all on, and then put them all back. She didn't even want one (i was willing to splurge and pay the $2.50). After my errand was accomplished I asked her if she would like a pretzel! Talk about excited...I think she started drooling :). I got the cinnamon/sugar sticks and she held on to that thing with both hands, and kept saying, "YUMMY!" and "MORE?" She was sticky from head to toe, clothes included by the time I convinced her that they were all gone.

I believe the funniest thing she did today though, was burp in the middle of a word, in the middle of a sentence. A big, LOUD, burp (ok, i gave her a SIP of my diet coke first). It like, didn't even phase her when she burped, she just kept right on talking, never stopped. A proud moment for her mother, to have her daughter follow so easily in her traditions!



We had a fun day, but I'm looking forward to tonight, cuddling up in my bed with "Big Jon", and being able to rest...