Happy Birthday Owen and Other Notes!

1.  My sweet, sweet baby.  My EIGHT year old.  Yesterday I was hugging him and carrying on about the fact that I would never have a seven year old again and he pulled away, looked at me seriously and said, "yes, you will Mom."  When I protested he shook his head and said, "but you'll always have one in your heart."  Good God but I love that boy. Ernie rolled his eyes.  He does that a lot to us....

 

2.  I'll never forget when they first gave him to me, all wrapped up like a little eggroll. I thought to myself, "there's something special about him" and man was I ever right.

 

3.  Back to work today.  Sigh.  Not that my job is so terrible....just hard to think about getting back into the routine.  The boys head back to school tomorrow----at least Owen had his birthday off!

4.  Ernie and I seem to have been felled by a bout of food poisoning.....we're still getting waves of it.  At least all I can guess is that it is food poisoning.  We both woke up yesterday with exactly the same symptoms and we'd eaten the same things the days before although I still don't know what caused it.  It doesn't feel like the flu or anything like that and given that it seems to be restrained to prolonged gastrointestinal torture.....food poisoning seems to fit the bill.  Who knows.....just weird.  So it made for a quiet day yesterday and a comforting dinner pilaf kind of thing of pink lentils (God I love those---they're so beautiful), basmati rice and some ground turkey.

5.  Putting away the ornaments we had a tragedy.  Bob the cat broke Leo's FAVORITE Christmas ornament.  I almost cried when I saw Leo's face.  One had gotten broken in the great ornament smash of 2006 but my parents had one like it so gave that to him.  I feel so terrible.  It's the multicolored, reflective ornament all the way to the left of this picture.  I don't suppose anyone will know where to find one but I thought I'd put it on here.  It was glass with swirls of gold, purple and green and pink....almost like a little oil slick but that doesn't sound very attractive.  It was opaque and shiny and reflective and it was his FAVORITE ORNAMENT PEOPLE.  Sigh.