We’re celebrating Dear Husband’s birthday tonight. His birthday was actually October 26, but it’s difficult to gather the children and grandchildren, so we celebrate on whatever day we can all gather.
As far as we are concerned, birthdays are lovely reasons to get together with family. We made a trip to Indiana last week, and celebrated three of the October birthdays. Frankie, my youngest sister, has been kind enough to host us each October, and we celebrated my birthday, her youngest daughter’s birthday, and DH’s birthday. She asked each of us what would be our favorite celebration dessert. I love carrot cake, my niece loves the dark chocolate cake her family makes, and DH loves cream pies. Frankie arranged to have all three of the desserts, including coconut cream pie for DH! I have never been invited to a place where there was so much dessert offered! lol To make matters worse, DH picked up a red raspberry pie and turnovers at the bakery to take as a bread and butter gift! It was rainy and chilly, but it gave us good reason to stay inside and visit. We watched “Monsters, Inc.” on Friday night, and “The Perfect Storm” on Saturday. I have a brand new (unopened) copy of “The Perfect Storm” for sale if anyone would like it…… Thank you, Frankie, for such a wonderful weekend!
Tonight….we do Italian with the bambinos. I expect to hear tales of trick-or-treating, and candy piled ten feet high! What a lovely end to a lovely day!