who do you think you are, fred astaire?

1. going to the dentist
i'm grateful to be able to get my teeth cleaned every 6 months. i'm grateful for a very nice dentist who tells me i do a great job brushing my teeth. i'm grateful for parents who go with me to the dentist and sit in the waiting room until i am done and we drive home together and talk.

2. going to healdsburg with chloe, sasha, and jenna
so we had originally planned on going to jim town, this awesome little store/deli in alexander valley, but when we got there, they were closed. of course their new winter hours changed so that they would only be closed on tuesdays. of course. so we ended up going to healdsburg, and that was really fun. we went to this little thai food place and i got some really yummy chicken pad thai. yummm. then we went to powell's candy shop which is basically a candy store on steroids, and it was really happy, and they were playing music from willy wonka, and they were showing willy wonka, too, on the tv. that was a really great sentence, grammatically. just sayin'. it was fun to catch up with them all!

3. going to the grocery store with mama
i love going to the grocery store with my mama. she is great. the grocery store is great. we're really good at this thing called "buying lots of ice cream." we got holiday ice cream. so excited. in our freezer we currently have some peppermint and some egg nog ice cream. i'm eating it all tomorrow. all.

4. dinner at the de limur's
every year before christmas, the hughes, morgan, umble, fellion, and de limur families get together for one grand evening of dinner and festivities and sitting and eating and laughing and having a good time all together. tonight was that night. we ate waayyy to many appetizers. we had a delicious dinner of chicken and roasted vegetables and potato pancakes and roasted vegetables and spinach salad. (i didn't mean to include roasted vegetables twice, but it works because two families brought them, so we're just gonna go with it.) we decorated christmas cookies for dessert. we told stories around the dinner table and relaxed in front of the fire. it was a splendid evening.

5. having funny conversations with my family
today in the car:
mom: it's like dancing on the stars!
dad: dancing on the stars? who do you think you are, fred astaire?
maybe you had to be there, but i just thought that was so funny. i laughed to myself for a while about that one.

i'm so excited to go to bed. i am sooooo tired. i'm not really sure why...i guess i just am. also, because when i wake up, do you know what is happening?! i am driving with the mutzes to san francisco to pick up CAMMIE MUTZ from the airport. and i get to meet her friend emily from hawaii. and i can't really wait. i haven't seen that girl in a year. this is going to be good times. gooooood times. let 'em roll.