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Violet’s a party girl! December 15th, 2009 by Kim

So I’m feeling very thankful tonight for lots of things. We recently had a lovely shower for Marisa (Bryson) & Baby Violet. It was really fun, and for sure got me even more excited to meet the little one. Baby items are just so foreign and funny when you aren’t used to them. Example: a bucket thing specifically to cover their head when you wash the shampoo out (okay maybe that’s more a little girl thing than baby). Baby V will be very stylish. I can’t wait.

I had a fantastic bday. Thanks everyone! I’ve been a little leary of 24 because I’ve always considered myself more of an odd number girl, but it’s starting out to be pretty solid. I think it’s so funny how I change what “old” is. My mom just recently mentioned that one of my elementary teachers was in her late twenties & I was like, say what?! She always seemed like a grown up to me! It’s almost like they were the sneaky ones. But now I’m just in the club, in on the secret that we act like grown ups even though we’re really not. I had a similar revelation at The Sound of Music the other night when it clicked that Leisl is sixteen. Yes. “I am sixteen going on seventeen” should have done the trick years ago, but somehow it just sunk in that I’m almost a decade older than Leisl, who still seems like such a woman to me. (On a sidenote: check out trappfamily.com to see the real Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont and maybe stay up far too late reading about the true family history…)

Okeedoke, I’m spent from making 144 cookies, & the banging on the wall from the other room leads me to believe that I should go check on Nick. I think he’s hanging a shelf.

P.S. we’re taking a brief one night hiatus from Christmas tunes and jamming/dancing (…nick too) to John Mayer…I’m really liking it. One sounds so much like Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, but I don’t care. It also reminds me of talking each song to death with Amanda & driving to the food bank at 5 a.m. back in colegio.