Blessings

Thanks to all the friends who helped us celebrate the Monkey's first birthday yesterday. Thanks too to friends and family members who sent their gifts and well wishes from a distance.

We were gratified by the thoughtful blessings. Our cousins fashioned a time capsule, and we will put the blessings in there for a couple of decades. The date on the time capsule is the Monkey's twenty-first birthday. (Maybe I should put a bottle of wine in there, so that his first legal alcoholic beverage will be top class.)

The Monkey had fun, too. One of my favorite memories of the day has to be balloon shopping at 8:30am. Nothing like strolling around a grocery store with a dozen balloons to get his attention.