mmmmmm. ok. danger danger. my lovely friend donna sent a package - it just came, the doorbell didn't even wake up himself, who has been napping an unusual amount today, and inside the package (perishable, open upon arrival) were the most yummy buttercream cookies... seriiously, i had to force myself to leave the kitchen. i could have just eaten the entire box and hidden the evidience. i have a deep and heartfelt love affair with sugar these days. it's better that i pace myself with what i actually have in the house. so good though. butter. cream. buttercream. yum. in a cute tin no less. yay for UPS.

speaking of friends and influences, etc. i have to admit i'm a bit of an enabler. i love to shop with my friends because my friends are good shoppers. i've 'helped' spend half a million dollars on a whim in an afternoon with grace. lately it's a bit more low key, but my supershopper friend annick is fun to enable. :) we went to flower world the other day - i have heard about it for decades and never gone - and i helped her fill in her garden. i did buy a couple of things, but my budget is seriously limited since this mom gig isn't paid. the payback, of a sort, is that she's got me fixated on weeding the damned yard. for the first time in many years, i'm on a weeding frenzy. hopefully that will pay off in a nice enough yard for little man to play in and for the grownups to have drunken croquet parties in.

we have faced a spectacular amount of poop lately. that's always fun. i decided to bail on the whole PEPS thing. i konw it's luck of the draw, and i wasn't feeling it so much with the group i was in. monkey junior is very very funny these days. i'll have to get some video up here. he laughs, and it's like babycrack. making him laugh is the best thing in the world.

speaking of which, the sleeping tiny giant has awakened.