went to visit with A. tonight, left the boys at home due to potential pending illness. benefit was a bunch of great food, nice wine, girl time, and kitchen hand me downs (due to the move and she's good at getting rid of stuff).

dinner was -
yummy meatballs
roasted cauliflower with bacon
rancho gordo flageolet beans with onion, celery, s/p, o/v. (my contribution)
a lovely bottle of wine
crazy italian roasted figs with blue cheese

everything was super superb. oh dear lord i ate too much. it was sooooo good. AND junior birdman (her son) is on.the.move. he's just started the whole crawling thing and he's having a great time. eating, crawling, eating.

a very nice evening. apparently i just needed to leave the house for monkeybaby to have a good time. he'd been a wreck all day but was fine for monkeydad. BYE MAMA.

i really must get some exercise to fend off these meals.