It’s pretty unusual for me to go so long without posting. I guess I just got busy. On Saturday we had a potluck appetizer party to celebrate Breanna’s birthday. Due to a lot of different reasons, we never had a party for her back in November and I really didn’t like that so even though it was two months late, we went ahead with it. Luckily things weren’t getting started until 5 or 5:30 so that gave me a chance to get everything ready throughout the day (including baking the cake TWICE because the first time the damn cat got up on the table and ATE the first one that was cooling; it is a miracle that we still have her after that).

We ended up being short several people. My parents couldn’t be here because of car issues. Also, a grand total of six people had to cancel because of a gastro virus, and two others couldn’t make it because of other obligations. However, it ended up being a nice intimate party. Of course, we had a metric ton of food leftover, but that’s okay because then you don’t have to wonder what to eat for the next few days. Also, June sat down on the couch, looked around the living room that is usually crowded full of kids and extra chairs and said, “I never realized how huge your living room is!”

Breanna enjoyed the party very much. I think it ended up working out well because when she was just turning one, she was still a little leery of other people. Right now she’s in a phase where she’s extremely social, smiling and chatting to everyone, so she had a great time. She really enjoyed the cake too.

I put up a photoset of the party over on Flickr if you’d like to see all the pictures.

Beyond that, I’ve just been busy with different things. I spent a lot of Sunday cleaning up because I’ll be damned if I’m going to bust my ass cleaning up the apartment for a party only to let it stay messy the very next day. On both Sunday night and Monday night, Breanna fell asleep for about half an hour and then woke up refusing to go back to bed so those evenings were totally shot. Last night she finally went to bed and slept for over two hours before waking up for a quick fill-up and then she went back to bed. Thank GOD. It was nice because I wanted to watch a movie that was on TV (“In God’s Country” which was really good but a little horrifying) and I was glad to get a chance to just sit down with a glass of wine and some of the leftover snack food and just watch it.

Hopefully I’ll be back on track now with my posting. It was weird to go that long without popping in here.