It was a banner year here for me! Dirk made me my favorite breakfast: grits and eggs. But he doctored the grits with Parmesan cheese, sharp cheddar, jalapeños and goodness knows what else. They were the best grits I have ever had. Someday, children will sing songs in the streets about these grits. They will be served to kings (um . . . the grits, not the children). That is, if he is ever able to reproduce them. I think he took a 'little of this, little of that' approach. Anyway, I will move on, for those of you not as passionate as I about this great cuisine of the South. Incidentally, isn't there a festival for just about every kind of food somewhere in this country? I'd like to sign Dirk up for the next grits festival. Moving on. 
Dirk took the kids out shopping (while I lounged around luxuriously and read a book) and each got me something special that they thought I would like. So sweet! That meant: nail polish from Gigi, peanut butter M&Ms from Isaac, lip gloss from Brody. Then Dirk gave me the best gift ever, which was a bunch of pictures of all of us that he had edited to black-and-white and worked other magic with that I cannot fathom and put in a sleek black frame for me. It was something I had been wanting for awhile. I used the bacon grease from breakfast to make some roasted butternut squash risotto for dinner. Yum! 
In the evening, we painted our toes, the boys helping by choosing the colors and my mom took us out for Nielsen's Frozen Custard (which should also be sung about and served to kings).
Oh, and the pictures! They slaved away in the office doing their top secret birthday cards.
Overall, I think we had enough fun (and saturated fat) to last us 'til Christmas. Thanks, little family. Best birthday ever.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Excellent Birthday
Posted by Naomi at 1:26 PM
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Hey, HAPPY BIRTHDAY- belated! Sounds like it was a great day.
I would love to try those grits someday. Don't know if the kids or Rex would like them, but the whole way your hubby made them - now that sounds good.
this post inspired me to do a little more with birthday's. Ryan and I have a habit of 'cancelling' our birthday. Not because we are afraid to get older, we just don't want to be bothered with all the attention. But sometimes its good to teach our kids that other people matter too.
Gwen
I spelled "cancelling" wrong and rather than go and delete my post and correct my error, I thought I'd just write this little ditty instead.
It looks like a great birthday. I still remember the grits and eggs you used to make me--I am glad someone made them for you for a change!
Happy B-day! Looks like it was fun. 'Cept there wasn't a picture of the baby so I could see how big he is getting. Not a big grits fan but after some of the stuff I've had here.. well, grits sounds pretty good.
Happy Birthday, beautiful lady! Hard to top all that! Glad it was so fun!
So fantastic. Makes me smile big. And you are looking super beautiful too.
My mouth is watering from the grits. He's got to make some more and send them my way :)
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