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Jun. 24th, 2010
Happy birthday, Delia! (and belt test)
Jun. 24th, 2010 09:33 pmToday is Delia's fourteenth birthday! Alas, her sister and father heartlessly left her alone to go tour colleges in Northfield. I mean, what kind of priorities are those?
But wait! For the first time evah, Miss Delia has a Nana and Granddaddy who now LIVE IN TOWN! And can spend her birthday with her! They came and got Delia and took her out for lunch with my sister Betsy and fussed over her and made her feel Speshul. As she certainly is. And then...Nana came and helped her clean and organize her room. For THREE HOURS. She is delighted with her new, clean, newly uncluttered room. It's cozy rather than suffocating.
I tell you, having a Nana in town is amazing. We could totally get used to this.
We had thought we would open presents on Saturday, because we thought Fiona would be working at the dojo tonight. But Fiona called from Northfield saying she was going to be late into work because of college tours, and they said, never mind, no need to come in. And because she was fried from a week of college touring, she skipped her own black belt class, and instead we went out for dinner and celebrated Delia's birthday. On her birthday. Wow, what a concept.
She was delighted with her presents. She's downstairs now playing poker with Daddy and Fiona with her new poker kit.
Slumber party tomorrow night. The theme is Pirates, as she plans to have people watch the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. While in Northfield, Fiona providentially found a store where she was able to buy a cardboard cut out stand alone Jack Sparrow, which she snuck into the living room and assembled when she got home. Delia shrieked when came down the stairs and saw it because she was so startled. Then she was delighted. Alas, I will miss the party, as I am going to take pictures at another dojo's belt test tomorrow night. I also have belt test pictures at our dojo Saturday morning.
That is... I will take pictures of the beginners and intermediate exam. But I will NOT be taking pictures at the exam test, because I will be testing myself, for my double black stripe belt. This is my LAST BELT TEST AT MY SCHOOL. The black belt test is citywide. Hurrah!
But wait! For the first time evah, Miss Delia has a Nana and Granddaddy who now LIVE IN TOWN! And can spend her birthday with her! They came and got Delia and took her out for lunch with my sister Betsy and fussed over her and made her feel Speshul. As she certainly is. And then...Nana came and helped her clean and organize her room. For THREE HOURS. She is delighted with her new, clean, newly uncluttered room. It's cozy rather than suffocating.
I tell you, having a Nana in town is amazing. We could totally get used to this.
We had thought we would open presents on Saturday, because we thought Fiona would be working at the dojo tonight. But Fiona called from Northfield saying she was going to be late into work because of college tours, and they said, never mind, no need to come in. And because she was fried from a week of college touring, she skipped her own black belt class, and instead we went out for dinner and celebrated Delia's birthday. On her birthday. Wow, what a concept.
She was delighted with her presents. She's downstairs now playing poker with Daddy and Fiona with her new poker kit.
Slumber party tomorrow night. The theme is Pirates, as she plans to have people watch the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. While in Northfield, Fiona providentially found a store where she was able to buy a cardboard cut out stand alone Jack Sparrow, which she snuck into the living room and assembled when she got home. Delia shrieked when came down the stairs and saw it because she was so startled. Then she was delighted. Alas, I will miss the party, as I am going to take pictures at another dojo's belt test tomorrow night. I also have belt test pictures at our dojo Saturday morning.
That is... I will take pictures of the beginners and intermediate exam. But I will NOT be taking pictures at the exam test, because I will be testing myself, for my double black stripe belt. This is my LAST BELT TEST AT MY SCHOOL. The black belt test is citywide. Hurrah!