Happy 50th Mom

Anne's mom, Sally, spent nearly two full weeks with us to help with the post-baby chaos and enjoy the first grandchild of the family. This was the most time that mother and daughter had spent together since roughly jr. high (Anne's high school years were spent flitting about being a social butterfly). We all had a great time. Eric and Sally are distinctly morning birds (more about Anne's not being a morning person later) and spent the wee hours chatting politics and life in general, all while the new grandmother held Gwennie. Anne and Sally spent a lot of valuable time together catching up on life and laughing like crazy about the finer points of diapering 1o1 and what to do when your child refuses to sleep at night. We cannot thank her enough for all of the help!!!!!

During her stay, Sally was ambushed by a 50th birthday celebration. During time she assumed her daughter was upstairs editing some work materials, Anne was nearly passing out from hurrying to fill as many balloons as possible before someone checked on her "office progress." Then, Sally was sent to retrieve a package from her car while House of Miller rapidly got out the presents, a crazy and insanely large singing card and put up some decorations. For those of you curious, the Hops and Yoyo card (courtesy Hallmark) sings it's own variation of a birthday song when opened. Which means that Anne & Eric spent some time upstairs quietly snickering while trying to figure out how the heck to discretely sign a card that basically screams at you when you open it (reminiscent of the "Screamers" received by various characters in the Harry Potter series).

So, from the bottom of our hearts....THANK YOU MOM for all of the tireless help, advice and encouragement in the past several weeks. You are very solely missed out here by the three of us.