River and I were just blowing kisses at each other from across the room, and he kissed each of his fingertips then blew them at me. I've never seen that one before! I'm a total sucker for blowing kisses. I would have thought that cliche in the past, but having kids helps keep it real, and blowing kisses is fun. I blow kisses at my friends and mean them nowadays.


Yesterday was a bad day. A hormonal day. The young dog and River both pushed me too far, and I almost got a migraine out of the deal. When Trey got home, I went and worked out and felt a lot better afterward. While I worked out, Trey was kind enough to take the kids grocery shopping and for a snack at the Co-op, then we all met at home. Everybody put in an order for dinner and I fixed it all up cafe style, then ducked out on the fam to have a long overdue phone conversation with Corey. We talked for a couple of hours or so about everything (with a focus on physical science and nutrition, which is extra cool since he's attending Bastyr) while I knit Stacy's scarf and drank gin. It was fun. Afterward I took the dogs for walks, my first proper dog walk since the ice and snow melted. I really needed that.


Tonight I'm actually going out for NYE, something I haven't done in ages. One of Stacy's best friends has an annual bash that we'll be attending together. I'm not big on parties, but house parties full of cool people I don't know are okay, so long as I am not expected to mingle, because I just don't do that. I'm pretty excited to go as Stacy's date, though. I really wanted to pin curl my hair for tonight, but the weather is calling for rain so I think I'll stick with the relative indestructibility of victory rolls. I'm also excited because I get to stay the night with my girl again, and I get to do the same thing Thursday night. Yum.

I'm also excited to do some serious baking for the party today! I'm making little packets of goat cheese in pastry with toasted pine nuts. I haven't made pastry in years, and it used to be my favorite thing ever to make. I just don't like butter anymore, or any cow dairy for that matter. However, we recently got a sample of some European style goat butter from the Co-op, and it's really good! I'm going to try it for my little packets tonight. Goat butter has a slightly higher moisture content than cow butter, but I don't think it will affect my pastry adversely, especially since the French farmhouse method I use compensates for minor variables like that. If it works well, I'm extra excited because both Trey and I will eat the occasional pastry treat if it is made with goat butter. It was only $5/lb. too! edit: I thought that pricing was too good to be true. Turns out it's $5 for 8 oz. Still, not bad for goat, especially if one isn't using it very often. /edit. I will let you know how it turns out.