One year

Queen Julia Bean is now one year old and the three of us have made it through 365 days of delight with rare bursts of tears.

And Gramma Sally came for a month this summer and did all the grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning and laundry so that i was able to finally finish off the downstairs bathroom and build the door for the laundry room and paint the windows and re-do the shower tiles that leaked and put up baby barriers everywhere for a little girl whose main interest these days is taking things apart, pulling clothes off shelves, eating cat food and baby wipes… and we got to go down to Vic Fezensac and see Rubén Blades.  And Marie-Laure and Andrea got married and we got to be there too.

Next week nights will get longer and the days more full, but it has been a wonderful summer.