Author: Doris

Happy 7th birthday sweetie!

Happy Birthday, Edda – from Grand Mom, Rena & Grand Pa, Noel.

My parents came by last night with Chinese take-out. Except for the okra, which my mom cooked herself.

Enjoying chinese fried chicken.

Ruby, the grand-dog, gets a little chicken treat.

Last Sunday, we celebrated S’s 7th birthday. S was born a week before Edda, so she is my benchmark or milestone marker for Edda to keep Edda (and me) up to speed in the world of 7 year old girls. S got her ears pierced in honor of turning 7, so it occurs to me that maybe Edda would want her own ears pierced. Hmmm. Something to consider.

Dad and Edda considering the implications of Finding Nemo.

Chocolate cake!

It is such a beautiful weekend, I am a little embarrassed to admit that we are just staying in the house and relaxing all weekend. No play dates, no extra activities, no nothing. Vince is doing a Rugrats marathon, I’m catching up on bills/paperwork/taxes and Grey’s Anatomy. Edda is still in her pajamas. We are eating on the couch and licking the artificial butter off of the packaging of microwave popcorn. It’s awesome.

Because my parents have spent a career designing piping systems for nuclear power plants and because Jeremy works in energy policy and because I have worked as an actual engineer that has stood in front of a machine that refuses to work even though you’ve tried everything you can think of (including kicking it), it is with heightened anxiety that I hear that the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is getting worse. I know that lots of people have lost their lives and lots of people have no food or water and that it’s freezing, but somehow I dwell on those handful of nuclear engineers and technicians who are without doubt operating on sheer panic to try and control the rapidly out-of-control situation.

On a lighter note, here’s Edda trotting. I tried to remind Jeremy to find out the name of the horse, but of course, he forgot.

We went to our local nursery this afternoon to see if we could find a small dogwood tree to plant in our front lawn. We are a little too early to find very many trees in stock, but we did get to see some beautiful plants!

Edda is getting so tall!

I am starting an Orchid collection. Either I get them as gifts or I find them neglected somewhere and ask if I can take home. I am so pleased to find out that these beautiful flowers don’t need very much light, our house is shaded so I thought I could never have flowers in the house. But now I have these!