Open House Saturday

Today is our busy day of preparation for our open house. Mommy and Daddy spent the morning huggin’ and kissin’ our babies, ‘cause we knew we would be “shipping you both out” at noon to spend the night with Grandma (Buddha) and GiGi (Bodhi). Though we both look forward to our evening with friends and celebrating Mommy’s Master’s Degree achievement and putting Mommy’s creative genius in decorating our home on display, we know we will be having withdrawal missing our Princess and Prince!

Mommy busied herself with last minute cleaning, and she had a list for Daddy to complete as well. So, we worked, and we worked, and we worked…J.

Come evening time, we were settled with fresh homemade potato soup, cheeses and crackers, grapes, tortilla chips, fancy little turkey treats,  rum cake, and miniature cupcakes (cupcakes courtesy of Sister Kelly). We also offered a broad range of wine and beer imported from Baltimore (where Daddy went to Graduate School at The Johns Hopkins University---one of two beers famously reminiscent of Daddy’s hard studies---Schaffer beer (courtesy of Brother Aaron and Brother Cory), the other beer is National Bohemian---but we can’t find it anywhere close to usL).

The memorable story of the rum cake will always be this: Mommy and Buddha come downstairs after awakening (Mommy was up until 2:00 a.m. making two rum cakes, one of which turned out a presentation disaster, as it crumbled when she attempted to place it on a plate, the other one turned out perfect and was on display in our beautiful dining room). They both notice that Bodhi is hiding under a blanket, so they pretend not to know where she is and start calling out her name. They walk into the dining room, and Mommy instantly notices the rum cake clear glass cover is off the cake and a chunk is missing from the top as though someone had just dipped a small hand into it---and yes! When Mommy, with a confused Buddha following on her heels, goes into the living room and lifts the blanket, she discovers Princess Bodhi eating rum cake!!! J.

Oh my golly!! JJ!! JJJ

We enjoyed (in spite of the raid on the rum cake) a wonderful evening with Rita and Terry, Vivian and Rudy, Judy and Sarge, Sharon and Hawk, Marcia and Jerry, Anabel and Charlie, Jane and Gary, Sister Kelly and Brother Aaron, Brother Sean Franky, Susan, Ray, Gabby, and Janet, Hope, and Jerry Hurlock. Mommy and Daddy shared concerns for those invited that didn’t make it to the open house, still we enjoyed a wonderful evening of fellowship, friendship, and delightful conversations! Mommy’s famous potato soup became more famous and yielded calls for recipes that Daddy is charged with delivering.  Mommy was graciously given some beautiful gifts from our wonderful guests, and though exhausted when the evening ended, we were moved to plan another get-together of our family and friends, with hopes we can all make it for an opportunity to give thanks for true friends and recognize our many blessings!

“Night, night,” family and friends, and especially “night, night” with all our love little Emilia and Jude. We thoroughly enjoyed our festive evening, and we anxiously await tomorrow to be with our precious babies!!!