Things I Learned This Weekend - The Bubbles & Co. Edition

A) I took a bath for the first time in 3 or 4 years last night. Turns out, they're making bathtubs smaller these days.

(Or maybe I'm bigger....)

(Edit: Actually, I just thought about it and I'm NOT bigger - American bathtubs are waaaaaaaay smaller than Japanese tubs. You can have a party in a Japanese tub! Go ahead, let your mind wander... I'll wait.)

2) If you concentrate really hard, you can finish a book, even while in the midst of a divorce. I spent most of the weekend in my super-clean, super-quiet, super-cozy house, reading with Mackenzie and actually finished my first book since last fall.

C) Only during an evening with great friends (Bubbles and the Big Sexy) will you end up sitting on the kitchen floor talking and drinking wine while waiting for dinner to finish cooking.

D) I'm not too old to fall in love again. This baby girl demanded (and received) my heart this weekend:


...While sitting on the kitchen floor, she hugged me spontaneously and without bribe - her head down on my shoulder, her chubby baby-hand patting my back. And she did it more than once. My uterus still feels the pangs.

Double D) Turns out Mackenzie likes babies after all. And this baby adored her. Behold....



(PS - Her hair is weird because it was Wacky Hair Day at school.)

E) Even if you spend 8 hours talking non-stop with a sister-girlfriend on Friday, you can still carry on a 90 minute conversation on the phone on Sunday (while she drinks wine with a twist-cap and I hide from my kids in the basement).