It was Julie’s thirty-somethingth’s birthday today! (I’ll give you a hint – it’s a prime number, and she won’t be able to say that again about her birthday for another six years. Not that she would ever say such a thing. For some reason, I’m the only one around here that seems to take interest in the mathematical qualities of our ages.)

She claims to have had a great birthday weekend, even though I didn’t have to wasn’t allowed to buy her a gift. She decided to build “credit” for new living room furniture instead, so we visited a couple of furniture stores on Saturday, including the gigantic Costco Home warehouse. We didn’t find anything too promising, but we’ll keep looking.

We also went to the new-and-improved Everett Children’s Museum, which was really fun for all three kids, and great for Julie and me to watch them have fun. After that (proving that, in fact, we were celebrating Julie’s birthday) we went to Wight’s Home & Garden, which is having a huge Christmas extravaganza with all manner of Christmas stuff for sale, including millions of ornaments, a few of which were purchased and brought home. For dinner, we had tasty Mexican at El Gitano.

Sunday was also an exciting day. We went to church at the host church for Bethany’s preschool, because Bethany and her classmates sang a few songs for the congregation. (Bethany did great!) Then we went to Applebee’s for a birthday dinner (i.e., lunch) with Julie’s parents! (The old-fashioned Reformed man in me wants to assure you that going out to eat on Sunday is an incredibly rare occasion for us; in fact, Julie’s birthday falling on a Sunday is probably a prerequisite.) After dinner, we went home for cake and gifts, graciously provided by Julie’s parents.

So, I had a great weekend, and I think Julie did, too. Other festivities will come later this week, of course – Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all a good night. I’m going to bed.