Celebrating Eric

Eric's birthday was last week. He came over for pizza (his choice for birthday dinner), presents, and monkey bread (his choice for dessert). I love this kid and love celebrating special occasions with him. I love watching him continue to grow mentally and emotionally. He amazes me on a regular basis. I am so blessed to be his mom.

Noel took pictures this time around because my phone had died.

Tonight, Eric and I went out for our yearly Mom and Eric day. Given several choices of things to do, he chose dinner at Fat Shack, a strange restaurant that serves very odd sandwiches. He loves this place but hasn't been there since moving back to our part of town. We had weird food and good conversation. It's nice that he still wants to spend this kind of quality time with me.

Wrapped Gifts

My daughter likes to wrap gifts, and I hate it. This works out fairly well for both of us when it comes to Christmas presents. All I have to do it give gifts to her and tell her who they are for, and she wraps them for me. 

This year I did almost all of my shopping on Amazon, and I couldn’t just hand over the boxes as they came because I wrap her presents so she is still surprised on Christmas. A few days ago, she begged me to go through the boxes and give her things to wrap. The next morning, I woke up to my kitchen table filled with wrapped gifts and empty Amazon boxes. (Don’t worry, the boxes will be recycled once I am able to assure we don’t need them to wrap the last few things I will be buying today.) 

I am so thankful for her efforts to wrap our family’s presents so beautifully. I know I will have to do it myself one of these days. Hopefully, no one will mind my horrible wrapping job when that day comes.