Another Birthday

Yesterday our family celebrated my eldest step-son's birthday. He's just nine days younger than my youngest, so he's gone from being the eldest of three to being the middle of five. Fortunately, since my boys live on their own, this hasn't been as dramatic a change as it might have been.

We had another of our wonderful homemade meals, featuring all Klaus' favorite foods (macaroni and cheese, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, beet and spinach greens, and gnocchi with marinara sauce, with an apple trifle for dessert). Everyone came away from the table stuffed.

Politics dominated the dinner conversation and we're very lucky that to be able to share the same joys and sadnesses about the recent election, since we're all excited and hopeful about President-elect Obama's win and disappointed by the passing of Arizona's Proposition 102 and similar measures elsewhere.

Heading for TusCon

I'll be heading over to the InnSuites in just a few hours for TusCon 35. For information about my schedule, see my post: Tuscon 35 Program.

ETA: Karl and I will be reading this evening at 8:30 p.m. Although I don't know how much we'll actually get through, we're planning on doing a joint reading of "Ship's Daughter," with additional readings by each of us, which may include both prose and poetry. It should be a fun evening. :)