Mystery Pasta

Dinner was necessarily simple after yet another hectic weekend. The kids had themselves a sleepover at Grammy's and Boppy's house Saturday night. The kids have been talking about this every day for the last month and a half. We had doubts that our son understood the concept of sleepover (though he did sleep there when the baby was born). He proved us wrong by spending the night.

While the kids were away, we took the baby to the Szechuan House in Lutherville. This was something of a birthday dinner for Robin since we had visitors on her birthday. It may not seem like much of a romantic meal, having a baby in tow, but it was nice to enjoy a dinner without one or more kids constantly talking. Afterwards, we drove down to Baltimore to get cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory.

Today our daughter began first grade. She claimed it was a gazillion times better than fireworks night ("a gazillion is a real number, right?"). Dinner, although tasty and satisfying, was hardly worthy of marking the occasion. So after dinner, we went to Beach Bums in Towson for some ice cream.