Ahhhhh. The smell of burning plastic permeates the house, mini-me is crabby, and I’m blogging. Yes, it’s a typical day for the Gray family. I get so freakin’ stressed out when we have company over to the house. I completely enjoy having friends over, I just love it; but at the same time I obsessively want everything to be “just right” and thus worry myself a new ulcer each time we throw a party.
Today’s cause for a party is we’re celebrating Thomas’ second birthday. His actual birthday isn’t until the 23rd but generally speaking birthday parties work better on the weekend than midweek. After all, not everyone is a minister and gets take vacation days whenever they need them. <sidenote>Man, I love ministry</sidenote>
What a great day for a shindig! It’s a beautiful 80o and sunny in Atlanta today. My folks drove down from Chicago for this party which was very cool of them; Thomas just loves having them around considering he only gets to see them twice a year.
We’ll be torching some hotdogs and burgers on the grill in a few hours; that being followed by my son opening all his presents. He’s the first grandchild on both sides of the family so we’re expecting a good haul this year. I’ll post pics of some of his gifts on my flickr gallery so stay tuned to that for gift updates.
Are you still wondering why there’s the smell of burning plastic? Simply because a Nalgene bottle was put in the bottom rack of the dishwasher, its lid slipped between the bars and sizzled its way to oblivion on one of the heater coils at the bottom. Darn it that was a nice bottle.
