Let It Be Me

Day 1 in the UP. Woke up late, hung around the house sipping coffee and talking with the in laws as they played with N. K. had scheduled a lot of visiting today, N.'s social schedule was pretty booked. First we went to town to drop off N. with Aunt Cookie's, cousin F. was there. Then took K's car at the Ford dealer, then borrowed K's mom's car to go shopping at Shopko. Bought a new pair of running shoes, threw my old shoes in the garbage and wore my new Nike trail runners around the rest of the day. Met up with some family friends at Shopko, then visited Aunt M. at the grocery store. Then visited A. and her new baby T. T. was there, he was fixing up their nursery upstairs with his brother. Baby T. looks just like a cabbage patch doll, very cute, but in a different way than N. Then went home, and went to the school to see Cousin M. performing in her first school play - cousin A. and husband M. were there. Lots of cute kids. Met some of K's high school friends there - they were either pregnant or with their kids. I really like cute kids, I was struck by how different it is to raise baby boys than girls - they are a lot more work, but also seem more 'fun' from a dad's perspective. Fell asleep early again on the couch.