{"id":518,"date":"2008-04-28T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T03:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2008-08-11T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:38:02","slug":"another-year-gone-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Another year gone by…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…yet, after a quick haircut, my sweet (and very smart) husband says I look younger.<\/p>\n

I must say, Friday birthdays are the BEST as it’s practically guaranteed that the festivities will last a few days. It’s even better when you share a birthday with a bff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We started celebrating with K&M last Thursday night with a wonderfully delicious dinner at Incanto<\/a> and I received a fabulous necklace<\/a> that I just love!<\/p>\n

Friday was supposed to be a “me day”. It ended up being a “mommy and me” day. Mads wasn’t feeling so well Thursday, so I brought her to the pediatrician’s office: minor chest infection that will be relieved with 10 days of amoxicillin.<\/p>\n

Though she was “sick” (she sure didn’t look like it), I wasn’t about to give up my shopping date. Mads ran around like no tomorrow and had lots of fun climbing through the clothes racks, munching on sugar-free chocolate and going through other people’s bags (sorry TZ!). Using my birthday as justification, I picked up two cute<\/a> dresses and a super cute top!<\/p>\n

After dropping Mads off at the babysitter’s, S & I made our way downtown to meet our friends B&L for dinner at Cafe de la Presse<\/a>. Next time, I’m getting the escargots – L let me have one of hers and it was so delicious, drenched in butter, garlic and tomatoes of some sort. We finished off our French fare with a chocolate pot de creme and profiteroles.<\/p>\n

\"lilo-002.jpg\"<\/a> birthdays wishes at Cafe de la Presse<\/p>\n

Now, usually, for us old folks, this is where the evening ends. Hardly the case last Friday. After dinner, we were on our way to The Ambassador<\/a> for K’s fabulous 30th birthday party. It’s been a while since S & I had been out, so we stayed as long as we could. Much to my surprise when the clock said 1.30a in the taxi. I tend to nurse my drinks, so I was in pretty good shape the next morning. (I get silly, then get very sleepy, then very grumpy if I do drink a lot.) I wish could say the same for my counterpart. Let’s just say it was a rough morning for him.<\/p>\n

Saturday, our friends JC&T came over for dinner. It wasn’t intended to be a birthday dinner but Lola brought a birthday cake from Schubert’s. I made a wonderful chicken tagine (in the slow cooker, my new kitchen bff), with couscous with golden raisins and garlic sauteed spinach.<\/p>\n

\"lilo-011.jpg\"<\/a> Strawberry Mousse Cake – yum!<\/p>\n

Sunday started off stressful (everyone is okay), but ended with an always yummy dinner at Pasquale’s. I’ve been eating there 25+ years and I still think their pizza is pretty good, though I did have the eggplant parmigiana for dinner.<\/p>\n

So, that in a large nutshell was my birthday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…yet, after a quick haircut, my sweet (and very smart) husband says I look younger. I must say, Friday birthdays are the BEST as it’s practically guaranteed that the festivities will last a few days. It’s even better when you share a birthday with a bff. We started celebrating with K&M last Thursday night with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[57,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}