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What is your idea of a perfect birthday?

Here's mine:

Not having to go to work :: chocolate croissant and a cappucino for breakfast at Grasso Roberto café :: Parking Authority's birthday present to me=out of order parking meter :: hanging out at the National Aviary with my mom and my girl :



: Iris' present to me=a three-hour nap :: during which I finished making new placemats and napkins :


: J cooking one of my favorite dinners (rustic pork ragout) :: and dark chocolate cupcakes with coffee buttercream :: all to be eaten and enjoyed on the porch:



: Yesterday, the day we scrubbed the porch and brought the furniture up from the basement and blew bubbles and drank wine on the porch swing in the afternoon sun, really marked the beginning of spring.

And not a minute too soon.