of books and birthdays.

I've just finished reading Bill Bryson's book, Notes from a Big Country, which was a good read after living in England for a little while. Bryson writes about Americans living in England, and about returning to America from there; very very funny. And I recently finished Dara Wier's book, Reverse Rapture, an incredible work of poetry.  Now I've started these! So far Tree of Codes is amazing! Flannery O'Connor is too. (More on these books as I read them.)

Mom's birthday was last week and Megan's is this coming week so we celebrated the both of them at Erin & Trey's place with a homemade Tuna Niçoise salad, Aunt Janet's now famous key lime pie, and a blueberry tart that I baked! In other cooking news, I made fresh pasta (spinach & whole wheat) today, for the first time in a while, keeping my fingers crossed.

Love of Mothers, Family, & Crawfish.

Blaine and Uncle Jr. bring the crawfish to the table. 

For Mother's Day we drove down to visit the family; Uncle Jr. boiled us a most delicious batch of crawfish. It was such a treat to spend the afternoon together, eating crawfish, talking, enjoying a nice breeze, and being grateful for Moms! 

Megan picks a good one.

Brandon and Grant get started. And might be plotting the age old trick on me!

YUM!
And because it was Mother's Day. . . 

Thanks to all the Moms out there!