Rob had his first birthday celebration (which is Monday) today at Federal Grill. We met Kitty, Cathy, and Sharon for lunch and while the food was delicious as always, the company was reason alone to celebrate. Cathy's youngest, Hannah, recently announced her engagement so we talked about wedding plans, as well as my nephew David's pending nuptials in December to Lyscha, whom we all met at Mom's memorial service last September. They were also eager to hear all about his new house, which he just moved into on Monday. As I told him... he has the rest of his life to unpack.

We brought enough food home for dinner, too. I'm certain he's thrilled that now that I've moved back to civilization, he doesn't have to pretend to enjoy my healthy, but not very tasty, cooking anymore (not that he was ever a good pretender, or actually even made the effort).

It was a good day.