Pie day

Busy day today. I worked extra on my writing/editing work; I want to get ahead for our trip to Florida next week. Phil took Violet away to his mom's house, where she reportedly chatted to the animal figurines and put them to bed over and over again. That's her favorite activity these days. She lays them down, and she covers them up and says "Go sleep, baby!" Then she hunches over them and shushes you if you talk, or if you absentmindedly break into a chorus of "Ghostbusters," which, I can't help it, goes through my head a lot. Who you gonna call? That's one catchy song.

While they were gone I also went up to the store to get my pie supplies. I'm having a pie party tomorrow, and I'm making two strawberry-rhubarb pies, a Fritos pie and a coconut cream. So I bought a gigantic bag of groceries and an extra pie plate at the Goodwill up the street and lugged it all home and made piecrusts. It was foggy and cold outside and cozy inside as I puttered around toasting coconut and smushing up graham crackers.

Later, Cait came over to babysit. Phil and I went to see the movie "Once," it was really fabulous. Afterward I wanted to go for a cocktail or some Indian food but Mr. Excitement was tired so we just came home. That's about it.