Goodnight!

Now I want Shepherd's Pie. Om nom nom.

Indeed! Much love to you both, lisah.

Shepherd's pie is right on. Stew without onions? Howabout garlic?

We just dyed Easter eggs. It's MUCH easier to do without Noah's "help" yet it's also the point. Much like the cupcakes we made for his birthday. Totally NOT what I wanted or would have done, but what he wanted.

Noah had to soak the blue and green dye out of his skin and I have to soak the clothe to get the yellow dye out. We made a mess.

Every time I read Starbelly, I want Sneetches to come next. And now I'm picturing Hec and JZ and Emmett and Matilda telling the workers there to "Fix it up, chappie" and obssessively getting stars painted on and taken off of their bellies. I don't think that's what actually happens at Starbelly, but I don't know, having never been to one. I do hope that whatever it is, it's appropriately Seuss themed.

I can say that Starbelly is of the NOM. And that barkeep. She is amazing.

But the big question is.... Are there sneetches!?!?!?

No sneetches, unless juliana got a new star tattoo on her belly when I wasn't looking. (Which is entirely possible.)

and that the zmayhems are enjoying juliana's company and the yum of starbelly!

It was lovely. Definitely a push in the opposite direction from the rising tide of crappiness of this month. She treated us to everything from the cheese course (fantastique!) to dessert (chocolate mousse! Fancypants rice pudding!)

Emmett loved his lime rickey and Matilda contentedly munched on her french fries with three separate dips.

Bonus: megan walker dropped by on her way home from work!

It is sneetchless. But there was an unbelievably nummy cheese plate (Emmett sampled all the cheeses, even the strong moldy one and the runny rinded one--both a first for him--and pronounced them all delicious), and fries with three different dipping sauces, and mixed olives, and mussels, and slabs of homemade bacon (which I didn't eat but did admire, and which Hec and Emmett devoured with joy), and a burger and a perfect leg and thigh of chicken, and chocolate mousse and rice pudding and a brand new cocktail, just composed by juliana, which is a brilliant success. And juliana kept coming by to check on us and give out little hairpats and shoulder rubs and extra drinks. Plus, megan walked in just as we were finishing up the rice pudding!

In short, juliana is such a goddess, words can't even come close.

Awww, that's a nice way to spend an evening.

Yes, that sounds like a great evening, even without the sneetches.

Sounds absolutely lovely and what a way to kick March's ass on its way out the door.