The party went really well - no rain at all and the food went smoothly. The thing is though, about half of the people that we expected actually came. Many of my friends have really messy lives - and some of the other people are just not close friends - and the all had good reasons for not coming, I am sure. It just makes me feel really lonely - like when I got married and none of my friends could pull it together to be bridesmaids and I had to ask my sister-in-law who I hardly knew. We had twice as much food, drinks and tent as we needed.

We had a wonderful fire out behind the barn and we kept it going 2 nights. The bounce house was amazing and worth every penny. It was like a big box that you put kids in. They were literally hanging from the sides. I hope someone got a picture of that. Aidan was scared of it and would only go into it the night before the party with Steve for a few minutes. He's scared of a lot of things lately - or else he is just more articulate and couldn't tell me that things were scary before. The pinata was great fun although Aidan startd crying at first - I think that mostly it was over-stimulation. I held him and explained that the toys were going to come out of it when it broke and he got a huge smile on his face and gave it a couple of whacks.

Steve's drumming friends mostly all came and that was just amazing. I was really worried about the noise reverberating down the hill and scaring the livestock and such, but it wasn't that loud and I don't think it bothered anyone. It sounded wonderful and they are talking about coming up again and having a gathering of just the drummers.

We have an accepted offer on this house we want as of Saturday. I'll post a picture soon. I can't believe it is finally happening. As soon as I'm done here I'll be spending the rest of the day in mortgage and real estate land. It's exhausting and already I'll be really glad when its over.