so, last week while catherine and sarah were living it up on the big island i was at catherine's tending her children. it was really fun to get to know them although juliana was sick and then in an attitude of sharing, passed it on to jackson. i wiped about 10,000 snotty noses,,,no i wiped two snotty noses 10,000 times... paul, nicole and tierney spent a couple of days with us so i became acquainted with tierney (she loves rings and watches) and spent too little time with mike and fam. i did get to be there to celebrate both lizzie's and mike's birthdays. yumm, lots of cake. catherine let me purge her house. i didn't exactly ask permission but she no longer has any broken toys, her kitchen drawers are cleaned out and the kids clothes are sorted. joe was really good. he did everything i asked of him, quickly and cheerfully. i told him that if he was good we would have a party on the last day so we went off to get pizza. we parked and as we were walking to the pizza place passed a real estate office with photos of houses in the window. i said, let's go order the pizza then we'll come back and look at these pictures and buy a new house. he walked along thoughtfully and just as we reached the pizza place said, how will we carry it home? i thought he meant the pizza and said, you're big enough to carry the pizza by yourself. he said, no, the house. it's too big for us to carry and it wouldn't fit in the car.