Average weekend

In case you've been wondering "what have the Fortneys been up to lately," the answer is work, travel, birthdays, and a lot of weekends like this (although not often with this much contact with other humans outside our family):
Yesterday was grocery shopping and swimming lessons. Then there was a walk in the woods with friends.

Then there was a sitter, and Jonathan and I went out for dinner with more friends to celebrate his birthday. We didn't take a picture, but trust us, we looked fantastic.

After breakfasting on Jonathan's Birthday Pie, today was mostly devoted to chores. The Roomba remains exciting a month later. I don't think laundry has ever been exciting.

Murray's contribution to chores was to keep Jonathan company on the stepladder.

 The boys' contribution was... washing the trampoline.

Meanwhile, I made this.

There are generous amounts of eggplant and winter squash in it, and there may be generous amounts of wine in me after all that time in the kitchen. I resisted the temptation to put on the Christmas music, but I'm not making any promises for next weekend.