Hope She Brought You Chocolate Bimbi Eggs...

"Did the Easter Bunny visit you?" 

OK, so it has been awhile. You'll have that. Besides busyness in general, I happened to be working on my template in March when Blogger was working on their system, and my template evaporated. Blogger apologized, but in the meantime I had to start from scratch, because I didn't have the damn template saved to disc---just to the hard drive of my old computer, which was toast a long time ago. So. Let that be a lesson! Typing code isn't much fun.

Meanwhile, I found this cute picture from a street fest last year. We went to hear the l'il one's favorite Stones tribute band, Jack Flash. We once went to hear them at the coffeehouse for an acoustic set, and she eagerly joined in when they got the audience singing along with "Ruby Tuesday". Long after the song was over, and the lead singer was introducing the next song, you could still hear her little voice in the background singing, "....good-bye, Roobee Toosday...."

Her rossa bandera is not an inspiration from Il Postino, but an impromptu accessory spawned from our earlier visit to Angela's Taste of Italy. Angela's parents run an alterations shop off in the back, and she races in to see them every time we visit. They don't speak much English, and she doesn't speak much Italian, but their "grandparentese" is most excellent. They spoil her with bacciddus, and she raids the scrap box for interesting material. Her lefty instincts are either impeccable, or she's hearing the voices of her ancestors....I'm not sure which! Well, at least folks won't mistake her for being Republican!