Hadley has always liked ABBA but now it’s a full on obsession. “Mom, play Mamma Mia.” comes out of the little sprite’s mouth daily. Peter TiVoed some ABBA documentary on PBS and she wants to watch it all the time. As I type she is wriggling around in her hot pink leotard to Super Trouper.

We spent most of the day outside weeding, mowing and surveying what was growing. While I was wrestling with an enormous blackberry bush I look over and Atticus was calmly sitting by the fence looking off into the distance. He was wearing pearls. It was the funniest thing. I really wish I had a camera at that moment. Just to see this huge chocolate lab hanging out in the yard wearing pearls. Hadley must have put them on him this morning sometime.

Oh, and I’d like to mention that I must be living in some sort of alternate reality. Yesterday my mom said “blogging” and today my dad said that he was “ripping music into ipod.” What the?