Happy New Year everyone.

I asked M. what I should write about and she recommended that I write about how awesome she is. I thought that was a good challenge, though I don’t want to call it a challenge… I mean, it’s almost too easy, right? Let me first start with the home made bagels that she made for our New Year’s brunch yesterday - salted, poppy seed, and sugar-cinnamon toppings. It doesn’t stop there, she’s an amazing cook - come over for dinner sometime and see for yourself.

Then there’s the buttons that she didn’t sew onto my coat. I pestered her for like 9 months for her to sew a button back onto my coat. And though she never did she taught me a valuable lesson about self sufficiency. Had I not sewn that one button onto my coat myself I wouldn’t have known how to sew the other three on that fell off not long after. Or, you know, she could have sewn all four of them on for me and I could have learned how to Tom Sawyer people into doing my work for me.

M.  does a wonderful job correcting my atrocious  spelling and grammar and she can even diagram sentences (but can’t manage to keep her shoelaces tied).

I also think that my M. is awesome because she’s reading this over my shoulder and I couldn’t really say otherwise at this point, could I? And that she’s patient and kind and most of all because she puts up with me.