augh! what do you mean, "return to sender?"

How frustrating! Apparently, the Post Office charges sixty-four cents each to mail square envelopes, so about half of Annelise's birthday party invites came back to us... The *other* half, for whatever reason, were acceptable and were forwarded to their proper recipients. The Postal Service is a mystery to me.

From this experience we have decided not to offer anymore square cards.

These are the rules. Read them and take heed. On a positive note, all the stickers they placed over the recipients' addresses peeled off easily! Now, I'm off to the Post Office to get some additional stampage. Annelise's party must go on!

une fête pour deux.

photo by Alicia Carrier

Our daughter is turning three in a few days, and I will be turning 36 (!) a couple of weeks after that. In celebration, we are having a joint birthday party. This is not the same kind of "joint birthday party" I used to have in college (my birthday is 4/20)... time changes all things.

Annelise drew up a splendid picture of a "birthday party on a boat," so we are using it for the invite. How many three-year-olds, I ask you, have letterpressed invitations? Just one that we know of. It was fun to do something whimsical where we didn't have to worry about the color registration for a change.

I wish we could actually have a party on a boat, but that would be waaaaay out of our budget. Besides, after spending all of last year planning our elaborate wedding, we will probably keep this party fairly low-key. It will be as chill as a roomful of toddlers can be!

Cheers, Jason.