Beautiful news!

[castalie]

Two Starbucks in two days; I like that. And it's a good thing I had my cheesecake yesterday because I was so stuffed today that I could only get myself a hot drink. It's always a sad state of affair when the Mouse one can't eat cheesecake *nods solemnly*

Hey, I did mention that, apart from work which is annoying me, everything else was Just Fine in my life? Well, it's more than fine even because, guess what? My sister... is pregnant! I repeat, Aurélia is pregnant! *is still in awe of the news*

We've known for a little while but were waiting to officially make the announcement. And we finally can say it!

How did she tell us? She bought a little baby thing for each of us - Henry, ie the Future Dad, the parental unit, my godfather & aunt and me, obviously - and gave it to us, leaving us to squee and cry a little from sheer joy, we're a sensitive bunch, what can I say?.

Here what she gave me:



Saying we're overjoyed would be the understatement of the century, as you can imagine :-) I'm already making a list of all the things I wanna buy and then thinking of the first sonograms and just, God! A baby! In my little sister's body! Wow.

And speaking of family, it's been some time since I played over at teh_everyday so here's my new contribution, family related.

So I was thinking of taking a picture of Dean because my computer is, of course, one of my favourite possessions but then decided to go with something that is truly irreplaceable, hence those items:


This blanket belonged to my maternal grandfather. I guess it's a very basic and common item but it's kinda special to me because it was his and he loved it and for the least year of his life he kinda never went without it. So there.


My maternal grandmother's rosary and my paternal - italian, not French, so it's not as stereotypical as some foreigners would think :-) - grandfather's béret. The rosary belonged to my grandmother since she was a young girl and the béret was always on my grandfather's head when he would go out. I always thought he looked quite fetching in it.


My aunt Lucie's and - still maternal - grandmother's missals. Again, some old possessions as they had those since they were young girls.

Sadly, I don't have anything left from my paternal grandmother but I haven't lost hope that I I will one of these days *nods*

PS: Note to self, don't forget to set back the clocks tonight/tomorrow!

ETA: Dude! There's Le Jeu des Damnés Devour on NRJ12! Devour! On my telly!