Madeleine is no longer a teenager!  She hit the big 20 this year!  You know your kids are grown up when they ask for things like a voice recorder and the Chicago Manual of Style for their birthday and actually get super excited when they get them!

As we often do, we celebrated Madeleine’s and Alan’s birthdays together — this time on Madeleine’s actual birthday.  But I did make Alan halusky (his favorite dinner) closer to his birthday — which by the way started out with four inches of snow on the ground!