I have lots and lots to say about this past weekend. The one in which my mother-in-law was here for four days. The one in which Willem told her that he's been in touch with his birth mother. The one in which we had an 8-hour birthday party for Emily and I'm still sore. The one in which I drank more, over the past three days, than I'd had in the prior four years - altogether.

But right now I'm still very tired and jumbled about it all, and I need some time to process and sort it out.

In the meantime, I have two videos to share with you. These will remain as high points of my weekend for years to come.

We watched this one at the kids-portion of Emily's party:


And then we did not watch this one while the kids were awake. Fewer questions to answer that way: