Hello from Florida, my friends! It is balls hot here and I got a sunburn. Yesterday I walked from the car to the house and I burst into flame. D’oh. The girls were surprised to see me - Freakniece #1 walked right past me at school because she “thought [I] was a stranger,” and Freakniece #2 just stared at me, squealed, and then grabbed one of her daycare friends and yelled proudly, “LOOK, DAT IS MY AUNT DEBBIE!”

Yesterday was Freakniece #1’s birthday party. Much fun. Including her and her sister, there were six kids running around and all I remember is about three hours of screaming. My friend Jimy turned to me at one point after peeling one of his daughters off his leg and remarked, “Excellent birth control, isn’t it?” I raised my very full glass of pinot grigio to him. The kids had a great time, though, and there’s just something about a little girl running around in an Alice in Wonderland dress that’s too adorable for words.

I made Freakniece a cupcake cake for her party. She requested chocolate cakes and asked me to “draw Hello Kitty in the middle, okay, and up here you write ‘Happy Birthday’ and under Hello Kitty you write my name and please do a lot of pink.” Mission accomplished, and I’ll post a photo when I get home.

Also, my nieces can sing all the words to “Fergalicious.”

I KNOW.