grazie and arrivederci

i have the best blog friends in the world

my daughter is going to be so surprised when she hits the tootsie roll jackpot on her birthday
(she doesn't know i've asked you guys!)

your generosity humbles me

i hope to thank each of you in person one day
(and given that i've met a goodly amount of my blog friends already, i don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that)

look for me'n'mr scrappy on facebook

we've got the whole iphone/facebook thang down...

if my blog should be hijacked in my absence, you can be fairly certain it will be at the hands of this child...

...to whom i gave birth some 17 years and 337 days ago

Arrivederci miei amici mi troverete arrivederci a presto

[good-bye my friends, i'll see you soon!]

and in the case of this blogger and this blogger - that's actually true!