The Social Event of the Season...

...if you're a first-grader in Niskayuna, anyway.

We've got 10-15 elementary school kids who are supposed to descend upon our house a bit before lunchtime. Morituri te salutamus...

SteelyKid's birthday party invitation. SteelyKid's birthday party invitation.

Kidding aside, it's worth it, because SteelyKid is awesome, and she's super excited to have a whole mob of her friends over. I just hope the rain holds off, because I don't know where we'll put everybody if it doesn't...

(The photo is SteelyKid after taekwondo practice a month or so ago. She was demonstrating one of the forms, I think Taegeuk Il Jang, and I shot some photos. She's very fired up about taekwondo at the moment, so it seemed a good choice for her party invite...)

Anyway, don't expect to hear anything from me before Monday at the earliest.

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