Things that are Totally Awesome

The last few days have brought lots of awesomeness. 

To celebrate the completion of our 5K, I made Bittersweet Chocolate-Cherry Sorbet from Cooking Light magazine and ohhhhhhhhhh was it good!  With Matthew's food allergies, we aren't able to stop at an ice cream store or buy ice cream at the grocery store.  We've been reduced to making our own soy ice cream and it's . . . not delicious.  But this?  This rich chocolate iciness with no milk or egg or peanut? 

A. MAZ. ING.

So long, soy ice cream!  Bring on the sorbets!

In more awesomeness, we made a paper city with templates from Made By Joel. 

It was so much fun that we designed some of our own.  Then we made our paper people buy bittersweet chocolate-cherry sorbet from the ice cream man and fresh fruit from the corner market.  Then, sadly, the paper people feuded, knocking each other off their stands and plowing crazily into city buses, even toppling whole city blocks.  Then there were some time outs for some people who are not paper people.

Then, to cap off our awesomeness, Cameron and I went to hear Lois Lowry!!!  We just finished reading The Willoughbys and loved it.  Could there be anything more exciting than to hear the author herself talk about how she had her grandson pose so she could draw Jane pretending to be a lamp?!? 

And then, Lois Lowry signed Cameron's copies of The Birthday Ball and Gooney Bird Greene. As our turn approached, Cameron had been quietly rehearsing.  "Hello, my name is Cameron," he whispered to himself.  "I love your book The Willoughbys."  But when he approached Lois, she was still conversing with the man who had been in front of us in line.  I watched, dismayed, as she signed our books without Cameron getting a word in edgewise.  But then!  As she handed him the books, she said, "Here you go Cameron!" and he said, loudly and clearly, "Thank you.  I love your book The Willoughbys!"  It was, for lack of a better word, awesome.