weekend reunions & homemade gnocchi

our family @ the beach~summer 2011

this weekend is one of our "visitation weekends":  when our little family can be together for several hours.  67.5 hours, to be exact.  M flies in tomorrow and our doggie (& moi) are so psyched to see him.  plans for go-kart races, Da VinCi machines exhibit, a birthday picnic, homemade meals and tons of TLC.  you now have permission to salivate, thinking about the gnocchi from scratch and the checkered-flag exhilaration on the go-kart lanes.


i'm trying to not be the biggest complainer, but why can't i have these "visitations" happen every day??  i miss my husband and i'm officially doing a countdown until when his plane lands...12.50 hours.  doggie doesn't know it, but she's doing the countdown too.