i'm sick of writing about restaurants.

maybe it's a phase, maybe i'm having doubts about my final five, but right now at this very moment, i am dunzo.

i mean, it goes without saying that food is awesome and restaurants, too, are awesome.

but when i went to

ceviche

last week with the tampa contingency of my extended family,

i didn't want to think about what i was eating, i didn't want to compare it to other stuff, or be the dufus that doesn't let anyone eat until everything has been photographed,

i just wanted to make silly faces at little mia. and talk about my uncanny desire for a faux fur vest with mum.

so i think i'll just say this about the restaurant, and then talk about how awesome my family is.

this: ceviche, in tampa, has delicious tapas food and even deliciouser sangria.

it is absolutely worth going to, should you ever find yourself in tampa {and you've already been to bern's.}

this is a picture of me and stoopie with our cousin jamie and her two kids, mia and ellie.

i used to think little kids were the devil and that they didn't become real people until they somehow caught up to my age. but then mia and ellie started walking and talking and they never became the devil. instead they just gave me great big hugs and showed me how awesome little buddies are. it's like someone threw them in the cool pool. sweet!
last year i taught mia some of my tambourine excerpts. it eased the pain of having to practice tambourine excerpts over thanksgiving.
and this year ellie proved to us that she is the next anna-sophie mutter.

this is more of my pretty family!

we have a thing for circle scarves, apparently.

it's a pretty american family. the day after thanksgiving usually involves the men watching football and the women going to the mall. and then at night we all go to the center of town for the christmas tree lighting ceremony...even though this perplexes ellie on account of, we're jewish.

but, anywho, we've got a baseball card shop, a photographer, and the designer bra strap company in our family.

incredible, i know!