Usually, once we’re done with a book, we have to move on to the next so quickly that we don’t even catch a whiff of the proverbial roses. But today, we forced ourselves pause a moment to celebrate the arrival of the very first Bobbledy book.

This morning, Robbi dropped me off at my office in Baltimore and then drove down to Columbia to pick up our books from the fine folks at Indigo Ink. They did an amazing job. From the paper to the printing, to the simulated endpapers, I couldn’t be happier with how the books turned out.

We were feeling so good that we thumbed our noses at the gods of frugality and picked up some sushi on the way home.

After dinner, we decided to memorialize the milestone by signing a first copy of the book for our archives.

First Robbi:

Then I:

We can’t afford to dwell for long on the moment. Tomorrow, it’s on to something else. On to eight other things, in fact.

But tonight, for about five minutes, we felt really good about what we had done.