Book Club goes co-ed

Soooo...it's all about not drinking the water at book club apparently because three members of our group just had babies within the last 3 months! Jake, Neal and Bennett are adorable new members (and the only guys allowed...that might have to change until they're older when they switch over to Man and Meat Club (no joke, that's what our dudes call it when they get together when we're all at book club). Here's some pics from tonight (unfortunately missing Jake and Susan and Betty and Marley who was a ROCKSTAR and just finished her first marathon!):

Here's all of us minus a few:

Janie, Neal and Galileo - she's got her hands full!

Mary, Bennett and Karen - who ventured out just 2 weeks after her c-section! She's amazing...

And of course these book club pics made me reminisce about book clubs in the past and of course made me go and dig out pictures of the dioramas we made one time. We were all remembering how as kids we'd make dioramas for book reports in elementary school so we decided we should all make dioramas for the next book we read (which was decided BEFORE the book we chose, which just so happened to be all about strippers...hahahaha!) We were dying when we all showed up with dioramas full of stripper poles (that certainly wasn't a project we had ever worked on as kids! I remember more like teepees made of brown paper bags and clouds made from cotton balls, but never really any stripper poles, per se. Enjoy!

Can you tell there's often wine at book club?

The funniest end to this story is we threw our dioramas away in our friend Janie's alleyway dumpster and she told us later that some guy was diggin through the dumpster and she saw him pull our "works of art out" and take them with him! What someone would need with stripper dioramas makes the mind reel, but I'd like to think they made him millions in some foo-foo art gallery.