Catching Up
Back to the routine... I've been able to write more in the past few weeks because DH had his laptop home during vacation and I'd sit with the kids and catch up during the day. Not so much anymore.
I think we're finally recovered from last week's football game. We had a great time. I'm so glad we were there. I didn't imagine being so sad about the outcome. It was hard to read the newspaper the next day. It was like the journalists had been waiting for 2.5 years to write horrible things about the football players. No one gave them credit for putting together a winning streak of 30+ games. They were just talking about all their mistakes and all that. Texas was good, well Vince Young was great... sucks for them that he's going pro early. Good for him. Friday's newspaper was a bit better and had nice things to say. I mean these guys are kids!
Moving on...
Kid funny:
We went to Pick Up Stix for dinner tonight and started to play some games while waiting for our food. We were doing that memory thing where everyone goes to the grocery store and buys something and you have to remember what everyone else bought. It got to DS's turn and he instantly decided to be funny and make up some random things. He's so funny. We were continuing the game on the way home and it was DH's turn and he said "I went to the grocery store and I picked .. my nose" DS instantly got the humor and laughed. DD didn't. They have such a totally different sense of humor.
We had the most boring day today. Did a quick post office errand with DS, then went to the park for a while. We got home around 11AM and he wanted to play on the computer. We did that seemingly forever. Even ate a sandwich while doing it. I couldn't talk him into doing anything else and I didn't feel like fighting an almost 3 year old. Finally he was done with that and we watched Dumbo, then it was time to pick up his sister. Boring. Tomorrow is dentist day, I get my teeth cleaned in the morning while the kids are at school and they both go to their dentist in the afternoon. The fun never ends.
I can't believe his bday is in 2 weeks, how'd he get to be 3? DD is already having a hard time with it. She hates not being in the spotlight. The latest is that she's been talking about helping him blow out the candles and every time she mentions it, he gets mad and says she can't help. I think she's finally getting the point to just drop the discussion, but it's going to be a hard day. She had a hard time on his first 2 bdays too. For this time we've talked about a few jobs she can have. She's asked to be in charge of making sure that the kids have tokens during the party and she wants to help pass out the cake. Then she wants to help write down gifts when he opens them.
The kids' school has a Parents' Night Out once a month. This is the first month the kids have gone this school year because of conflicts (mostly football games). Our really good friends also take their kids and we've double-dated a few times. We weren't planning to do anything together this past weekend and it was kind of funny as it was almost harder to try not to do something together. We were both planning to do dinner and a movie separately. But we don't have such a huge window so the movie choices are a bit limited and they said they may actually end up at the same movie. We got dinner on our own and as we were driving into the lot of the movie theaters, we saw them driving out. I picked up my phone and called my friend and she answered laughing harder than I thought possible. Once she calmed down, she said she was drunk and they were going home. She was laughing because her DH had asked what she was going to tell me the next day and then I called... probably a funnier story in person... but it was funny. The funnier part was that my DH and I decided to go home as well. Partly because regular movie prices are $10 each and we *never* go at a non-matinee price, partly because parking sucked and I wasn't all that excited about our movie choices anyway. We went to Coldstone and brought ice cream home and watched a movie. We did laugh about our friends who were most definately *not* watching a movie :-) Thankfully we picked up our kids about 15 minutes after they did, so we didn't have to deal with the embarassing "I know what you've been doing" looks.
On a different note... A few weeks ago would have been the 35th birthday of a friend of mine who was killed in a car crash while we were in college. In her memory a big group of us got together for a nice lunch. It was a few people I see frequently and some I haven't seen in forever. She was an amazing young person and had a ton of friends, it was really nice to remember her. Her mom has a non-profit foundation to support people who have lost loved ones and we each made donations to that group. I got the nicest note in the mail today from my friend's mom. She basically thanked me for remembering her daughter and said that she had a wonderful life and wonderful friends. I have to think that writing notes to the people who went to the party wasn't easy. This friend and I became friends when we were in Kindergarten. I've thought about her a lot lately as my daughter is in Kindergarten. Seems like things have come full circle.
DH just commented that I have a lot to say. I guess I'll stop now.
I think we're finally recovered from last week's football game. We had a great time. I'm so glad we were there. I didn't imagine being so sad about the outcome. It was hard to read the newspaper the next day. It was like the journalists had been waiting for 2.5 years to write horrible things about the football players. No one gave them credit for putting together a winning streak of 30+ games. They were just talking about all their mistakes and all that. Texas was good, well Vince Young was great... sucks for them that he's going pro early. Good for him. Friday's newspaper was a bit better and had nice things to say. I mean these guys are kids!
Moving on...
Kid funny:
We went to Pick Up Stix for dinner tonight and started to play some games while waiting for our food. We were doing that memory thing where everyone goes to the grocery store and buys something and you have to remember what everyone else bought. It got to DS's turn and he instantly decided to be funny and make up some random things. He's so funny. We were continuing the game on the way home and it was DH's turn and he said "I went to the grocery store and I picked .. my nose" DS instantly got the humor and laughed. DD didn't. They have such a totally different sense of humor.
We had the most boring day today. Did a quick post office errand with DS, then went to the park for a while. We got home around 11AM and he wanted to play on the computer. We did that seemingly forever. Even ate a sandwich while doing it. I couldn't talk him into doing anything else and I didn't feel like fighting an almost 3 year old. Finally he was done with that and we watched Dumbo, then it was time to pick up his sister. Boring. Tomorrow is dentist day, I get my teeth cleaned in the morning while the kids are at school and they both go to their dentist in the afternoon. The fun never ends.
I can't believe his bday is in 2 weeks, how'd he get to be 3? DD is already having a hard time with it. She hates not being in the spotlight. The latest is that she's been talking about helping him blow out the candles and every time she mentions it, he gets mad and says she can't help. I think she's finally getting the point to just drop the discussion, but it's going to be a hard day. She had a hard time on his first 2 bdays too. For this time we've talked about a few jobs she can have. She's asked to be in charge of making sure that the kids have tokens during the party and she wants to help pass out the cake. Then she wants to help write down gifts when he opens them.
The kids' school has a Parents' Night Out once a month. This is the first month the kids have gone this school year because of conflicts (mostly football games). Our really good friends also take their kids and we've double-dated a few times. We weren't planning to do anything together this past weekend and it was kind of funny as it was almost harder to try not to do something together. We were both planning to do dinner and a movie separately. But we don't have such a huge window so the movie choices are a bit limited and they said they may actually end up at the same movie. We got dinner on our own and as we were driving into the lot of the movie theaters, we saw them driving out. I picked up my phone and called my friend and she answered laughing harder than I thought possible. Once she calmed down, she said she was drunk and they were going home. She was laughing because her DH had asked what she was going to tell me the next day and then I called... probably a funnier story in person... but it was funny. The funnier part was that my DH and I decided to go home as well. Partly because regular movie prices are $10 each and we *never* go at a non-matinee price, partly because parking sucked and I wasn't all that excited about our movie choices anyway. We went to Coldstone and brought ice cream home and watched a movie. We did laugh about our friends who were most definately *not* watching a movie :-) Thankfully we picked up our kids about 15 minutes after they did, so we didn't have to deal with the embarassing "I know what you've been doing" looks.
On a different note... A few weeks ago would have been the 35th birthday of a friend of mine who was killed in a car crash while we were in college. In her memory a big group of us got together for a nice lunch. It was a few people I see frequently and some I haven't seen in forever. She was an amazing young person and had a ton of friends, it was really nice to remember her. Her mom has a non-profit foundation to support people who have lost loved ones and we each made donations to that group. I got the nicest note in the mail today from my friend's mom. She basically thanked me for remembering her daughter and said that she had a wonderful life and wonderful friends. I have to think that writing notes to the people who went to the party wasn't easy. This friend and I became friends when we were in Kindergarten. I've thought about her a lot lately as my daughter is in Kindergarten. Seems like things have come full circle.
DH just commented that I have a lot to say. I guess I'll stop now.