Seattle
Last week was interesting. Sun. was Brian's birthday and I spent the evening packing for Seattle. On Thur I flew home. Funny thing that - Sept 2. He had a good bit of timing when the first plane landed at LAX I was fumbling with my cell on the jetway so I could tell him good morning when it rang and it was bflan telling me, "Happy Anniversary." My response, "Huh!"
For those of you who continue to get upset year after year that I haven't a clue when you were married and don't wish you a good one (esp. those of you who married before I was BORN). Please note that after a mere 9 years of marriage I am completely ignorant of the significance of the date. Which is way different from a mere few years ago when we actually looked at the calendar in late August/early Sept and generally scheduled something for Oct/Nov although once we celebrated in Feb. My favorite was the year we had scheduled for Oct. and both of us called each other asking to postpone because we had something more interesting to do with separate friends. A Hallmark aficionado I am not.
Since we did have a babysitter watching the kids at home we did sorta go out to dinner. We stopped at Chipolte (Note to locals late at night don't bother trying to save time at the Manassas one, apparently their brains turn off by then.) and brought dinner home.
While in Seattle I got to see ypawtows, epawtows and Daniel after a minor comedy of errors. sometimerose was insistent that we go to the Locks so I did at least some sight seeing and not just housecleaning.* It was fun seeing actual working locks and jumping salmon. We could only get the kids back in the car so fast and we got back to the house at the same time I needed to leave to be on-time. I felt really bad when I realized I was going to be late, esp. since I had asked ypawtows to make dinner as early as possible since I had to get up for the airport the next am.
So what do you do if you're running late? You call the other parties cell phone. Well that would have worked if the cell network I was on went down for the whole metro area. It was a nice dinner. (Thanks again Eric and Yvonne and Daniel!!!) and too short a visit but such is life.
* Seriously, the best baby gift you can give someone who is having her 2nd or subsequent child is to come and clean their house, do their laundry and cook for them. Ignore them as they say its not necessary.** The key is don't come until after their family has slowed their visiting and their spouse is back to work after paternity leave. The point is not to be in the way or to tell them how you know better than them how to raise their children, it is to come in at a point when they have got things figured out and to HELP them catch up on all the things that are way less important than parenting.
** Do pay attention to what they want/like/need. Ex. If they can't stand rolled up socks and you can't pair socks without rolling them - YOU ARE NOT HELPING. After you leave they will be cranky as they take time to unroll all the socks and then they still get to fold them! Grr.
For those of you who continue to get upset year after year that I haven't a clue when you were married and don't wish you a good one (esp. those of you who married before I was BORN). Please note that after a mere 9 years of marriage I am completely ignorant of the significance of the date. Which is way different from a mere few years ago when we actually looked at the calendar in late August/early Sept and generally scheduled something for Oct/Nov although once we celebrated in Feb. My favorite was the year we had scheduled for Oct. and both of us called each other asking to postpone because we had something more interesting to do with separate friends. A Hallmark aficionado I am not.
Since we did have a babysitter watching the kids at home we did sorta go out to dinner. We stopped at Chipolte (Note to locals late at night don't bother trying to save time at the Manassas one, apparently their brains turn off by then.) and brought dinner home.
While in Seattle I got to see ypawtows, epawtows and Daniel after a minor comedy of errors. sometimerose was insistent that we go to the Locks so I did at least some sight seeing and not just housecleaning.* It was fun seeing actual working locks and jumping salmon. We could only get the kids back in the car so fast and we got back to the house at the same time I needed to leave to be on-time. I felt really bad when I realized I was going to be late, esp. since I had asked ypawtows to make dinner as early as possible since I had to get up for the airport the next am.
So what do you do if you're running late? You call the other parties cell phone. Well that would have worked if the cell network I was on went down for the whole metro area. It was a nice dinner. (Thanks again Eric and Yvonne and Daniel!!!) and too short a visit but such is life.
* Seriously, the best baby gift you can give someone who is having her 2nd or subsequent child is to come and clean their house, do their laundry and cook for them. Ignore them as they say its not necessary.** The key is don't come until after their family has slowed their visiting and their spouse is back to work after paternity leave. The point is not to be in the way or to tell them how you know better than them how to raise their children, it is to come in at a point when they have got things figured out and to HELP them catch up on all the things that are way less important than parenting.
** Do pay attention to what they want/like/need. Ex. If they can't stand rolled up socks and you can't pair socks without rolling them - YOU ARE NOT HELPING. After you leave they will be cranky as they take time to unroll all the socks and then they still get to fold them! Grr.