Kind of a normal weekend around here. I’m thankful for this.
N with his team-mate at his game on Saturday:
He didn’t score any goals this week. He was severely disappointed. Even the fact that both Nane and Tim Abi were there to watch him couldn’t lift his spirits. We realize now that we were a little too enthusiastic about the goals last week and need to focus more on teaching him aspects of sportsmanship other than just scoring goals! Rookie parents.
Saturday night, we celebrated Valentine’s Day. Better late than never. Last week, we remembered it was Valentine’s Day when the greeter at the door at church wished us a Happy Valentine’s Day. He and his wife were both wearing red. I bet they had a Valentine’s Day breakfast together they left the house. We had intentions of celebrating. I had made the yummy cheese cake and J had something special hiding in the refrigerator that I had strict instructions not to open. We just temporarily forgot which day we were supposed to celebrate.
I sure wondered what could be in that bag and not going bad while it sat in the refridgerator all week!
Finally, on Saturday night, friends watched N and J and we had our celebration. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Matt and Liz! J surprised me by taking me to our favorite Turkish restaurant. Afterwards, he had a picnic packed and we went to a water wall where we had the goods that had been in the refridgerator all week. Cheese, crackers, chocolate and sparkly apple cider stuff in cute little plastic picnicy wine glasses. The mall security guard who gave us directions to the water wall said that it was just like a park in France. Now, he might have been pushing the envelope a little. I haven’t been to France in over 10 years but this one was pretty much pitch black and I decided to leave my purse in the car so as to not tempt anyone. The water wall was amazing though. Definitely worth the trip. Fun. And romantic. And we didn’t care one bit that we were a week late.
At the water wall:
My lousy, glad-I-didn’t-ruin-my-camera attempt at taking a picture of the water wall:
On Sunday, J was on call and had to work from 7 am on Sunday until 12 pm on Monday. We decided to surprise him by showing up at the hospital. It’s a long drive and was risky as he could have been answering a long call and we wouldn’t have gotten to see him. It turned out just perfect. The kids hid behind a couch in the lobby and jumped out at him when he walked around the corner. Even though he had to respond to several calls while we were there, we had fun eating at Mc Donalds and watching the train at the Children’s Hospital.
My favorite weekends are ones just like this one. The only thing that could have made it better would be if Baba hadn’t been on call.
February 22, 2010 at 11:03 am |
Also, what did you put in the “cute little plastic picnicy wine glasses?” Water? Dr. Pepper? Grape Juice?????????
February 22, 2010 at 11:02 am |
I don’t think teammate has a hyphen.