A lovely weekend
I can't believe it's been a week since I posted. I think it took me about that long to recover from the shock of the Sharpie marker incident. I am ever so thankful that I can now laugh about it.
I have a lovely weekend to report to the world. Friday night Joe and I stayed up past our bedtimes watching Frontier House on DVD. I'm really loving this Netflix thing. After I finish this entry, I'm going to go watch a disc of Sex and The City - I missed the last half of the last season when it aired on HBO.
Saturday morning I got up and ran over to the Yarnery to teach the first session of my new Beginning Knitting class. Lots of nice people again - I've had extraordinary luck this quarter with pleasant students who learn well...or maybe I've just been less crabby or something.
I came home and spent the afternoon cooking. I baked special allergen-free chocolate cake with white frosting and a pizza too. We were headed to Julie's cousin Katelyn's second birthday party, and I wanted her to have similar food to eat as the rest of the kids at the party. Both turned out well, and I have to say the chocolate cake Julie got to eat was a lot tastier than the store-bought lemon cake served at the party. The pizza on the other hand, while tasty enough and a fine substitue for Julie, didn't begin to compete with the cheesy goodness of the Davanni's delivery.
The party was at a toddler gym place called JW Tumbles, and there were about 15 kids running around having a good time. Julie fell asleep in the car and had a little power-nap during the first part, but woke up in time to play and eat and play some more. It was a blast. We forgot to take the camera, but hopefully can score some of the pictures that Katelyn's parents took. Afterwards, we went over to their house to watch them open the huge haul of gifts, and by the time we got home I was wiped out and I think I fell asleep before Julie did.
Speaking of which...Julie has been sleeping in her new bed the last two nights. She is very excited about her Hello Kitty sheets and seems to really enjoy having her own space. We're still laying down with her till she falls asleep, and last night I didn't move to our bed till 4:30 in the morning when Joe finally tore himself from the video games or whatever he was doing and came to bed. Silly boy. Joe is up there now probably doing the same thing I did last night.
Today I got up and made pancakes for breakfast with Julie, then got to work cleaning and cooking for tonight. We had invited my cousin Ron and his wife Molly over for a barbecue rib dinner, and the house was a bit of a wreck. Having people over is always such good motivation to pick up all the toys, do a little vacuume and sweep, clean up the rotting Halloween pumpkin off the front steps...you know how it is. Finally, oh Finally, the guy from Home Depot came and picked up the cabinets that needed to be returned. I'm so glad to have them out of the way! I even gave him a few of my homemade brownies to thank him - he picked them up in his own vehicle and I think on his own time because Home Depot corporate apparently sucks at customer service in a way that most of their employees do not.
Dinner came together well - I finally managed to make sweet potato fries without blackening them, and the ribs came out nice and tender, if a little too salty. I made brownies with walnuts and we had those for dessert with vanilla ice cream...mmmm! Ron and Molly are always fun to catch up with, and although they don't have kids of their own, they are very good with Julie. She was having all kinds of fun showing Ron her toys. I'm pretty sure he was the first person other than me and Joe to make her laugh.
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So anyway, I had more fun this weekend than I've had in quite some time, and it was good. Plus I have a clean house and a bunch of leftover ribs and brownies. Now to go top it all off with some quality trashy TV and a little knitting, and life will be complete!
I have a lovely weekend to report to the world. Friday night Joe and I stayed up past our bedtimes watching Frontier House on DVD. I'm really loving this Netflix thing. After I finish this entry, I'm going to go watch a disc of Sex and The City - I missed the last half of the last season when it aired on HBO.
Saturday morning I got up and ran over to the Yarnery to teach the first session of my new Beginning Knitting class. Lots of nice people again - I've had extraordinary luck this quarter with pleasant students who learn well...or maybe I've just been less crabby or something.
I came home and spent the afternoon cooking. I baked special allergen-free chocolate cake with white frosting and a pizza too. We were headed to Julie's cousin Katelyn's second birthday party, and I wanted her to have similar food to eat as the rest of the kids at the party. Both turned out well, and I have to say the chocolate cake Julie got to eat was a lot tastier than the store-bought lemon cake served at the party. The pizza on the other hand, while tasty enough and a fine substitue for Julie, didn't begin to compete with the cheesy goodness of the Davanni's delivery.
The party was at a toddler gym place called JW Tumbles, and there were about 15 kids running around having a good time. Julie fell asleep in the car and had a little power-nap during the first part, but woke up in time to play and eat and play some more. It was a blast. We forgot to take the camera, but hopefully can score some of the pictures that Katelyn's parents took. Afterwards, we went over to their house to watch them open the huge haul of gifts, and by the time we got home I was wiped out and I think I fell asleep before Julie did.
Speaking of which...Julie has been sleeping in her new bed the last two nights. She is very excited about her Hello Kitty sheets and seems to really enjoy having her own space. We're still laying down with her till she falls asleep, and last night I didn't move to our bed till 4:30 in the morning when Joe finally tore himself from the video games or whatever he was doing and came to bed. Silly boy. Joe is up there now probably doing the same thing I did last night.
Today I got up and made pancakes for breakfast with Julie, then got to work cleaning and cooking for tonight. We had invited my cousin Ron and his wife Molly over for a barbecue rib dinner, and the house was a bit of a wreck. Having people over is always such good motivation to pick up all the toys, do a little vacuume and sweep, clean up the rotting Halloween pumpkin off the front steps...you know how it is. Finally, oh Finally, the guy from Home Depot came and picked up the cabinets that needed to be returned. I'm so glad to have them out of the way! I even gave him a few of my homemade brownies to thank him - he picked them up in his own vehicle and I think on his own time because Home Depot corporate apparently sucks at customer service in a way that most of their employees do not.
Dinner came together well - I finally managed to make sweet potato fries without blackening them, and the ribs came out nice and tender, if a little too salty. I made brownies with walnuts and we had those for dessert with vanilla ice cream...mmmm! Ron and Molly are always fun to catch up with, and although they don't have kids of their own, they are very good with Julie. She was having all kinds of fun showing Ron her toys. I'm pretty sure he was the first person other than me and Joe to make her laugh.
see?So anyway, I had more fun this weekend than I've had in quite some time, and it was good. Plus I have a clean house and a bunch of leftover ribs and brownies. Now to go top it all off with some quality trashy TV and a little knitting, and life will be complete!
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