Friday morning Hubby and I distributed small children all over town and were back home by ourselves by around 11am. We spent two whole days just the two of us, and it was heavenly. The house was clean (thank you, Tanya, for cleaning my downstairs carpet last week) and is bizarrely quiet with no children in it.
Hubby commented at least six times the first day that it was weird being that quiet. Hehe. And he spends most of the day in his office! Reminds me of the first year Georgie went to school. It took me two months to get used to the massive downturn in volume level during the day.
Our weekend was thoroughly lovely and restful, and we did nothing important at all. We went to the movies twice (which is twice more than we’ve been in several months) and out to eat twice (Claim Jumper on Saturday night for our anniversary. They have the best food). We milled around the mall and stopped at Target to pick up the last few odds and ends for the new baby (everything is now cleaned, folded, and ready to go).
Oh! And I learned something new about Hubby We stopped at Costco on Saturday to pick up some new sneakers for him, but they were out of his size. Since approximately 3/4 of the city shops at Costco on Saturday, we usually try to avoid this madhouse and go during the week. We got there around lunchtime and once Hubby had checked out the shoes, he decided we should have lunch by eating all the samples that Costco apparently puts out on Saturdays.
Since he does the vast majority of the grocery shopping around here (I plan and make most of the meals and make the shopping list; he does the actual shopping), this apparently is something he’s done before and become quite expert at. You see, one mustn’t wander willy-nilly around the food section; there’s a system to eating food samples.
You have to start at the meat section (this week they had pork loin), then mill through the cheeses (hard Irish cheese that I skipped because it looked dry and gross), then head over to the refrigerator area (ravioli, which was quite good), and on to the freezer section (orange chicken which was so so). I skipped the yogurt because we eat that regularly around here, and then we continued on to the drinks a bit further down the row. In case you were wondering, strawberry flavored Propel water tastes very much like watered down Kool-Aid (which I actually spent several weeks drinking at Teen Missions) and is quite disgusting. Dessert was a bite of some organic fruit rollup-y thing.
Hubby also informed me that not only do you have to go in the right order, but you have to time it correctly so that the bites will be ready and you don’t have to wait for the servers to cook the food. Clearly, he’s put wayyyyy too much thought into this! We had to wait a bit for the orange chicken, but everything else was ready when we arrived at the station. So, that was our romantic lunch (I had eaten before we left)… My husband is an expert at food sampling at Costco. Who knew?? 
We sort of slept in on Saturday but after being awakened by small children for many years, sleeping in doesn’t come terribly naturally. However, we actually did manage to both sleep in until after ten. Even me! I haven’t slept that well in weeks. It was divine. We ate cinnamon rolls in bed (heehee) and watched TV. So relaxing and a lovely way to begin our anniversary (twelve years now)! I don’t remember ever eating breakfast in bed before. I’m sure I must have, but I can’t think of when so it must have been so long ago that it’s been deleted from the old memory banks.
So that’s it! That was our weekend. My parents brought the kids home around three and they were all a bit wacky as is the norm when they’ve been away for a couple days. They seem to have recovered nicely though, and are now behaving much more like semi-civilized people.
I’m 37.5 weeks along now so if I were to go into labor now (ha! Like that will happen), they wouldn’t do anything to stop it. Unfortunately my midwife is going out of town this weekend (yes, we have a backup midwife who is on call) so this would not be ideal timing. I had contractions for half the night last night, but they weren’t anything too serious. The baby has been dropping all day though, so between those two things I’m a mite worried that I might deliver this weekend while the midwife is gone (she leaves tomorrow). On the other hand, then I would be done which would be a big plus…. Guess we’ll see!
That’s all the news around here. Hope your weekend was charming as well.
Rachel
Written by Rachel Shubin ~ Fiendish friend for effusive fun!
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