Thank you, dear veterans, for your service and sacrifice!
Today is Veteran’s Day. Consequently, it also marks the 1 year anniversary of the day I left Ana in the gym daycare and went home to eat eggs.
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And now, crappy pics!
On Friday night, Brian and I put the kids into Kid’s Night Out at the gym, and went out to dinner.
Remember how Collin HATES Kids Night Out because he’s usually the oldest kid there and he’s forced to color cardboard magic wands or create macaroni art? Well, this Friday wasn’t much better…
STORY TIME! I’m pretty sure “I hate my parents” was running on his mental loop.
Can you believe he never asked us if we enjoyed our meal? So rude.
Saturday morning, much to even our surprise, we went to the gym as a family. Brian took a Spin class while Collin and I ran/walked 3 miles, and Ana went into Child Care (she held onto the car keys so we couldn’t forget her). Afterwards, we headed back home to shower, passing a park along the way.
Ana: Can we go to the park?
Brian: Not right now.
Ana: But I want to!
Brian: It’s shut down…um…someone pooped on the slide.
Collin: Oh right, I heard that on the news today. They said it’s smeared everywhere!
Me: Well, that stinks! Get it?
HAHAHAHA! Everyone laughed at my pun except Ana….
Saturday night, we went to Costco, Kohls, and then out to an Italian Restaurant for dinner. Oddly, we were the youngest diners there and the most fashionably dressed…
After dropping a mint on fatty food all weekend, I decided to cook a nice healthy dinner Sunday Night…
That was stupid.
After dinner, I decided that I really, really, really, wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. I should mention that we haven’t used the fireplace in 3 years because, well…ANA. Now that she’s 4, I’m almost confident that she most likely won’t fling herself full force into the “pretty light”. But the first step was to open the flue and inspect…
By the way, I have a chimney sweep scheduled to come on Thursday. That’s right, I’ve waited 3 years to light it, yet I couldn’t wait 4 more days. I imagine I’m a very frustrating person to live with.
Here’s some of the crap I pulled out myself…
Then, not knowing what could be living in our chimney, we held our breath and lit it.
And it worked! No one (or nothing) died in the making of this fire!
Then we all sat around it, ohhing and ahhing like cavemen until the last ember went out….
That was my favorite part of the weekend.
How was your weekend?
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