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Saturday, December 23, 2006
THIS is why people get married
My bedtimes have been really awful lately. Last night I was up until 4:30, and it wasn't the first or the second time in the past three weeks that I'd done that. This Christmastime has wrecked my sleep patterns FOR EVER, I am sure (witness: it is 12:50 A.M. and not only am I not tired, I simply can't imagine going to bed right now unless it was to read -- oh bliss -- for a couple of hours). So this morning T let me sleep until 10:30ish, at which time he woke me with breakfast in bed -- eggs and toast and bacon all done perfectly -- on my very own breakfast-in-bed tray. Then at 2:30 he whisked the kids and me off to the city for dinner at the Olive Garden (mmm, Kristen and Jenn, the OLIVE GARDEN. It's even better than Panda Express!) and a walk down Christmas Tree Lane, complete with all the grumble-free photo-taking stops I wanted. We even stopped off at the biggest brightest most beautiful Joann Fabric and Crafts store ever. I didn't buy anything -- we actually stopped there because it was on the way out of town and we needed to make sure we didn't wind up in the middle of nowhere on the way home in the middle of the night in the forty-degree fog with someone who had to pee RIGHT NOW, C, I am looking at you -- but Debi and I will have to make a pilgrimage there soon, I am thinking. Just as soon as our checkbook recovers from Christmas. So maybe sometime in 2009.
Anyway, it was all just a pleasant, sweet day. T has declared that it was Day One in the Four Days of Ducky (you have to have been there on that nickname), culminating with Monday, which is my 32nd birthday, but which is also the day on which twelve or eighteen people will descend upon my cave of a house, which is currently in oh my gosh such a messy state, to eat a meal which I will have prepared for them. I can only fondly hope that the Four Days will include some serious help getting ready.
Comments
We happened to be in the same city!! Did you run into traffic that was horrible? it was for us. we had fun though. I am glad you had a good time too!!
Posted by: debi at December 23, 2006 04:50 AM
Debi, YES, ugh. We got into town around four, and surface street traffic was just amazingly bad.
Posted by: Rachel at December 23, 2006 11:18 AM
I keep looking at the Joann you speak of and I alwasy think that we NEED to go. SOON! but still cant sew! hee hee
Posted by: debi at December 23, 2006 12:26 PM
Oh Happy Birthday my sweet sister. I love you so much. I'm so happy you are having the time of your life. THIRTY-TWO. Wow. I feel like a baby ;-) It is 9:19, tomorrow is Monday and I DON'T HAVE TO GET UP AT 5AM. I'm awaiting your return ;-)
Posted by: jenn at December 24, 2006 09:19 PM
