Nothing going on today much.
I was driving along this morning with a cd playing and the rain pelting the roof of my van. I could just hear enough from the far back seat to know that there was some disagreement going on. Ruth 5.1 yelled up to me, "May is being really mean!" to which May 7.10 replied, "I just said she looks really cute when she's mad!" Sometimes it's really hard to keep a straight face.
Rose 1.5 is getting so grown up. And her language has just shot forward since she got her tubes in. Next week at her post-surgery followup appointment, I expect to find out her hearing (which was still in a normal range before) has gotten so much better.
May 7.10 decided a few weeks ago that she is ready to be baptized. It is such a momentous occasion, we are trying to arrange a date that will work for all our family to attend. Boy, is that not easy. First, we'd like to do it while Spitz' sister, who lives in England, is in the country in July. We picked a week, then discovered my folks would be in Michigan that weekend and my sister was committed to babysitting the whole weekend. But the following weekend, Spitz' other sister is out of town for a wedding and my parents are camping in Ohio. Nothing is ever easy, is it?
My husband will receive a Father's Day present this Sunday... as long as UPS ever decides to actually give it to me. Yesterday their tracking said the package had been sent out on a truck for delivery. But it never came. Last night the tracking site said UPS had incorrect address info and was attempting to find correct data. I called and they said the driver had returned the package to UPS and marked "address does not exist." !!! Doesn't every UPS truck have GPS or something, surely? So, customer service told me that it would not be reattempted for delivery and gave me an address to come pick it up. I spent 45 minutes trying to find the address this morning (an address that does not show up on google maps, mapquest, or bing, by the way!). When I finally called them back up, they said the package was back out on a truck for delivery today. Ack!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
13 Years
Yesterday was our 13th anniversary. It started out with a bang when Spitz' pager went off at 5:30 a.m.
It's quite a jolt to wake to a beeper; they don't seem to come with any settings other than Wake-the-Dead! In the last six years of practice when he has been on call one out of every 5 or 6 weeks, he has only had a single middle-of-the-night page. Well, until this weekend when he got paged in the middle of the night two nights in a row. Ugh!
But despite the fact that it was one of those frustrating pages where he couldn't actually do anything to be helpful in any way, the anniversary was kicked off in a very positive way. The best thing about our marriage is that we can make each other laugh. We can tell each other jokes we would never, never, NEVER tell another soul and always know just what can make the other person laugh. Even at 5:30 when we were just awakened for no good reason at all, we shared a laugh and tried to go back to sleep.
Later in the day, we had some other extremely romantic time together. (-; After dropping May 7.10 and Ruth 5.1 off at Jump-N-Art camp for the morning, we got to go grocery shopping together with just our 17-month-old! Woot! Well, seriously, it was awesome to go shopping with just one child, almost like vacation.
We did get a babysitter and went out for a matinee showing of The Hangover. (It was extremely crude, but absolutely hilarious.) Then we headed to the Limestone Restaurant. Yummy! I love getting Filet Mignon at a place that really knows what to do with it. They also had strewn rose petals all over the table because my husband mentioned that it was an anniversary - a very nice touch. The dessert, a flourless chocolate cake covered in dark chocolate ganache with port-soaked berries, was fabulous. And again we laughed together when I swore the port-soaked berries (which I have never had before, of course) tasted exactly like a childhood cough medicine I remember taking.
Another note about the day - we pulled out our wedding video and watched most of it with our daughters. They were amazed with us at how much their grandparents, cousins and aunts had changed, and shouted out one comment, "Daddy, your beard was freaky!"
It's quite a jolt to wake to a beeper; they don't seem to come with any settings other than Wake-the-Dead! In the last six years of practice when he has been on call one out of every 5 or 6 weeks, he has only had a single middle-of-the-night page. Well, until this weekend when he got paged in the middle of the night two nights in a row. Ugh!
But despite the fact that it was one of those frustrating pages where he couldn't actually do anything to be helpful in any way, the anniversary was kicked off in a very positive way. The best thing about our marriage is that we can make each other laugh. We can tell each other jokes we would never, never, NEVER tell another soul and always know just what can make the other person laugh. Even at 5:30 when we were just awakened for no good reason at all, we shared a laugh and tried to go back to sleep.
Later in the day, we had some other extremely romantic time together. (-; After dropping May 7.10 and Ruth 5.1 off at Jump-N-Art camp for the morning, we got to go grocery shopping together with just our 17-month-old! Woot! Well, seriously, it was awesome to go shopping with just one child, almost like vacation.
We did get a babysitter and went out for a matinee showing of The Hangover. (It was extremely crude, but absolutely hilarious.) Then we headed to the Limestone Restaurant. Yummy! I love getting Filet Mignon at a place that really knows what to do with it. They also had strewn rose petals all over the table because my husband mentioned that it was an anniversary - a very nice touch. The dessert, a flourless chocolate cake covered in dark chocolate ganache with port-soaked berries, was fabulous. And again we laughed together when I swore the port-soaked berries (which I have never had before, of course) tasted exactly like a childhood cough medicine I remember taking.
Another note about the day - we pulled out our wedding video and watched most of it with our daughters. They were amazed with us at how much their grandparents, cousins and aunts had changed, and shouted out one comment, "Daddy, your beard was freaky!"
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