Recent Items of Interest

Recent items of interest since my last post:

1) Jeremiah and I celebrated our 7th Anniversary! Since we're short on time right now, we recalled our glorious weekend away in March while having a nice dinner at a local restaurant and then watching the sunset on a community pier. 

2) That day Jeremiah had to work and I hosted Camp Keep Em Busy (a collaboration with some of my friends who have kids J.'s age. We each take all the kids for one day of fun and that equates to a week of camp for the kids and a few days of special C. and mommy time for us.)  Hosting camp was very fun. On my day the highlights were: we played water games in the kiddie pool, did the bubbles and chalk and bicycle thing in the driveway, made homemade paper with seeds imbedded inside (anyone remember that that was our wedding favor 7 years ago?), played board games, and made friendship bracelets out of pipe cleaners. 

3) We were all sick at the end of last week. We each got a nasty mix of stomach virus, cold, and flu.  We're all healed now, other than J.'s lingering chest congestion and C.'s lack of appetite (that's not new though). 

4) I had lovely time to myself this past weekend. I went to a dance club on Friday night with some friends. It's by the airport. And we were 5-10 years older than the guys trying to dance with us. And my friends were the first and third ladies eliminated from the dirty dancing contest on stage (out of ten).  So from an outsiders' point of view, maybe we were lame. But we had an awesome time with our bad selves. The band was kickin and they played rock and heavy metal. Then in between sets it switched to hip hop and dance music!  It was a very weird flow but we stayed on the dance floor for hours and hours anyhow, making the most of whatever music came our way!

5) I had a nice brunch with Charlotte, fresh from Colorado, right before she took her plane home again. Two hours is not enough time to visit with someone that you used to finish sentences for. I forgot how much I miss her!

6)  Today I went to the gym twice. Once with the kids in the morning for a yoga class (and got called out of class early to go change C.'s diaper) and again when Jeremiah unexpectantly came home early. He got to play with the kids and do dinner duty so I could run off for an exercise-dance class.  Nice!

7)  I am RELIEVED to say that I finally got ahold of the insurance company and they received and are processing my application to include maternity coverage! So when we're ready for it, it'll be there for us.