Skim at 39
Getting a big birthday hug from Lola:
posted by Skim @ 6:02 PM
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Ideas for My Date?
I’m kind of at a loss.
Chris and I have a date this Thursday - a real date. Friends are watching the kids during the best hours of the day and we don’t have to pick them up until 2:30. Because of the timing, watching a movie at the theater is out, but we can eat lunch somewhere if we want.
But I want to make it special, since we haven’t had a date close to home since before the kids were even born. Over six years ago. Our last date was in Eau Claire a couple months ago, two precious hours while friends there watched the girls. And a lot has happened since then - I feel so much better than I have, we got married and had a party, Pearl has night-weaned, and we both feel like things are changing for us, for the better. Plus I’m officially a year older, as of Sunday.
Our local kid-sitting friends live about 20 minutes from us; theoretically we could come back home and have over 3 hours of silence or shenanigans.But it seems more appropriate to mark the occasion somehow with a special event or thing or ??? I’m just at a loss. Part of the problem is that I haven’t spent any real time thinking about what I would love to do - I mean, the obvious ones are so obvious: food, sex, silence. But what makes it special?
Send your good ideas our way, drop me a comment or email.
Chris and I have a date this Thursday - a real date. Friends are watching the kids during the best hours of the day and we don’t have to pick them up until 2:30. Because of the timing, watching a movie at the theater is out, but we can eat lunch somewhere if we want.
But I want to make it special, since we haven’t had a date close to home since before the kids were even born. Over six years ago. Our last date was in Eau Claire a couple months ago, two precious hours while friends there watched the girls. And a lot has happened since then - I feel so much better than I have, we got married and had a party, Pearl has night-weaned, and we both feel like things are changing for us, for the better. Plus I’m officially a year older, as of Sunday.
Our local kid-sitting friends live about 20 minutes from us; theoretically we could come back home and have over 3 hours of silence or shenanigans.But it seems more appropriate to mark the occasion somehow with a special event or thing or ??? I’m just at a loss. Part of the problem is that I haven’t spent any real time thinking about what I would love to do - I mean, the obvious ones are so obvious: food, sex, silence. But what makes it special?
Send your good ideas our way, drop me a comment or email.
posted by Skim @ 5:53 PM
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me
Today I am officially one year from 40.
We are celebrating by eating a breakfast made entirely by Chris, the girls are dusting the house, and Lola gave me an entire Flat Rate Priority Mail box of little presents -- some hand made and some bought -- this morning. Chris bought me a 6 pack of awesome Bourbon Barrel Barleywine (!!!) from a Wisconsin brewery and another hand mixer (??!). Additionally, this morning he is cleaning my car inside and out. And this afternoon, I will eat home-made cherry pie with home-made whipped cream, and visit the Boyceville Cucumber Festival to see the parade. All in all, I feel pretty good!
So happy darned birthday to me, darnit!
We are celebrating by eating a breakfast made entirely by Chris, the girls are dusting the house, and Lola gave me an entire Flat Rate Priority Mail box of little presents -- some hand made and some bought -- this morning. Chris bought me a 6 pack of awesome Bourbon Barrel Barleywine (!!!) from a Wisconsin brewery and another hand mixer (??!). Additionally, this morning he is cleaning my car inside and out. And this afternoon, I will eat home-made cherry pie with home-made whipped cream, and visit the Boyceville Cucumber Festival to see the parade. All in all, I feel pretty good!
So happy darned birthday to me, darnit!
posted by Skim @ 8:23 AM
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