Sunday night chill ~

Well the weekend is winding down and its been a fun, eventful one. Saturday was the coaches vs the kids bowling tournament and the boys loved it. Trenton bowled his all time high of 129. I am so proud of him. Ryan bowled well to and the kids had a good time. Saturday night my parents came over for dinner and that was really nice. Chris cooked us a great dinner and then we played Scattergories. Very successful dinner and a very pleasant evening with the parents.
Sunday was a cold trip to the Sk8 park in Cary so the boys could skateboard and then home. Denise and Las came over with the boys and we hung out and had some dinner. It was nice to play catch up with them.. its been too long.
Trenton and Chris are now discussing the big science project and how to do it and what they want to do ... this could be quite the undertaking!! Ideas are often way bigger than can be handled! Back to homework ~

Updates are good ~

Tonight was our first soccer practice and it was cancelled due to weather. I mean really, who wants to play soccer in 32 degrees and rain? I have done it before, and its fun, but gets old really quick. I dreaded it all day, not because of Trenton because I knew he would have fun doing it, but because as a mere spectator on the sideline, I have a hard enough time just sitting there watching. And somehow sitting and watching in 32 degrees and rain, didn't make it any more appealing to me.
Overall, its been a pretty good week.... Monday was a bank holiday and I took Tuesday off because Trenton was out of school. It was really nice just to spend some time with him. Chris stayed up late with him Monday night playing video games online. All of Chris' gaming buddies were calling him Patches Jr. ~ it made Trenton feel sooo good! He is definitely our emotional child.. not in the sense of moody emotional, but in the sense of the deep meaning of emotions and the way they impact us... much more so than Ryan. It is very important to him that Chris sees him like a son and he does, so it makes things easy. I think he actually enjoys it when people call Chris his dad ~ he tells me its because he is like a second dad to him ~ :)

Mondays are fun ~

Its Presidents' Day, the bank was closed today and my boy is HOME. Overall it was a pretty good day. Went out Friday night for Chris' bday with some friends and drank a toast to Jim who has already left ~ and so the countdown begins until he returns home to us!!! We spent some of the weekend shopping and I am becoming a high maintenance woman. I tell ya... watch out world!
They say that clothes make the woman ~ well ~ I hope so, cuz thanks to some designer (and I mean REAL NICE) hand-me-downs, my new purse, a pair of second hand sun-glasses and a pair of shoes that resemble the name of a famous brand of purses, I looked HOT Friday night and feel like a new woman ~ there was nothing that said 'mommy' about me this weekend!
Hope everyone is well ~ and yes, I am still me ~ just a slighter better dressing version of ME!!

Valentine's Day

In less than two hours it will be Valentine's Day ~ that day of pressure and getting the perfect gift for that special someone. Finding good cards that say what you want them to say can be exhausting, frustrating and expensive!!!
Well, we cheated and opened gifts tonight... see its also Chris birthday tomorrow, and with work and bowling and such, we decided to open gifts tonight. He got to open his birthday presents early when the boys were here, as we did a special dinner out to 42nd street oyster bar with them and presents. He got new shorts, a shirt, and the Call of Duty 4 game for the pc... he really wanted that one. So tonight he only had one gift to open.. it was two tickets to go see Blue Man Group in two weeks at the RBC Center. I think he really likes it actually.. I was a bit worried, because its outside of a 'norm' gift, but I thought it would be different and fun. Memories is what its all about after all.. right?
So the man got me a black Dooney & Bourke purse.. its gorgeous.. its the Nile which is the style and its my first REAL purse ( you know, that costs more than 29.99). I am thrilled with this gift as its something that I really wanted. How nice it is to have someone who pays attention to what I really want..... ;-)

Sick child ~

So as every mother has experienced at least once in her life, I sent Trenton off to school last Wednesday morning with a 'sore throat and cough' so he said. He went to dad's that afternoon and Thursday I received a phone call in the morning that he was staying home from school. Normally I would have been mad, but he genuinely sounded 'off'. Friday morning he called me by 10am and said 'can you pick me up NOW?'.. Yeppp.. the kid is not feeling well. He rested all day Friday and looked like he had been beat up. Baggy eyes, half open and flushed red cheeks.. it was pitiful. Saturday he felt better and played some but took a shower and ASKED to go to bed at 9:30pm.. uhh this is NOT my child. After gagging at 6am from coughing so hard, he was better and back to sleep. 12 hours of sleep and he was up and ready to go again... he played and had a good day, but in the afternoon I could tell he was tireddddd. We went to 42nd street oyster bar with the boys to celebrate Chris' birthday dinner and once home, he asked if he could go to bed again. My son was in bed by 7:30pm.. those that know Trenton, just know that is just not normal. I sure hope he gets better soon...mommies hate it when their kids feel bad.

A quiet Saturday

I can't believe its been a whole week since I last blogged ~ I am already getting slack ~ geez!

Anyhow, today was a crazy day, crazy in the sense that we drove 3 hours to Roanoke, VA to buy toe shoes.... yes toe shoes... for Chris. HAHA. Just goes to show that we are some crazy people. So we taught bowling this morning and then took off on our 3 hour drive. It was a nice day all together but we were tired by the time we got home.. which was around 8pm.

Jim is home for a week ~ we get to see him tomorrow. Looking forward to that! Looking forward to Greg and Missy's superbowl party tomorrow night too ~ Go PATS!!!