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8 August 2009 By Leave a Comment

Dorian is having his first sleepover here at home tonight. He’s slept over this boys house a few times. It’s this little boys first sleepover away from home. We’re friends with this family, we see them almost every weekend, and sometimes in between. So, all four kids are downstairs playing this evening.

The little boy, J, asks what is wrong with Malachai tonight and commented that he was all over the place.

So now I am thinking, welcome to my world kid.

I had to laugh. Malachai is so excited to have a real sleepover that he is involved in. He hasn’t slept out because he doesn’t make it though the night, and I am worried he’ll flip and I’ll get a call at 2 AM to come get him. Not a big deal, but why provoke it, right? He has been running around, having trouble concentrating on one activity, the works. Add to it that his birthday party is tomorrow and he is a live wire tonight!

All four kids are on the couch tucked in watching something or other. Michael is hanging out with them till they fall asleep.

Cuteness.

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So little to do, so much time. Strike that, reverse it.

28 July 2009 By Leave a Comment

Last night we went to Fogarty’s for dinner. They are the yum. Had a seared ahi appetizer (spit between us), I had mashed potatoes, asparagus, grouper stuffed with crab with a red pepper sauce and Michael had his steak mooing with mashed potatoes (I think), broccoli and onion rings (those thin fancy ones) and we split a piece of cheesecake.

We both brought half of our meal home – there is enough left for another two meals! I’ll be slicing his and bento’ing it for him for dinner tonight.

I got a bundle of new shirts last night – Target has them on sale, yay! They are the “tissue” weight ones I like, with cute prints on them. We picked on up for Eshiva too, but I need to add a modestly panel to the v-neck (we got it in an X-SM to be a dress, but it comes down a little too low in the collar).

I picked up a set of curlers so I can get that soft 40′s curl instead of the curl I already have. I’ll give that a try tonight after I shower.

We spent part of Sunday at a friends house, which was nice. Had a good time and I hope to head back down there again sometime. Then we rushed back home so I could finish cooking & preparing for family to come by. Gram, Zaide, Molli & Larry came over and we feasted on chicken, ribs, watermelon and a delicious trifle I made (yum, homemade amaretto whipped cream) and chatted and it was nice.

I think that wraps up my weekend. I still need to hang my stupid pot rack. I have to bring the ladder in and find the studs and mark them. Then I need to lay out the rack and figure out where the hooks need to be. It’s a process. If I miss the studs and wind up using toggle bolts, I can only put 40 pounds on it, which makes it a useless pot rack, so hope for studs!

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Stuff & Nonsense

20 June 2009 By Leave a Comment

Went to the dentist Friday morning. Had a “medium” tooth scraping and two fillings (again, same tooth). That tooth scraping is nothing more than torture you pay for. They wanted me back in three months to do it again. I’m thinking not. While we were eating lunch after, an elderly lady is staring at me and holds her hand up to her ear and winces. Didn’t anyone teach her not to stare? It amazes me that the more senior someone is, the more likely they are to stare. It’s like they stop caring about the very same social behaviors they complain are lacking in today’s youth.

Dorian slept out last night at his friends house. We wound up there from 7:30 to 12:30. J picked Michael up from work around 10, and we hung out for a bit. I kind of reached the end of my “Jenn out of the house” limit, so we came home. M & E crashed as soon as we got here. I dropped Michael off at work today and I’ll head back over there later to pick D up.

Went to the food store this morning. I spend about five times as much in food over the summer as the rest of the year. It’s insane. I bought four loaves of bread, another gallon of milk, tons of lunch meat & cheese, ribs & corn for Father’s Day, pot roast makings, cabbage, peppers, OJ, rice, and whatever else makes up the obscene amount of money I spent on “in between” shopping today. Yep, this wasn’t even my *big* trip. I do that next Friday. Eight people consume *a lot* of food.

Michael has to work on Sunday, which sucks, but he’s booked at least. Dad requested ribs & corn on the grill, so I’ll make that and (hopefully) have it ready by 5 or 6. I got three racks of ribs and 12 ears of corn. I forgot potato salad… I might just make some more.

Michael brought home his “spare” rotary machine for me. I want to set it up as a shader and see how it does. Monday, I think. Always Monday, huh? He brought it home last Monday. I don’t know where the time goes, but it sure goes somewhere.

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Weekend wrap up

16 October 2007 By Leave a Comment

First of all, Malachai just read me a book! It is the first time he has ever read me a book and I am so proud of him. Yay Malachai!

I went away for two days, and I really, really missed Michael. I don’t like not being near him. Seven years worth of marriage and I still like knowing he is near by *smiles*

Sunday I flew into Baltimore and my aunt & uncle picked me up from the airport and we went to lunch and had a nice visit. Then they dropped me at the hotel and I just kind of hung out. I had some dinner, watched some TV and went to bed a bit early.

Monday I woke up around 6:30 and got going. I showered and packed and got going. I grabbed a cab to Hopkins and was ridiculously early (I couldn’t remember how far away I was in relation to where the hotel was, so I left early to be safe) so I listened to a book on my ipod and read the paper while I waited. Kathy arrived and I filled out some paperwork, went for the blood draw, saw the nutritionist and filled out about 30 pages of questionnaire. We wrapped it up way earlier than expected and I phoned my uncle again but he was in Annapolis so I decided to give Andi a call and yay, she was available!

Had a great surprise visit with her. We ate lunch at the Inner Harbor and walked around for a bit, and then she took me to BWI. Had a great chat, I really, really enjoyed it, and we made potential plans for a little vacation. I hear she hit some nasty rush hour on the way home from BWI for which I feel terrible (I know, the rush hour wasn’t *my* fault, but it still sucks and she was stuck in it due to me).

I have other happy news, which I don’t really want to share. Suffice to say I had some nice chats with some ladies who are much smarter than me (today) and came to the conclusion that I shouldn’t turn something down because of how I perceive it, especially when the other party does not perceive it that way.

So anyway, we went mega food shopping this morning, and I picked up a pack of refillable mechanical pencils. He said, for me? I said, no, for me. You can have some too – I know he uses them at work. I said I can draw too ya know. He said I know.

Here is the happy.

My hubby has never said, yes Jenn, you can draw. This was the first time I can remember him saying I can draw.

I often bash my own art – I always have, and frankly I don’t know many people who don’t do this, regardless of their craft. My eye goes to the errors before anything else. He didn’t have to agree! lol So today he didn’t, and that makes me happy.

The other night I showed him some birds I drew, and he commented something along the lines of me being good with a line – getting the most out of it and it still being minimalist.

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Dreamland and plans

8 September 2007 By Leave a Comment

I woke up today from a dream where my mom wasn’t sick yet, but I knew she would be, and I was cuddling with her and enjoying our time. Like I had traveled back in time to enjoy it more, because I knew the future and the future was grim.

I tried to hold on to that dream. I tried to go back to sleep. It wouldn’t come back. I felt her in my arms, under my hands. I felt the texture of her skin, heard her voice, smelled her scent. We went to a circus, and talked about the kids and just had fun.We went sight-seeing, to both familiar places and new ones.

Her yartzeit was Wednesday night/Thursday day. Maybe I was sent a dream to tell me she is where she needs to be too.

I took a shower and have had some coffee and digested it. I remember it. I can still feel it, like a part of me is still there, with her.  Maybe a part of her is still here, with me.

Dorian is sleeping out tonight at a friend house (as he did last night, for Shabbos) and tomorrow she will take him to the party the kids were invited to.We’re driving up to Stuart area today to visit a friend of mine. I haven’t seen her in years, since Malachai was an infant. I am really excited :-)

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