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Weekend and stuff
Mar. 15th, 2009 09:29 pmThe weekend was pretty good. We slept in late both days, late being 8:00 and 7:30. It's late for me anyway. Got much needed sleep.
I picked up my son Nick and my grandson Jason Thursday. They're visiting for two weeks. How does that equate to a pretty good weekend? Well, Nick has been incredibly helpful and useful around the house and Jason has been wonderfully well behaved. It's a big change since the last time we saw them at Thanksgiving when I wanted to beat him most of the time. Nellie couldn't come out because of work. I wonder if her absence is the difference in Jason's behavior.
Saturday was spent cleaning the house, doing laundry and shopping. We spent a lot of money this weekend. We ended up getting Monique a new Blackberry 9000 Bold. She's very excited about having a GPS built completely into her phone and being able to get her work email on her phone. We also bought three Disney movies for Jason, Pinochio, Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid. We watched the first two Saturday night with Jason and Nick. I had forgotten how much fun Disney movies can be.
We had a great moment with Jason. Monique figured she'd get him banana chips to try and get something a little healthier into him than potato chips. We had a big build-up about them as being special chips just for him. You have to trick him into eating most things. He's pretty fussy. He very enthusiastically bit into one. Then his face scrunched up and he spit it out back onto the plate and said, "That's disgusting!" He doesn't speak well at all for his age, but this came out clear as a bell. It was hysterical coming from a three year old.
Today Monique and I worked together on the backlog of mail and bills. We hadn't opened mail in about 3 months. It was a painful way to spend a lot of hours on a weekend, but it feels good to have it done.
Tonight was the end of an era for my flute choir. One of our founding members is leaving us to take a new job in New Orleans. Tonight was his final rehearsal. We worked on some pieces for a church job we're doing in May and then spent the last half hour doing whatever music he wanted to do as a going away present. It was a lot of fun.
I picked up my son Nick and my grandson Jason Thursday. They're visiting for two weeks. How does that equate to a pretty good weekend? Well, Nick has been incredibly helpful and useful around the house and Jason has been wonderfully well behaved. It's a big change since the last time we saw them at Thanksgiving when I wanted to beat him most of the time. Nellie couldn't come out because of work. I wonder if her absence is the difference in Jason's behavior.
Saturday was spent cleaning the house, doing laundry and shopping. We spent a lot of money this weekend. We ended up getting Monique a new Blackberry 9000 Bold. She's very excited about having a GPS built completely into her phone and being able to get her work email on her phone. We also bought three Disney movies for Jason, Pinochio, Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid. We watched the first two Saturday night with Jason and Nick. I had forgotten how much fun Disney movies can be.
We had a great moment with Jason. Monique figured she'd get him banana chips to try and get something a little healthier into him than potato chips. We had a big build-up about them as being special chips just for him. You have to trick him into eating most things. He's pretty fussy. He very enthusiastically bit into one. Then his face scrunched up and he spit it out back onto the plate and said, "That's disgusting!" He doesn't speak well at all for his age, but this came out clear as a bell. It was hysterical coming from a three year old.
Today Monique and I worked together on the backlog of mail and bills. We hadn't opened mail in about 3 months. It was a painful way to spend a lot of hours on a weekend, but it feels good to have it done.
Tonight was the end of an era for my flute choir. One of our founding members is leaving us to take a new job in New Orleans. Tonight was his final rehearsal. We worked on some pieces for a church job we're doing in May and then spent the last half hour doing whatever music he wanted to do as a going away present. It was a lot of fun.
