so other than painfully missing my husband who was in wichita for the weekend at a birthday party, i had an AWESOME weekend! aaah how beautiful is life when surrounded by loving friends! my resident superhero, Elizabeth, and her trusty sidekick Matt braved the 3 hr drive to come see me with 2 little ones. i can't really imagine how much trouble it really was to make the trip, especially with Matt not feeling well and missing out on some football games, but the van was loaded down pretty well, so i'm guessing there wasnt much left at their house without them. anyway, we had a great time! they took me out to dinner and a show - the Melanie show. (highlights included "MOM! I HAVE TO GO POOOOOOP!", which is always funny... but probably not so much so to mom after the 10th or 12th time...) then Dora and Ariel helped us brush our teeth. i think we mostly slept through the night and then woke up to have some buscuits with our hair going in all directions. after getting cleaned up we then got things ready for my chocolate party (the "reason for the visit"). time in the kitchen with lizabeth - gooood. and then of course we ate chocolate. and that's good too. :)
really, the best part of it all was seeing Matt and Elizabeth as parents. You all who read this and are already parents, i dont imagine you see yourselves as i do, the one without kids... well, you might, i dont know... but it's pretty amazing. spending time with my friends this weekend was the coolest. we are all still pretty much as we were *10 years ago* in high school. matt is still quiet, still clearly wants nothing more out of life than to please and take care of his family. lizabeth is still one of the most creative, brilliant, patient and loving people i know. we can still laugh about completely rediculous things for no reason at all, she's still my best friend. but now they're all that stuff plus "mom" and "dad". and it's just the coolest thing ever for me to see. their kids are just like they are: extremely intelligent, polite, creative, all good things. i really enjoyed the experience.
unfortunately, i didnt take many pictures of their visit. elizabeth put a few up on
her blog that she took, but here are mine:
i showed melanie how to turn on and off the lamp with the little button that you hit with your foot, she was pretty excited about it.
Claire was resting up for the drive home, wanted to make sure to be on high alert for the next 3 or 4 hrs of car seat time.
2 comments:
Once again, thank you for having us! It was lots of fun. We won't wait 2 years between visits next time :) And thanks also for the compliments. I'll have you know they made me a bit misty eyed, so you've still got that writer's touch. And I'm pretty sure Melanie wants a lamp like yours for Christmas, but she isn't getting one, much to her disappointment. She also isn't getting a "Beasy", so she's just going to have to learn to live with it. I'll just say it's an excuse to come visit you instead of me being a "mean" mom ;) Maybe we can have a party to test out all of the stuff we got from your chocolate party? Sounds like a valid excuse if I ever heard one!
it made me misty-eyed to write it, but it's all true, so that's ok.
i'm down with any excuse you can come up with to drive up here again, lamps, chocolate, dogs... whatever!
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