How much can we accomplish in one weekend?
The answer for me is usually a lot! Here's the review of what was happening at the H-Haus:
Friday, my lovely sister Heidi volunteered to watch Cooper so we could have an actual date night. Jeff surprised me with a very extravagant night. We started at KoKo where Jeff loves to have cocktails. It was nice, my drink was a little yucky, but I should know better than to order martinis anymore, I just can't drink them. From KoKo we headed to Republic Chophouse, the newest most trendy Green Bay restaurant. It was delish: pretzel bread with cheese butter, bacon-wrapped scallops, french onion soup, a steak served with a shot of Jameson, some very good red wine from Chile, and Red Velvet Cake for dessert. I even felt like we were young and fun again.
Saturday, I headed out to UW-Green Bay for the Outstanding Student Award interviews, always nice to be there, did some shopping in the bookstore which is now located in the Union, then cruised through Walmart. Came home, had lunch with the boys, then headed to Barnes & Noble and JCPenny for some Christmas shopping. Finally stopped at the Kress library to pick up the December Mothers & More bookclub book.
Today, we cleaned the entire house, read the paper, paid bills, I did some reading, made a tie-blankie for my sister and made chicken with brown rice for dinner.
Also this weekend we started the holiday negotiation with Jeff's family, as usual, it is not easy, no on seems to be happy and Jeff already feels bad about an event that is a month away. I don't understand why everyone doesn't do it the way my family does, show-up, eat a lot, drink even more and play Catch Phrase while you are loaded. My plan is to bring a bottle of wine to each location, pretend like I am going to share it and then drink both bottles myself. And when I am serious about how the holidays are going to go I don't mess around. I do recall making the statement after one particularly horrible holiday session, "That's it, I am not going there next year, I will either be pregnant, have a newborn I can't travel with, or poison myself." And wouldn't you just know it, the next year Cooper was born. Before anyone can post a smart comment about getting knocked up to avoid the 09 holiday season, let me be clear - I will be poisoning myself in 09 NOT having a baby!
I am tired, I am cranky, and I am going to bed.
3 comments:
Oh my goodness. . . I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard! Tis the Season - let us enjoy the crazy in-law schedules! I think you have a good approach - drink A LOT of red wine. Since I have to deal with the crazy in-laws of mine w/o any wine, please feel free to drink my share! :)
Love - Jamie
Thankfully, we do giftmas with Chad's family on a non-holiday weekend whenever it's convenient for US. My parents get giftmas eve, and we just let Misty take the kids on giftmas day. It's a nice system we've worked out. :) Seriously, if we did giftmas on his family's terms, I'd just stay home or poison myself or whatever.
Amen Angie.
The negotiations have started here as well. Let it be known that I am stocking up on some "holiday cheer" AKA red wine. We also plan to see the Vince Vaughn movie Four Christmases in hopes that it will provide some much needed therapy.
Hang in there...I know that's easy to say.
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