Weekend Update with...me
This has been a pretty great weekend, all things considered (not to be confused with Weekend All Things Considered). Friday night, Dude picked up some mondo burritos from a hole-in-the-wall place near here where English is spoken only limitedly. We shared a chorizo burrito and a chile rellenos burrito. Goooooooood stuff, I tell you. Plus I made margaritas. And, my friends, I should let the cat out of the bag and tell you that I make some of the best margaritas in the whole wide world - not too sour, not too sweet, not too boozy, just super delicious. That's a little perk left over from my bartending days (I make an excellent cosmo, as well). Anyway - yummy dinner and cocktails and then some serious lazing around after the girls went to bed.
Saturday morning was spent doing a little prep work for moving - taking apart our bed frame, packing up a few random things, blah, blah. After the girls got up from their early afternoon nap, though, we took them to the children's museum. SO fun. Dude had never been and Belly and Buggy hadn't been in awhile, so it was like discovering it all new for the first time. We also met the girls' friend Wesley and his mom there. I really like her. They're going to be moving sorta near our new house soon, too, so it'll be nice to have a built-in friend already over there. Here's a picture of Belly, Wesley and the Bug in the water room at the museum. In this picture, Buggy looks exactly like Erika did when she was a tiny tot.
After the museum, we went to the store to grab dinner provisions. Dude and I each carried a kid. I had the Bug and I gave her a sample of a little pastry when we walked in. About five minutes later, I realized that she was making a funny face. She still had that food in her mouth! I kept trying to get her open her mouth but she wouldn't do it. She made all kinds of crazy faces, though, and I was busting up laughing as I walked through the store. She's a really funny kid. I should post a montage of her goofy faces repertoire sometime.
So we came home, fed girlies, bathed them and put them to bed. Well, Dude did. I spent most of that time making this awesome catfish (dredged in spices, egg whites, crushed cornflakes; baked; drizzled with spicy sauce; sorta like buffalo chicken but with fish). As soon as the girls were down, we ate and then watched a movie. We spooned on the couch just like in the days of yore. Seriously - I asked Dude if he remembered the last time we watched a movie like that and he said it was when I was still pregnant. It felt so good to be doing something that we used to do all the time. Like we were regaining part of "us."
It's funny how having a kid (or in our case, kids) takes such a toll on marital intimacy. I'm not talking about sex per se, but more the random snuggling and physical closeness. There's always a kid or two who wants to be in the lap or otherwise between us. It was a wonderful luxury to spend a full two hours that close to each other without being asleep.
This morning got off to a lazy start and Bri came over (as she does most Sunday mornings). I made fatty breakfast burritos. I drank copious amounts of coffee. I basically accomplished very little today and just played with the girls. That is how Sunday should be.
Tomorrow we sign the paperwork for the house. Tuesday is a "processing" day. On Wednesday, the Pricks do their signing and we should have the keys Wednesday evening. After everything we've been through (and there is still a little drama surrounding getting our down payment money transferred from our account in DC - but I have every confidence that will be sorted out tomorrow morning), I will only believe the Charmer is ours when, well, it's ours. But I so can't wait for it to be ours!!
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