In love and stuff

our little get away to k-zoo was not even 24 hours but it was absolutely lovely. but before i get into that let me briefly talk about the build up.

big daddy and i have not taken a getaway from the kiddos in 7 years. there was one night when the monkey was two or three that we had a night off in our own home but that ended up as a poopy night. we dropped him off at 7pm at my brothers (my mom was there too) and my mom dropped him off at 11am after letting his stay up for about 4 hours in the middle of the night watching cartoons so to say the least he was a nightmare when we got him home.

so we planned this getaway to k-zoo a couple of months ago- one night away. i have been on call for a client and she called on tuesday to update and tell me they scheduled her for an induction next tuesday and her husband was thinking the baby would come on saturday (the day we were to jet out of town) so i was very anxious about missing this night away. big daddy would understand but it would be disappointing. he worked really hard finding a hotel and places to eat. he was awesome.

i get a call on thursday about the drs wanting to induce my client. ok, i thought, although i was not too sure about why they wanted to induce her- the reasons are still pretty questionable. they ended up calling me in on friday morning and after a long hard laboring the baby arrived saturday morning. i was home by 8am (on 1 hour of sleep) in time for big daddy to go to school and for me to take the kids to martial arts class (a make up class since he missed thursday-we had a false alarm with the induction and i went in on thursday night only to be sent home). after that i cleaned the kids rooms like a mad woman we played webkinz (i am totally hooked on cash cow) and watched chronicles of narnia. big daddy got home from school we packed waited for my mom and we were off. got to k-zoo at 7ish.

it took us about 40 minutes to find the damn hotel and calling twice for directions. bad direction giving by the receptionist. big daddy went in and got the key and we were off to dinner at The London Grille as suggested. IT WAS AWESOME!!! appetizer, we both had steaks, he had a beer i had an irish coffee and we split a nice scotch. thanks time for the great suggestion. it was a really great evening over all. absolutely great to hang out with my lovely husband uninterrupted. i forgot how much i really love hanging out with him- jackass and all.

we were planning on sleeping in but the biological alarm clocks would not allow. so we lazed and loafed a bit and were out by 10:30. breakfast was iffy but the coffe on the way out of toen made up for it. it was from the water street coffee across form bells brewery. i wish we had breakfast there. the ride home was fun. i did a postpartum visit at the hospital while big daddy read in the lobby. and home we went.

we got the kids new webkinz which they were totally geeked over- the monkey really wanted the platypus looking one and pouted about it when we went to frankenmuth a couple of weeks ago. and my mom wanted the house rearranged for the BIG thanksgiving dinner (of which i still need to buy a lot of stuff for the 100 mile local thanksgiving) so we whipped that up (it looks great actually and there is room for the free stand up piano i am looking for) and were off to friends house for dinner. bi-bim-bop. it was wonderful company and homemade bi-bim-bop cannot be beat. btw i think big daddy has found his long lost brother in jackasshood. it is heeeelarious.

after that i dropped the kiddos at home and was off to practice the songe i am to sing at my grandfather memorial on wednesday. i didnt even know the song until tonight. that was causing some stress but now i feel a little better. i just hope i dont get all sappy and cry or get shaky voice from nerves. that would suck.

this week is going to be strange and very busy. i will be happy to have it behind me. then i have to bust out these two projects and i will be golden. it kind of sucks that i have to have a close cut deadline to get anything done.

ps- thanks to those who checked in on me this weekend and sent happy thoughts. that makes a gal happy. ;)

btw. i totally want to move to k-zoo.