“Yo-mama-ween”* April 15, 2008
Posted by spacemom in : Current Affairs , 1 comment so farThis was a great weekend. Seriously great!
We skipped gymnastics class yesterday so we could play. play and play and play with Becky’s kids. It was so much fun. Even though her kids are older, our girls got along GREAT with them. They arrived on Saturday just in time for McDonald’s and a run to the Old North Bridge. Everything in this area is a little more spiffy right now because of Patriots’ Day coming up. (What? You’ve never heard of Patriots’ Day? go…follow the link…You probably never heard of Evacuation Day either …and NO it’s not the day before your colonoscopy!)(please read this last link, k?)
Jay and S(11 year old boy) took the girls to their final ice skating session. Becky and I took E( 9 year old girl) to The Orchard (the Alcott house), but a tour was just coming in. We opted to come back. Apparently skating was great with blood and everything! Luna was trying to get ahead of a pack of girls and tripped, managed to smash her lip, her gums and teeth. Blood everywhere! Way to go Luna! The rink was out of ice packs because the day before a woman had done a header in soccer (it’s a turf on one side of the building and the ice rink on the other) and shattered her leg when she landed. So they got Luna a strawberry ice pop. Yeah- try to figure out the blood from a strawberry when it’s a mouth injury!
The good news is that both girls are now ready for basic figure skating 1 or basic hockey skating 1. I WANT them to do hockey, but no, they want figure skating…
The kids wore themselves out and went to bed late. Sunday was just as crazy, but we let the kids hang at home all day. Becky and I went back to The Orchard, since we could get a tour this time. Decided that the Girl Scouts need to be at least in 4th grade before they could handle that tour. At lunch time, Crazy H and Kobiashi arrived to pick up the plastic Little Tike stuff in our yard. We’re getting the new playset in May, so I wanted the plastic to go away. Of course, Crazy H’s sister was there and her kids, so we had 14 people at our house. FOURTEEN PEOPLE! And of course it was lunch time and of course H&K hadn’t thought about the fact their kids were STARVING, so we fed 14 people for lunch.
Soleil had a Girl Scout meeting, E & Luna fell asleep, S watched TV all afternoon. Sigh….
The great thing was that Becky and I got to talk. Becky’s husband, Corey, died January 6, 2000. Military accident. It was the worst day ever. EVER. E was 6 months old at the time. We talked about Corey. We talked about her. I wish I could be there more for her. I wish I could find someway for her to help work through the pain. I wish I could help her see that she’s never going to "Get over" Corey’s death, but that she can find peace with it. These are the times I wished I lived closer.
But that is the nature of today’s world, when we live so far away from each other.
* Didn’t you watch the You Tube from the last post? Hello? We spent the whole weekend saying "Yo-mama-ween". They also brought me a whole crapload of Sabre stuff! I’m in hockey heaven!
