August 29, 2012
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And as of this post, I’m 38-years-old! I had a great birthday celebrating with my friends – thanks Kathy for setting it up! We kicked off the Friday celebration with wine and appetizers at Painted Cork, an art studio that provides easy directions to paint using acrylics on canvas. It was fun doing something artsy (read: non-technical) for a change .. . and we all did pretty well, although the verdict is still out on whether Sangria helped or not.
How wonderful to have friends prioritize spending time with me – I definitely felt very happy, surrounded by such awesome ladies.
After painting, we headed to a local bar for drinks (and in Bev’s case … a hot dog) and dancing. We met up with two of my teammates, Tom and Andy. Thank you all for celebrating with me!
Saturday, we went to a ‘Pirates in the Library’ fundraiser event with Alex and Nicole:
Sophie visited us, and we went to see the ‘Dolphin Tale’ movie on an outdoor screen at a local aquatic center. It was a cute movie based on a true story, and I was only mildly distracted by the whining toddler behind me. (Trust me, my kids are no angels, but I’m pretty sure that as a parent, I wouldn’t have ignored it for 30+ minutes. Seriously!) Sunday, we had Girasole pizza for lunch, followed by Nuyo frozen yogurt. I originally wanted to go out for Mikuni’s sushi, but the restaurant was closed … and Zachary cheered “Hooray! Today is my lucky day!” My actual birthday was not Zach’s lucky day though. My team took me out for sushi at Blue Nami, AND we had a family dinner at Mikunis. I can really pack away the raw fish! James gave me a Garmin GPS for my car (complete with personal installation and setup) since I am infamous for getting lost. And with a 25% off birthday coupon, I picked up a new Lululemon racerback tank, running shorts, Yogitoes yoga towel, and headband. Happy Birthday to me!
Last Friday, Kathy, Melissa, Sam, and I stayed up late playing mahjong. Then on Saturday, we spent a majority of the day at Zach’s soccer seeding tournament, where they played 5 short games between 8am-1pm. Now that the boys are older, the field is much bigger (or at least it seemed that way to me, with my dinky camera lens) and it’s much harder to run up the score.
Alice came to visit, and we went to a yoga class together. It was a community yoga class for “everyone”, and after calling to confirm it was okay, I also brought Calie. Oops. There were no other kids, and it was a real 1 hour 15 min Vinyasa Flow class! She had taken a few kids’ yoga classes and hung in there pretty well with the adults until she flipped over during ‘gorilla pose.’ She started crying, and I immediately got up to escort her out of the room … but the teacher had her sit in the front of the class during the final stretches. Alice also played games with us when she visited … she brought Zach a pack of Pokemon cards from Nintendo World in New York. Two low key weekends in a row focused on quality family time. Whoo-hoo!
We are still getting used to our school year routine … homework (Zach only so far … struggling to complete on soccer practice days), soccer (Zach), dance (Calie), swim (Zach and Calie), and exercise (I’m trying to fit in 10k jogs and yoga ta least twice a week.) We also go on an occasional bike ride … which brings us to our latest milestone. Zach is now training wheel free! We figured that if we waited too much longer, we’d have to invest in an adult-sized bike with training wheels … which seems like it might be an expensive specialty item.
