It’s been a nice three day weekend around here except for the part where Caroline just remembered at 9:00 p.m. that she had a bunch of makeup math homework due tomorrow from the two days of school she missed last week.
Related note: I just poured myself another glass of wine and opened up a box of Thin Mints.
On Friday night Caroline had plans with friends and P was at the ranch, so I had a couple of friends over and hung out until the late hour of 8:00 p.m. when I decided I was in need of my pajamas and the couch. Caroline got home about 9:15 and I managed to stay awake until 10:15 before we crashed for the night.
Saturday morning was delightful, mainly because P took the puppies to the ranch and that meant I got to sleep in for the first time in ages. And the truth is some stupid birds woke me up with all their cheerful chirping and greeting of the day around 7:30 but I was able to roll right back over and pass out until 9:15 and I don’t feel even one bit bad about it.
Then Caroline had more plans because her social life is much more interesting than mine these days and I cleaned up the house and attempted to organize a few things before I braved Central Market. Apparently this is where everyone in the greater San Antonio decided to spend their Valentine’s Day afternoon because it was packed. PACKED. There were all manner of people buying exotic fruits and fancy pastries and special crackers to celebrate their Valentine.
As for me, I bought some Romaine lettuce, a bottle of wine and some sour cream because I am just that fancy.
Later that evening most of my dad’s whole side of the family came over for pizza. We hardly ever all get together these days because everyone is busy and scattered, but my aunt and uncle were in from Houston and so a big group of us decided it would be fun to catch up. That whole side of the family is Italian so I’ll tell you that in addition to being a lot of fun, it was also very loud.
At one point I looked around the room and saw Caroline playing with my cousins’ kids and my sister’s kids and thought how amazed my Me-Ma and Pa-Pa would be if they were here to see it all. All this family and this next generation that’s coming up. We all spent so much time at their house when we were all little kids that it’s hard to believe we’re now all full grown adults with kids of our own.
If you could hear me this might be when I’d choose to sing a chorus of Circle of Life from The Lion King. And maybe I could hold Mabel over my head for dramatic purposes.
P got home on Sunday and we spent the rest of the day just relaxing and catching up on all our various activities. I also chose to bathe all three dogs since the weather was supposed to get cold and I decided if they were going to spend that much time inside I’d prefer that they not smell like the owl poop they found to roll in while at the ranch.
Piper and Scout are not fans of the bath and barely tolerate it, but I think Mabel would ask for bubble bath and candles if she were aware of the concept. She thoroughly enjoys a good bath which I think can be traced to all the hydrotherapy I had to give her while she recovered from her javelina injuries.
Yes, that’s a real sentence that I just typed.
Then on Monday we celebrated President’s Day with a morning soccer camp and then avoiding the rain and the cold by lying on the couch and watching movies. I also cooked a big pot of red beans and rice which happens to be one of my favorite cold weather meals that I’ve neglected to cook all winter because no one else in my house loves it as much as I do. But I loved myself so much when I ate a big bowl of it with homemade cornbread just a little bit of go. There was a fire in the fireplace and the sound of rain falling outside and I thought life couldn’t get much better.
Until Caroline remembered all that math homework. And I remembered that I don’t know how to convert percentages into fractions.