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Weekend Plans
What are your plans this weekend?
What's been the highlight of your week?
What's been the lowlight of your week?
Re: Weekend Plans
On Sunday, we have tickets/press passes to the Chesapeake Wine Festival at the Bay Bridge Marina. Cross your fingers that it doesn't rain!
Highlight: Spending Tuesday afternoon doing a photo shoot in St. Michaels and eating a yummy (and free!) burger overlooking the harbor.
Lowlight: I was irritable on Monday, so that whole day was just kind of a bummer.
~ Kelsey Jean ~
Cooking with Crouton: A Food Blog
Happy Friday!!
Tonight--ordering Chinese--I'm so excited, I've been craving it forever.
Tomorrow and Sunday--no real plans. I'm going to visit my friend and her son one day this weekend. Other than that, cleaning and continuing to work on the girls room, DS's room is finally done.
Highlight of the week: We took LO to her first picnic on Monday at the park, it was fun
Lowlight of the week: found out that my friend had to put her 8 yr old son in hospice
I'm going to see him this week and I don't know if I will be able to keep it together. He is the sweetest little boy you would ever meet. He has been having severe trouble since birth but nobody really knows what the problem or cause is, even the doctors at Hopkins where he has been treated don't know. It's so sad.
It's my birthday weekend! That's the highlight of my week.
Friday: might get a manicure, probably get takeout, watch a movie, and finish cleaning up the house and wrapping mother's day present
Saturday: celebrating belated mother's day & my birthday
Sunday: depends on the weather
My Cooking Blog
What are your plans this weekend?
Tonight: Horses and then relaxing at home
Tomorrow: Park and then housework
Sunday: Park and then movies and dinner out
What's been the highlight of your week? Deciding we're going to Vegas and booking the trip
What's been the lowlight of your week? Hearing that my friend had a miscarriage.Tonight - Doing some wedding and graduation gift shopping, maybe picking up dinner while I'm out
Tomorrow - Cousin's wedding in Prince Frederick
Sunday - Church and hopefully getting our house picked up
Highlight of the week - Watching my belly move under Phoebe's head, who has decided that my belly is the best seat in the house.
Lowlight of the week - DH getting 80 hours of work in barely 5 days, not seeing him, him being sleep deprieved/grumpy, and his work being very unappreciative about it all. :P
Tonight: birthday and shower gift shopping, grocery shopping, maybe working on a shower cake.
Saturday: 1st birthday party for a friend's baby. Hopefully the weather isn't too horrible, because their house is going to be awfully cramped if we can't use the yard. More cake.
Sunday: Final cake decoration and then Baby shower!
ETA:
Highlight - Getting good news from several friends who have had great things happen for them lately. (babies, jobs, etc)
Lowlight - Dealing with our freakin' constantly delayed tile order. FYI - the tile shop in rockville is run by people who can't be bothered to return a phone call or keep track of a piece of paper.
My Goodness...another food blog. Featuring: Macarons from a old post with a photo taken by my mom for a break from my crappy food photos!
Tonight: organizing stuff for a flea market tomorrow
Tomorrow: praying it doesn't rain and wash us out at the flea market in the morning; afternoon I have to lector at church, and then I'm probably crashing tomorrow night!
Sunday: My nephew is making his First Communion so I'll go to church again followed by a family party
Lowlight/Highlight: they're kind both the same...my dad had hip replacement surgery on Tuesday morning so the l was an emotional wreck leading in to it because for him, it was considered a pretty risky surgery...then of course the highlight was wwhen the doctor came out with the awesome news that everything went a lot better than expected and that he was doing good coming out of it. It's been hard seeing/talking to him knowing that he's in so much pain but he's handling it really well and is determined to be on the mend.
Tonight - Watching a movie and eating pizza with DH & DD
Tomorrow - Weecycle sale and maybe go to the park with the pack
Sunday - Grocery shopping/cleaning/hanging out
Highlight - It's Friday! Seeing DD smile and become more interactive. Hearing her "coo". Staying home from work on Monday because I had to take DD to Dr. She wasn't sick, but DH was worried about her puffy eye.
Lowlight - Having daycare call me in the middle of the day to tell me that DD did not have enough milk. (Apparently, she is going through a growth spurt.) I get there and she has a 3OZ Bottle still left that would have lasted her. Although I think they might have had to use a little bit of it and they have to throw it out after an hour.
DD's growth spurt means she is waking up every 2 hours to nurse. I am so tired during the day that my supply is suffering. However, I have determined that bfing is my hill to die on as it were
I think it will just be a matter of me getting a bit more sleep and my supply catching up with DD's demand.
I am so sorry. That is one of the saddest things I've heard. I'm so sorry for your friend, her son adn their family. Heartbreaking. I will be praying for peace for them.
Does he know what's going on?
Thanks Kathryn. He has never been able to talk, walk, etc so it's hard to tell what he is thinking. My friend is so strong, you would never know the weight she is carrying around, it's unbelievable.
T&Ps for your friends family. I can't imagine how tough it must be for them. I hope they find peace through all of this.
It's also my birthday weekend! And also the highlight of my week
H and I are leaving to visit friends in NYC tonight and we're coming back Sunday. Sunday evening we'll probably clean and do laundry and stuff.
I'm excited to be trying a restaurant that has gluten-free Italian food on Saturday night. I haven't been out to eat but a few times since October. I just hope I don't end up sick on my birthday!!
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What are your plans this weekend?
Today is DH's graduation from seminary!!! We're hosting a bonfire party for the seniors tonight, and then having a party w/family and friends tomorrow to celebrate. Sunday will be church, relaxing, and prepping things for a cooking project I'm doing w/my students next week and a faculty meeting we have on Monday.
What's been the highlight of your week?
Today!!! We've been looking forward to this day for four years now!
What's been the lowlight of your week?
My FIL unexpectedly wound up in the hospital on Tuesday night... he was finally released yesterday, but he was so stressed out being there b/c he was so worried about making it to DH's graduation, not to mention all the time and work he's poured into a couple of pieces he has the choir doing today for graduation events - pieces that he wasn't able to run through w/them one final time b/c of missing rehearsals this week (he's a professor and director of music at the seminary). Just lots of unexpected stress!
... every single day of forever.
Friday: Work, dinner at home with DH, laundry
Saturday: More laundry, organizing the baby's room, housework
Sunday: Going to my baby shower!!!
Highlights: Fantastic news from friends about new pregnancies and new jobs! And very much looking forward to my shower on Sunday which is sure to be a highlight!!
Lowlights: Hearing about two 2nd trimester miscarriages from friends.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Tonight: Run to the mall for bridal shower gift, then over to my friends house for some wedding magazine reading (she just got engaged), pizza and wine.
Sat: J's gym class, massage, bridal shower
Sun: putting in some annuals and moving around our perennials, some of our hosta has gotten HUGE so we need to split a few and move them around.
Highlights: DH found out that his director is leaving and so he is being put into the asst. directors postion unofficially, but hopefully it will lead to a permanent placement and some much deserved carrer advancement for him.
Lowlight: Forgetting my keys in my jacket pocket, which I left on my chair at work and didn't realize until after my 30 minute metro ride.
Relay for Life is tonight so I'll be walking all night long with my team. The event ends Saturday at 7:30 am so I'll probably come home and sleep for a few hours. I'm going to a ballet recital for a friend's daughter tomorrow night and then spending some time with DH's family on Sunday.
Highlight of my week- coming home to DH last night since he's been away for work all week.
Lowlight of the week- Making my to-do list for the last few weeks of school and realizing I have a ton of crap I still need to do to finish out the school year.
Tonight: Date night in....DH and I went and got a bottle of wine and I am making terriyaki salmon, rice and asparagus after DS goes to bed.
Tomorrow: Mommy and me gymnastics w/DS and then I'm not sure. I might like to go to the farmer's market in the AM.
Sunday: I would really like to go to the zoo but it's going to rain so I'm not sure that will happen.
Highlight: Getting to eat outside on my new patio furniture almost every night this week!
Lowlight: Having to go into work instead of WFH 3 days this week. Such a long commute!