The Good News

We spent most of the weekend trying to celebrate my B-day.  The fact is that we are not very good at it.  I told my hubby on Saturday morning that it was truly sad that when I tried to think of what I wanted to do all I could come up with were things on the to do list.  They were not indulgent, frivolous things like one should do on their b-day.  Quite honestly if I had a day to do nothing with, and I was given a good book and container of bon-bons I would probably lose my mind in guilt.  Saturday we ended up doing chores and fixing some items on vehicles.  We finished with venison stew at the inlaws.  Not exactly b-day worthy.

Sunday we tried agian.  It started with some good news.  My sister-in-law called to announce that she is expecting!  Most of us thought that this was probably an announcement that was a long way off.  She just found out and couldn't stand to keep any kind of a secret.  We went to Mass and then hoped in the car to have lunch at the Olive Garden.  We had a gift card from last Christmas that made it a little more economical to do with all the children.  The food was great.  We even brought home dessert for later.  Pumpkin cheesecake and a piece of Tirimisu.    Yum!  We did a little shopping for baby essentials and returned home to watch the Packer game.  I had to leave at half-time for CCD and we had a no fuss dinner of left overs.  I think that I finally feel as though there was a little celebrating in honor of the day Supermom was born. 

Today I have spent catching up on race things.  I spent the a.m. sending out press releases to local papers.  I intend to make a few more call and then to call it a day.  Next on the list is to secure water stop locations.  Firm up t-shirt quotes, follow-up with vendors, and finalize insurance information.  Not too much.  Just one thing at a time.  I already got a call from one of the papers about the race on the way to pick Lily up from Kindergarten at noon.  That really was good news.