Scenes
Scene: Dinner at our favorite local bar. Sweets. Me. Mamas. Baby Z. Fried cheese curds. Burgers. Beer. Baby Z and I played straw tug-o-war. With our teeth.
Scene: 6AM wake-up. Without an alarm. Long walk with SoMi. Trek to the gym with Sweets and our neighbors. Birthday brunch for our neighbor at another neighborhood favorite. It was my first time there. Bread pudding. Spicy bean cakes. Fruity pancakes and French toast. Coffee and OJ.
Scene: Two bloggers-turned-friends and me. Izzes. Guacamole. Salsa. Chips. Tomatoes. Carrots. Hummus. Recaps of BlogHer (theirs). Recaps of registries (mine). Heirloom tomatoes. Goat cheese. Fresh peach vinaigrette. Homemade pizzas. Sliced potatoes. Goat cheese. Mozzarella. Leeks. Bacon. Rosemary. Discussions of sperm banks. And $55 million court settlements. (Unrelated to one another.) Ice cream. Homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Homemade caramel. Full. Happy.
Scene: Buy Buy Baby. Strollers. City Select versus UPPABaby Vista. Car seats. Chicco versus Graco. Play-yards. Graco versus Graco on steroids. Pillow crib bumper with risks of SIDS versus mesh crib bumper with risk of bruised heads. Registry officially started. Nursery furniture officially purchased. Still so much more to do.
Scene: Lunch with Sweets’ parents. Trip to park with the dogs. SoMi dashing in and out of water. Stories of Maine and Cape Cod (ours). Recaps with photos of volunteering in Roatan (theirs). Conversations of childbirth in America.
Scene: Nilsa passing out on Sunday night. It was one helluva a long and busy weekend. I wouldn’t change a thing.
August 16th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Sounds like a weekend full of great food!
August 16th, 2010 at 8:13 am
Such a fun weekend and a very fun Saturday evening :) Great job on getting the registry started. I bet Sweets had fun with the bar code scanner!
August 16th, 2010 at 8:26 am
It’s so cool that you guys live so close to Sweets’ family and the Baby Mamas. I really miss living by family. Sounds like you had a great weekend!
August 16th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Yum! You had a friend and family filled weekend! I have still not made it into M Henry since we tried a few years back. We did have breakfast at Over Easy though, I love that place.
August 16th, 2010 at 9:05 am
You had me at chips & salsa, and it just got better with homemade caramel & Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies =)
August 16th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Wow that IS a busy weekend! Chock-full of fun activities though :) Sounds like you ate lots of yummy food, too!!
August 16th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Sounds wonderfully full and lovely!
Mostly this weekend I sweated in my oven of an apartment.
August 16th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Sounds like an awesome weekend. All that food sounds AMAZING to me right now!
Have you made a stroller decision? It’s so hard! Plus, you have about a million more options since you don’t need a double.
August 16th, 2010 at 9:48 am
We don’t have Buy Buy Baby in Denver (at least not yet… boo), so we ventured to Babies R Us this weekend to try to make a lot of those decisions. And we made them! We haven’t bought anything yet but our registry is almost done and we feel very pleased about that.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Sounds like an incredibly full, wonderful weekend. I’m excited that you started a registry. I would imagine its completely daunting trying to decide what you need/want for a whole new little being.
August 16th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Sounds like a great weekend. I am sensing a little focus on food these days. Food, friends and family seems like an idea weekend!
August 16th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
You did have a full weekend!! Sounds fabulous, though. Especially the food part! Glad you got going on the registry! Wish we would get a Buy Buy Baby here. My friend is AZ that is pregnant is also registering there & said it’s a great store. Maybe some day they will enter the Minneapolis Market!
August 16th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
All your tomato and cheese talk nearly put me over the edge. That sounds lovely! And congrats on getting registered. I’m sure it felt good to check that off the list!
August 16th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Wow! What a weekend indeed! I would like to fastforward about three weeks :)
August 16th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
There is so much choice when it comes to baby products these days, it must be making your head spin.
August 16th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
I am intigued by Roatan volunteering. My fave place on the planet!
August 16th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Sounds so fun! Glad you had a great weekend.
August 16th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Sounds like a great weekend! Hope you’re enjoying the cooler weather now that the humidity broke. Oh and I can’t wait to see the nursery furniture you got!
August 20th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Sounds like a great weekend! Mine consisted of unpacking, unpacking and taking out boxes… exhausting but very fulfilling to see the end result.