Thursday morning we took Sam to school together as a family. It was fun to see Dan get to see Sam doing his thing at school. Sam really seemed to enjoy it. He sat in Daddy's lap at circle time and participated in a lot of the songs.
After class we went out for brunch at Perkin's. Then we went home and got a few things done around the house, but mostly just vegged out. I made mushroom pasta for dinner.
Friday we took Sam to the Children's Museum for the first time. He seemed to like it, but of course, he found the very few things he was not supposed to touch, in a place where you're allowed to touch practically everything. (A security keypad and a fire extinguisher on one wall; also some cleaning equipment from one of the face painting stations being put away.) I think in another year when he's better at following instructions and we're able to get him more excited about imaginative play, it will be a cool place to go. We went with Jena and Reese this time, who have a membership, so Reese is an expert at having fun there. Afterward we had lunch at Subway as a group, and later that night Dan and I had the all-you-can-eat fish fry at Baker's Square, which was yummy. Sam ate our fries.
Saturday was busy. At lunch time I got together at Panera with four old friends from middle and high school. I've known these women for 20 years, though I've seen or been in contact with most of them only sporadically over the last decade or so. Our lives have all gotten pretty busy, but it was less awkward than I thought it might have been. Maybe because all of us are mothers now, we had certain things we could talk about--birth stories, breastfeeding, how we met our husbands, etc. There was still plenty else to talk about, though, too.
After that, Dan, Sam and I trekked out to Plymouth where my sister in law and her family were celebrating my niece's birthday by staying overnight in a hotel with a pool, splashpad, and hot tub. If we'd been able to get there earlier we might have had a little more fun, but by the time we got there the pool was pretty crowded and crazy (read: oodles of rowdy kids with drunk, inattentive parents) so we didn't manage to stay terribly long. It was still fun.
And Sunday was our day to relax and prepare for the week. I woke up with a terrible backache, took some pills and lay back down for a couple hours while Dan and Sam hung out. Once the pain meds sort of kicked in (read: no more crazy spasms but still plenty of pain) I managed to do some laundry, pick up my prescriptions, and we made a family Target run in which Sam passed out in the cart. He's been refusing naps and konking out at odd times, lately.
As usual, I completely forgot to take pictures. Here is one of Sam at the Children's Museum, fading into the blue screen in the "music video" type room.
No idea who the little girl is.
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