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Catching Up: Visits
Saturday
On Saturday we'd planned for Teri's father to be visiting us for the day, a sort of combined birthday and Christmas visit (Teri's birthday was last week). But he and his wife and their granddaughter all got sick a few days before, so we finally agreed to drive out and meet them for lunch halfway. We borrowed Teri's brother's big SUV for the trip because her brother had a big package he wanted us to deliver to their father.
The SUV had a DVD player, which is something that Sebastian has often begged for and that I have resolutely opposed. He watches far too much television as it is, and I see no reason to hasten his metamorphosis into a couch potato. But I have to admit that for this trip it was awfully convenient.
All in all we spent about 8 - 9 hours round trip, plus perhaps an hour and a half for lunch. We ended up at a Cracker Barrel in New York; oddly enough it was one we'd eaten at before. I've even written about it here, since there was a guy who made incredible balloon animals at the table next to us that time.
He wasn't there this time, although the little person who worked there was, which was how I was sure that we were at the same place.
When we got back to Teri's brother's house that night to drop off the SUV and pick up our car, his girlfriend (it sounds weird to say that, since they live together and are raising two kids) asked if Sebastian would like to sleep over. He went wild with delight at the prospect, and so, unexpectedly, Sebastian had his first sleepover at a non-grandparents. Hmm. It feels as if I should stick an apostrophe somewhere in "grandparents" - maybe at the end - but screw it, I'm too tired and sore.
It was quite a pang for us to drive home without our little guy. We both missed him terribly, and perhaps that's why I stayed up until 2 AM playing Arcanum.
And maybe that's part of the reason that I'm in so much pain today.
Sunday
On Sunday we had a birthday party for Teri. There were about 15 people coming over, including three kids for Sebastian to play with. The weather was unseasonably warm, which was good because I was barbecuing.
I'll go easy on the details. I made 18 burgers and 8 hot dogs; they turned out really well (note to self: 85-87% lean ground beef seems to be the best for barbecuing). The cake, from Wright's dairy, was delicious as always. Sebastian loved playing with the other kids. I think everyone had a good time.
At my father's suggestion I put A Christmas Story on, and was impressed all over again at what a great and funny movie it is - so much better than that phony "classic" Polar Express.
Once everyone left I was honestly surprised to collapse onto the couch, so weak and sore that I could hardly get up. But I already wrote about that in the previous post.
On Saturday we'd planned for Teri's father to be visiting us for the day, a sort of combined birthday and Christmas visit (Teri's birthday was last week). But he and his wife and their granddaughter all got sick a few days before, so we finally agreed to drive out and meet them for lunch halfway. We borrowed Teri's brother's big SUV for the trip because her brother had a big package he wanted us to deliver to their father.
The SUV had a DVD player, which is something that Sebastian has often begged for and that I have resolutely opposed. He watches far too much television as it is, and I see no reason to hasten his metamorphosis into a couch potato. But I have to admit that for this trip it was awfully convenient.
All in all we spent about 8 - 9 hours round trip, plus perhaps an hour and a half for lunch. We ended up at a Cracker Barrel in New York; oddly enough it was one we'd eaten at before. I've even written about it here, since there was a guy who made incredible balloon animals at the table next to us that time.
He wasn't there this time, although the little person who worked there was, which was how I was sure that we were at the same place.
When we got back to Teri's brother's house that night to drop off the SUV and pick up our car, his girlfriend (it sounds weird to say that, since they live together and are raising two kids) asked if Sebastian would like to sleep over. He went wild with delight at the prospect, and so, unexpectedly, Sebastian had his first sleepover at a non-grandparents. Hmm. It feels as if I should stick an apostrophe somewhere in "grandparents" - maybe at the end - but screw it, I'm too tired and sore.
It was quite a pang for us to drive home without our little guy. We both missed him terribly, and perhaps that's why I stayed up until 2 AM playing Arcanum.
And maybe that's part of the reason that I'm in so much pain today.
Sunday
On Sunday we had a birthday party for Teri. There were about 15 people coming over, including three kids for Sebastian to play with. The weather was unseasonably warm, which was good because I was barbecuing.
I'll go easy on the details. I made 18 burgers and 8 hot dogs; they turned out really well (note to self: 85-87% lean ground beef seems to be the best for barbecuing). The cake, from Wright's dairy, was delicious as always. Sebastian loved playing with the other kids. I think everyone had a good time.
At my father's suggestion I put A Christmas Story on, and was impressed all over again at what a great and funny movie it is - so much better than that phony "classic" Polar Express.
Once everyone left I was honestly surprised to collapse onto the couch, so weak and sore that I could hardly get up. But I already wrote about that in the previous post.