Today the boys woke up to the most exciting news a kid can get...SNOW DAY!!! Unfortunately, I couldn't stick around long to revel in their happiness because I headed out with Husband this morning to work his company's annual food show. The boys had a wonderful day with Nana (who happened to be at our house to pull last-minute field trip duty, which turned to snow day duty). They played games, stayed in their pj's until 2:30pm and got french toast for lunch! Meanwhile, my day went something like this:
9:00 am - report to food show
9:15 am - find booth that I'm working, note that there is no chair available (I was called very last
minute to work, and said I could only if I could do it seated)
10:00 am - 1st bathroom break; thinking to myself "This may have been a mistake."
11:00 am - still no chair, back is already very stiff and getting quite painful
12:00 pm - Husband to the rescue with a chair! Back KILLING me
12:30 pm - Told I should try to stand up "Whenever the big boss comes around" (translation:
don't sit down)
1:30 pm - Yep. Definitely a mistake (though a fun one!)
2:30 pm - Decided the canned gravy booth is the most boring booth I've worked yet at a
food show
3:00 pm - Thank goodness for all of the great people I ran into. Chatting helped keep my mind
off the fact that I was almost immobile because my back hurt so bad.
3:47 pm - Texted Husband: "Where are you? I'm ready!" (food show ended at 4pm)
4:06 pm - Massaging my swollen ankles in the mini van all the way home
The boys spent the tail end of the day at our friends' The Hermansons, playing with their three girls, and when we arrived to pick them up we were treated to a fabulous dinner. I brought my knitting stuff so that Nicole could refresh my memory and we then had the coziest time I can remember in awhile, as the guys sat in the kitchen chatting and drinking coffee, and Nicole, Emma and I knitted. Emma also taught Kirby to "Finger Knit" (you know you were a child of the 80's if you finger-knitted). It was a peaceful, fun evening as the snow fell right outside the windows and Nicole and I were snuggled up on the couch with happy kids all around us.
Kirby fell in love with finger knitting. Husband was chuckling as we left and Kirby said "Emma, next time I come over I'll bring my yarn and we can knit together!"
The last thing he told me after I kissed him goodnight? "I'm going to dream about finger knitting tonight!"
Can I please be in 1st grade again? Just for a little while?
1 comment:
oh, my back hurt just reading about it. During my pregnancy a day like that would have left me with elephant ankles. I can only imagine your misery! You, my friend, are a good sport.
Logan is into finger crocheting as well. Tell Kirby to bring his yarn. Too funny!
So how much snow is there, anyway?
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