Well, first off, our sweet Thea is doing much better than we'd anticipated at this point. Even by Friday she'd wanted to bounce around the yard doing those funny hops that corgis do. No hopping for our girl just yet. We've reintroduced her and Lucy and they eye each other warily from across the yard. Let's be honest. Thea eyes Lucy warily and Lucy follows Thea around. We're with them at all times, but right now Thea seems more hindered by the stupid collar than anything else. She gets the drains out today and the stitches out in a week. Love bug.

I don't need to tell you we're tired. I went to bed early both nights this weekend, but especially Friday night, and it's still not enough. That is all.

Field Day at Cal's school dawned cold, gray and drizzly. We've only been to four of these, so who knows how many have dawned cold, gray and drizzly in the past? For us, it's always been warm, sunny and sunscreen-y. I ran into one of Callum's teachers who is also an alumna of the school and she told us it was the coldest, grayest, drizzliest Field Day she can remember. Enough said. I won't say much more now and will instead will save Field Day for tomorrow. Let me just say this: having just attended Fiddler on the Roof a couple weekends ago, I spent a lot of the day humming, "Tradition!"

Thank God someone offered to make us dinner.

My dear friend Jackie, who is always teaching me about photography (among other things) and giving us wonderful bread invited us to dinner with her and her partner Saturday night. She made pizzas in her wood-fired oven, and they were ah-maz-ing. No. Words. Really. It was just the thing we needed after a long day. Wonderful conversation, delicious food, much laughter and new friendships. About a perfect Saturday night. Poor Callum was exhausted and wishes he'd been better company. We all do I think. We'll just have to do it again.

I wanted to be lazy on Sunday but we cleaned the house. Oh well. It feels good to have a clean house. I played with my new baby a bit (more on that in a blog post soon) and ran some skin-care errands (aren't those fun?) and we had a deliciously delightfully boring Sunday night at home. Amadeus again, Neel made his mom's famous Chicken with Stones for dinner. It was perfect.

And my new favorite drink? You guys are going to be so disappointed! Pinapple/Coconut juice and seltzer. That's all! I hope everybody had a great weekend. I feel like I could sleep for a month, but it's all good.

Well this was one of those weekends where we definitely had more good than bad. Way more good. It started Friday with brunch with my friends Marianne and Lisa. And yes. There were bloodys. And yes. There were mani/pedis. I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been with these two smart, sassy and delightful women. Our kids all used to go to school together and since Callum moved schools nearly three years ago now, we kind of lost the thread. I'm so, so happy we've picked it up again. Being with them did me a world of good. And the mani/pedi? I never, ever, ever do that unless it's for a special occasion, and yet it's such a pleasant experience and it feels so nice to have it done. I really should do it more often. It's especially nice to do it with some girlfriends. Lisa and Marianne? I'm putting you in charge of making sure I do more of that. Please and thank you.

Our boys lost a heartbreaker of a game Friday night after battling back to almost tie and afterwards we had a chilly cookout. And that's all we'll say about that.

Finally, finally it was warm enough for me and Neel to enjoy our morning coffee outside on Saturday. (Today is chilly and rainy, so there you are.) We had an odd day because Neel had to give a quick talk at work late in the afternoon and everything we wanted to do had to be worked around that. But the sunshine and the the music wafting over our neighbor's fence was just the best way to start the day. We voted for our sheriff in a primary at a local high school in a total low-tech, drop-your-ballot-in-the-box fashion and it was awesome!

And then Sunday. Birthday redemption, I like to call it. As I told you, Cal's studying Mozart in Music Appreciation, and our Virginia Opera is performing The Marriage of Figaro. We'd just missed the Norfolk weekend, but snuck up to Richmond yesterday to see it there. We decided to make a day of it, and hit our favorite Richmond restaurant, Can Can, while we were there. I'm hoping to post about our day tomorrow, so I won't say much here except: awesome. wonderful. better even than I expected.

Only I wish I were better at walking in heels.

Weekend Recap, May 6

Weekend Recap April 29