February 2019
Family Fun
For a short month, we sure did pack in a lot of stuff! We kicked it off (heh) with the Super Bowl, for which we once again hosted the Carneys. The game itself was … uhh, actively awful, but that just meant more time hanging out and eating terrible snacks, so it was fun anyway! Valentine’s Day was a chill Thursday, starting with chocolates in heart-shaped boxes for the kids, including valentines in class for both kids, and finishing with R. bringing home Indian food for me. We went to Annika’s last-ever elementary school musical performance; the 5th grade plays recorder, so that made for a different experience (despite the music teacher’s nearly word-for-word repetition of his usual spiel, ha!). We spent an afternoon and evening at our house with the Patels, including a couple of rounds of cocktails from a cocktail-of-the-month box R. got for xmas and a bunch of tamales from Chavez. And the whole family watched the red-carpet stuff and first couple of categories of awards for the Oscars — I don’t think the kids have ever seen the show before, at least not live.
For a short month, we sure did pack in a lot of stuff! We kicked it off (heh) with the Super Bowl, for which we once again hosted the Carneys. The game itself was … uhh, actively awful, but that just meant more time hanging out and eating terrible snacks, so it was fun anyway! Valentine’s Day was a chill Thursday, starting with chocolates in heart-shaped boxes for the kids, including valentines in class for both kids, and finishing with R. bringing home Indian food for me. We went to Annika’s last-ever elementary school musical performance; the 5th grade plays recorder, so that made for a different experience (despite the music teacher’s nearly word-for-word repetition of his usual spiel, ha!). We spent an afternoon and evening at our house with the Patels, including a couple of rounds of cocktails from a cocktail-of-the-month box R. got for xmas and a bunch of tamales from Chavez. And the whole family watched the red-carpet stuff and first couple of categories of awards for the Oscars — I don’t think the kids have ever seen the show before, at least not live.
Annika in Action
Our girl was busy on her own this month: She had Grace's birthday sleepover the second weekend, still showing the dregs of the amazing shiner she got after some kid ran into her at full force on the playground at school and gave her a gigantic goose-egg on the forehead above her eye; the swelling went down after a day or two, but the bruising stuck around for another week and a half, poor kid! Meanwhile, we celebrated the return of Pokemon Go! — R. was finally able to retrieve her login (after a year of it being MIA, for still-unknown reasons), so she and I started exploring together — me with my new account, and her on R.’s phone (usually) with her own. And she chose a Monday to use her Skip Day Pass (a gift from me on her birthday), which meant staying home from school and doing very Annika things — getting crepes for breakfast and poke for lunch, chilling out playing on the Switch, browsing in Michael’s and Old Navy and the bookstore … I like these skip days almost as much as she does!
Our girl was busy on her own this month: She had Grace's birthday sleepover the second weekend, still showing the dregs of the amazing shiner she got after some kid ran into her at full force on the playground at school and gave her a gigantic goose-egg on the forehead above her eye; the swelling went down after a day or two, but the bruising stuck around for another week and a half, poor kid! Meanwhile, we celebrated the return of Pokemon Go! — R. was finally able to retrieve her login (after a year of it being MIA, for still-unknown reasons), so she and I started exploring together — me with my new account, and her on R.’s phone (usually) with her own. And she chose a Monday to use her Skip Day Pass (a gift from me on her birthday), which meant staying home from school and doing very Annika things — getting crepes for breakfast and poke for lunch, chilling out playing on the Switch, browsing in Michael’s and Old Navy and the bookstore … I like these skip days almost as much as she does!
Winter break
So … Tahoe didn’t happen this year, for two reasons: One, the insane snowstorm that basically made driving impossible, and two, Lukas’s 103.5 fever (which eventually turned into an ear infection) and R.’s subsequent development of the same bug. The Carneys actually attempted the drive up on Saturday as planned; they spent 14 hours in the car, had some dicey situations that made them fear for their lives and safety, and eventually got turned around and sent home by CHP. We have never been so glad to have a sick kid, who was the deciding factor in whether to travel or not … we’ll reschedule, but not till April probably. We spent a few days basically hanging around the house, nursing illnesses, then rallied to go on a two-day, one-overnight outing to San Francisco: the California Academy of Science on day one, room service and early bedtime at the Ritz-Carlton on Nob Hill, then off to brunch in the Outer Sunset and a day at the San Francisco Zoo before heading home. It’s really awesome how, now that the kids are older, we can do so much more at places like that — we all had a great time, and I’m not even all that sorry to have missed Tahoe this once. We capped it all off by going to see Lego Movie 2 in the theater the day before the kids had to go back to school — all in all, a good break salvaged from the ashes.
So … Tahoe didn’t happen this year, for two reasons: One, the insane snowstorm that basically made driving impossible, and two, Lukas’s 103.5 fever (which eventually turned into an ear infection) and R.’s subsequent development of the same bug. The Carneys actually attempted the drive up on Saturday as planned; they spent 14 hours in the car, had some dicey situations that made them fear for their lives and safety, and eventually got turned around and sent home by CHP. We have never been so glad to have a sick kid, who was the deciding factor in whether to travel or not … we’ll reschedule, but not till April probably. We spent a few days basically hanging around the house, nursing illnesses, then rallied to go on a two-day, one-overnight outing to San Francisco: the California Academy of Science on day one, room service and early bedtime at the Ritz-Carlton on Nob Hill, then off to brunch in the Outer Sunset and a day at the San Francisco Zoo before heading home. It’s really awesome how, now that the kids are older, we can do so much more at places like that — we all had a great time, and I’m not even all that sorry to have missed Tahoe this once. We capped it all off by going to see Lego Movie 2 in the theater the day before the kids had to go back to school — all in all, a good break salvaged from the ashes.
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