On Saturday, we took a field trip to Brooklyn to visit our friends Brian and Lauren, do a little puddle-jumping, and eat bacon-gravy biscuits at Char No. 4.
The rain ended up trapping us at brunch for longer than we intended, which was okay because the place has Bourbon Bloody Marys, and less okay because our son has developed a newfound fascination with “stretching his vocal cords”, which is just the term that nice people who don’t want to make me feel bad in places like restaurants and Costco use to describe the fact that my son is shrieking at the top of his lungs and then responding to my frantic efforts to stop him by shrieking some more.
I’m going to call this “a phase” and move on, and then hope he does, as well.
Inside voices. Ssh.
You know, I’m not a big birthday-celebrator…but Mother’s Day? That one I love. Something about the fact that the day is designated specifically for appreciating my family lets me chill out and settle into it and just be for a minute.
The “chilling out and settling in” might also be a byproduct of the fact that my present involved sleeping until the impossibly luxurious hour of 9AM. Oh my god, that was nice. My guys didn’t actually end up returning home from the diner/playground excursion until 10, which meant a solid hour of laying in bed with coffee and People and birds chirping outside.
Kendrick brought my favorite breakfast – a bagel with cream cheese, lox, onions and cucumbers – back from the diner, and we quickly discerned from the manic mouth-pointing motions that our son is a massive salmon fan. Which is kind of weird, right? I mean, smoked fish is pretty intense even for lots of adults, but this kid just yanked entire slabs off of my bagel and deposited them directly into his mouth. No lemon, no cream cheese, nothing.
Just the deliciousness of fishy fish in the morning.
The very best part of the day: a flower delivery that was followed by an afternoon of swinging in the sun, frisbee-throwing, and fantasizing about finding the exact perfect spot for my brand-new tomato plant.
