Recovering

Somewhere about this part of my pregnancies, I always start thinking I can take on a more "normal" routine. However, just because I have more energy than before does not mean that I am up to carrying out my non-pregnant lifestyle. This is one of those days when that frustrating fact hits me like a ton of bricks. Cest la vie. Yesterday sure was fun, though!

I was able to get all the bedding in the house laundered so I looked forward all day to fresh sheets! We had music lessons, and Samuel gets to learn the beginning of Perpetual Motion. The song is aptly named!

Following that, we came home and I worked to get the house together for the evening.... with a few interruptions! I told the kids that they could play outside while I worked inside. Shiphrah came running in and told me that Samuel needed help getting down from the barn. I wasn't sure exactly what she meant by that, but it sounded urgent enough so I dutifully followed when she grabbed me by the hand and pulled me outside! As it turned out, Samuel and Solomon had climbed up to the hay loft (Samuel to check for eggs and Solomon was just tagging along) and Samuel didn't want to let Solomon get down because he didn't think it could be done safely without adult help. (Wise call.) I got the boys down and said that Solomon needed to come indoors, but that Samuel and Shiphrah could continue playing outside, just NOT in the hayloft!

So, Solomon played contentedly with trains while I got the beds made and towels folded. Our babysitters (neices Hannah & Faith!) arrived and I went out to greet them and to hear Samuel and Shiphrah yelling, "HELP!" I thought, "Now what have they gotten into?" They were up in the woods, standing on a rock, and didn't think they could get down! Since I was already dressed in nice clothes, Faith went up to get them. She suffered a scratch from a thorny tree, but her battle scar was much appreciated by the rescuees!

Once everyone was in and settled, I was able to put on makeup (this doesn't happen often anymore, folks! I don't think any of my new friends would believe that I ever sold Mary Kay!) and started to get dinner for the kiddos ready. Somewhere in there, David came home from work.

We went to Olive Garden for dinner. (Thanks, Uncle William, for our gift card!) I had a new menu item... 4 cheese stuffed mezzaluna with shrimp. It was good! David had something with seafood, and while it was good, he said he'd have ordered differently if he read the menu more carefully. Rice. The staple starch of his childhood is not a treat in a restaurant! I had rasberry chocolate cheesecake for desert and David had a lemon creme cake. We ate way too much, but it sure was good! If I weren't pregnant, we'd have ordered wine. Next Valentine's Day, perhaps. Oh shoot! As soon as this baby is out, I look forward to a good merlot! Pair that with a really rich chocolate something or other, and I think that will be the perfect treat for popping out baby #4! (Far better than my usual, of orange juice and chlorophyll...)

After that, we stopped to look in Circuit City. Just about everything was gone, and what was left was pretty undesirable at way too high of prices. So then on to the theater.

We considered going to TPAC to the ballet, but the only tickets left were $72.50 a piece. It might have been worth it to see one of the classics or a Balanchine piece, but I'm just not terribly crazy about Twila Tharp. Maybe $22 crazy because it is still ballet, but not $72 crazy. So we went to Indian Lake and saw Gran Torino. Lots of violence and foul language, but an excellent movie nonetheless. It was one of those that will make even a man cry. (Quite possibly, it would make a man cry before it would make a woman cry.) More than a few illustrations (David thinks in sermon illustrations about these things) could be drawn from it about the effects of a fatherless society and how young, fatherless men react when they come in contact with an older man who cares enough to drive some sense into them.

We arrived home to find that all had gone well. I slept well, too! This morning I had to run out to get some goat feed and some milk (human feed) so made an early morning trip. I've slept most of the day after that, and will probably head back to bed after finishing this evening's barn chores. I need some rest before our day of rest tomorrow! :)