Turning 36 Part 2

Let me start with the fact that blogger isn't letting me post photos right now.  Not sure what I'm going to do.  And there's no one you can email for help.  Apparently I've run out of my quota.  I don't know if it resets January 1 or not.  If it doesn't, I will probably have to find another place to write this.

Right now, I'm in my room and it's still dark out but I know Abbey is up early because I can hear the sound of the song her Pop Star Barbie sings when you press her necklace.  Abbey LOVES this doll she picked out at Walmart a few months ago.  When did she grow up??

So on my birthday, last Sunday, I woke up and got the kids going and checked my email.  I had an email from Rochester Visiting Broadway Artists.  Which I couldn't open with my Mac.  So I pull out Todd's Dell and try to read it again.  Wasn't I surprised to find out that my husband had gotten us a four show subscription to touring Broadway shows in Rochester!  "Memphis" is the first show, this weekend, "The Addams Family" in February, "The Book of Mormon" in March and "Les Miserables" in March.  I was pretty excited!  I teased Todd that I sucked him into theatre.  He admitted that maybe I have...:)  What makes this gift so nice isn't just that he bought me something he knew I'd enjoy, but that he is doing it with me.  He is getting involved with one of my biggest (pre-kid anyhow ha) interests.  I appreciate it a lot.

Todd started explaining to Adam it was my birthday and got him to sing to me.  Wasn't sure if he got it until he went into the kitchen and got out the Darth Vadar candle that was on his cake.  How cute is that??

Todd asked me what I wanted to do.  I was pretty sick to my stomach.  I tossed back and forth about going to a zoo or something and finally I told him it sounded lame, but I just wanted to go to Syracuse to get my favorite Italian pastries.  So we did.

I had said I was too sick to go out to a fancy dinner or to Delmonico's, traditionally our "special place".  But as we wandered around Syracuse, Todd talked me into.  "It's tradition!" he said.  (Despite the fact that when we passed Chuck E. Cheese and Adam got really excited, I almost took them there.)

Sauce doesn't appeal to me at all right now (shocking, I know), so I ordered shrimp cocktail and tortellini in a butter sauce.  It was pretty good.  Kids were kind of wild, so I was thankful it was 2:30 and we were in an empty corner.  When the waiter came out and asked us if we needed anything and he kind of smiled and said how about a babysitter?  I said do you have one in the kitchen.  He said I WISH!  Guess we had stressed parent face.  It was just one of those meals were keeping them together was  A LOT of work.  But it was nice.  I'm glad we went.

When my mother was 36, it sounded kind of old.