Veteran's Day Weekend

This is a holiday weekend for many, though not for Todd.  Adam doesn't have school today, though, again.  I remember when I was student teaching last fall, they called it no-teach November because there were so many days off and half-days.

On Saturday, the kids and I picked Todd up from work around 3pm and we drove up to the cottage.  When we get to the road, Abbey starts to coo "school, school, school" which somehow has become her word for the cottage and the lake in general.  We have no water, but we let the kids run around while we inspected the wind damage.  Mostly just small branches everywhere with one really big one having broken off a tree in the garage and lodged itself.  More of a limb, really.  Todd pulled it down so it didn't suddenly fall off and kill anyone.

I had been sick to my stomach and with a headache all afternoon.  As we got in the car to drive to Watertown for dinner, it got so bad I wanted to cry.  I couldn't do a sit down restaurant, so we went to Five Guys and then home.  I couldn't get the kids to bed fast enough while my head pounded.  I laid in the shower then  on the couch, going in and out of sleep.  The half Tylenol you can take when knocked up doesn't do crap for something like that.  I would wake up all night, sometimes still in pain and other times OK.

On Sunday, it was so nice, we knew we had to do something outdoors.  We finally rode over to Chuckie and Missie's horse barn since Abbey is VERY into horses right now.  They weren't there, but the kids ran up and down the aisles looking at the horses, Abbey saying "sorsey" in her little coo and "neigh, neigh" the whole time.  She wasn't shy, of course, about touching them, until Adam, who remembered feeding them last spring, starting taking pieces of food and chucking them into the stalls and they started getting jumpy.  Such a thing for boy to do, especially one who is little more reluctant to touch them then his sister.

We ate at Ruby Tuesday after, actually letting Abbey sit in the booth instead of a high chair.  She did well, better than Adam who is in a rebel streak.