Busy Week!

Whew, what a week....Although I was sad not be making the weekly road trip to the cabin this weekend, we have been so busy this week, it has actually been great to have a weekend at home. Emma and I just had a discussion of all the new teachers in her life this week. There is teacher Karen at preschool, teacher Fran her babysitter, her new ballet and tap teacher, and teacher Susan who she met today at Sunday School. Yes, I said Sunday school. We reluctantly went back to church today. I say reluctantly not because I have anything against organized religion- I have had nothing but positive church experiences. But we are always reluctant to make comittments to things that cut into our weekly family time. Abby has yet to be baptised and I really wanted her and Emma to have some sort of formal introduction to relegion because Emma thinks God and Santa Claus are the same person (I am ashamed to admit this.......) The hardest part of the whole church thing is really just getting everyone dressed nice and out the door by 8:45 on a Sunday morning. However, once there, Abby loved the nursery, Emma loved the childrens sermon, and Mike loved the singing (so funny and he will be embarassed to admit it, but he loves to sing!) We are planning to have Abby baptized in November. It is nice to be back at the church I grew up in.

Other than that, it was a great weekend. It started out with a Friday night on the town with Kate and Laura. We hit Joe's Garage downtown and had dinner and drinks on the rooftop patio. Then onto Keegans for some keltic music. We met creepy Larry and he got a little handsy with Kate....definately glad to be sporting a wedding band that evening. Fun night.

Saturday, Emma and I attended Sunny's 5th bday party and made a scarecrow for thier garden. Oh, how I wish I was a little more crafty. Surrounded by these waldorf eath mamas, I was embarrased that I could barely sew a patch on the scarecrow. I am such a domestic failure. Poor Mike has to sew the buttons on the girls dresses when they fall off. Good thing I have other redeeming qualities, right honey? Emma was the runt of the litter at the birthday party, which seems to be the story of her life so far. It is sweet watching her work so, so hard to be one of the big kids. It is kind of heartbreaking too though. She really wanted to play with Sunny and her big kid friends- but they would see Emma coming and hide from her! The momma in me wanted to help her fight this battle and make the girls come out and play with Emma. But she was so blissfully ignorant that they were trying to ditch her, I just let it play out. She must have ran around that house 100 times looking for them- they would see her coming and whisper, "here she comes, let's hide!" I guess this is the first of many times I will have to let my kid fight thier own battles. I definatley don't want to be the mom that comes to the rescue all the time. And Emma was so pink cheeked and happy- why let her in on the fact that she was the brunt of a joke? Anyway, last night it was rainy and the girls were exhausted. I gave them a bath, gave each a massage, and put them in thier snuggly pjs. They were so clean, soft, and smelled so good I could have eaten them up. My love for them is just overwhelming at times.

Today is rainy again. Abs is napping, and we set up Em's Zebra tent inside. She is quietly playing with her cars in there. The house is cozy and quiet for a rare moment. I love Sundays.