Another fun weekend has flown by. Knowing Matt was headed north to go ice fishing, I had all of these wonderful plans of movies and sledding with the girls and house projects to get caught up on… only to find myself hibernating from the bitter cold this weekend.
Friday night we switched our traditional “Pizza and Movie Night” to “Happy Meals and Movie Night”. The movie: “Alpha and Omega”. This was the worse movie ever. The story is about how an Alpha wolf is not supposed to mate with an Omega wolf! Seriously? At one point, the Alpha male was supposed to “howl” with the Alpha female (yes its a metaphor) and she never quite joins in. He collapses and says “Was it as good for you as it was for me?” I’m sure that was the creator’s attempt to include adult humor, but I for one, did NOT find it funny. Thank God my kids did not understand, nor repeat it (yet).
Saturday’s temps remained below zero, so we skipped the sledding idea and did what girls do best…. Went shopping! Both girls had gift cards from Christmas that they had yet to spend – thank you uncle Steve. Madalyn was prepared to spend hers on a new swimsuit and a pair of gigantic slippers. I agreed to buy both girls a swimsuit and put the slippers back. Savannah ended up buying a Pucci Pup and a Fur Real Duckling. Madalyn chose a Mobigo by VTech. I had only heard about this Mobigo earlier the same day from another preschooler mom who claims this little video gaming system has taught her 2 ½ year old to spell. I knew instantly Madalyn would love it since she has begged to play Savannah’s Leapfrog Leapster (another awesome product) since Christmas. The girls thought they were really grown up putting their items on the belt at the checkout lane and then handing the cashier a “credit card” and taking their bag of loot.
So our weekend was mostly play and very little work, but one thing was missing all weekend: Daddy. I’ve been married long enough to know not to take my spouse for granted. So I often think about how lucky we are that he keeps the fire stoked for us always takes the garbage out, that he motivates the rest of us to play silly games, etc. But I thought about it even more as I looked out the window at the –6 degrees weather and knew that I was on my own. If I wanted a warm fire, I would need trek my rearend out to shed for the wood. And dinner wasn’t going to cook itself. And the kids needed to be bathed. And… what’s that… ah yes the sound of screaming girls fighting over something again. Yes, I missed my partner in crime... but I wasn't the only one.
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