Fundraiser party for Jacob

If you click on the link to Jacob's Caring Bridge Site in the upper right, you'll see they have this pic on it right now. Love Jakey in his finest Steelers fan gear and Amy in her shredded dress-up dress with purple play lipstick.

Chuck-e-Cheese

I've never been to Chuck-e-Cheese before. 48 going on 49 and proud! Amy had a ball. We had a birthday party there for the daughter of a friend of mine. It was fun, fun, fun. We then went to the mall for some shopping and then to the fundraiser for sweet Jacob. What a fun and busy day.

Ambiguity

Super-Dad and Amy are away. The house is quiet, for the first time in 3.25 years. My heart misses Amy and Don so much. There was nobody to bathe or read a book to last night to ease the transition into slumber. There was nobody to say, "Mommy, is it a schoolday?" upon wakening this morning. There is no Ni-Hao Kai Lan or Little Einsteins overtaking the TV in the living room. The doggies are missing the uneaten portion of Amy's eggs and rice. There is a sadness in the crib. Amy's best friend next door, Dylan, feels a sadness in the hood.

On the other hand, I had a pedicure and dinner at Nawab, an Indian restaurant last night. Cooking channel is on the TV, even when I'm not watching it! I'm doing Jivamukti yoga today for 2 hours, and then going to a Korean restaurant, and MacArthur Mall afterwards until they close, if I want to stay that long. Tomorrow, I'm lined up for yoga and massage. My operating system is reset for autonomy this weekend.

Big Ni-Hao shout-out to my VIP superstar sister who is in CHINA right now. Hope you have time to see the blog in between solving the problems of the world, hiking the great wall, eating Peking Duck and marveling over the Terra Cotta Warriors.

Water-parks!

Okay, so I never went to a water-park. After a week of work, yoga, date-nights and what-not, I wanted to give Amy her choice of what to do this afternoon. All of the things she chose were closed, so I offered up a movie, the VA Beach Marine Science Museum or the Ocean Breeze Water-park. She chose the OBW.

When we got there, it started raining. So, we rode some slides and stuff. Escaping the imminent lightening we went to a high-dive entertainment show and were very entertained. We saw, among other feats, an 80 foot dive into a small pool.

Then we went into the wave pool in the rain. To my surprise, I loved it. It was an e.coli soup, but I was having fun. There I was, with all of the bacteria and fungus that VB had to offer, and to add to the mix, I saw a lightening bolt. So as I was bolting from the wave pool, the pools were evacuated. Amy got ice cream mixed with gummies and then the pools opened again. Thanks to the evacuation of the pools, the crowds dwindled. Amy and I played in the kids pools for a while, hit the wave pool again and then came home.

Great Wolf Lodge and Water Country USA here we come. Guess who slept on the way home? Thank god, not me.