Thursday was A's 12th birthday and as usual - the world revolved around her for the week. It's totally not her fault, I just go overboard on her birthday every year. This year was certainly no exception. Wednesday night, we presented her with her much desired own cellphone. I finally came to my senses and realized by not giving her one in this day and age was just silly. With all the tennis tournaments, school activities, etc. that she is involved in - it would be much easier for her to be able to contact us when something was over rather than us trying to guess on the best time to pick her up. That said, the phone does NOT go to school. If it does and a teacher takes it away, I am not paying the $5 to retrieve it. She can do that herself and I'd better never know about it. Thursday we did our traditional spaghetti dinner at my parent's house. My dad and brother were not available but the rest of enjoyed the first big meal my mother has cooked in the new house!!
Saturday morning, I took A for pedi's. I had promised her all summer that we'd go get pampered together sometime and now summer was over. We also picked up some birthday supplies and a cake from Walmart and headed home to pack. It was time to get ready for our adventure to Great Wolf Lodge. So four 11-12 yr old girls and I headed to the hotel about 3pm. After checking in, we headed up to check out our "really cool room". The girls had a log cabin inside the room to themselves. It had a bunk bed and a daybed and their own flat screen t.v. Once we dropped off our stuff, it was straight down to the waterpark to begin the FUN. I have to admit, I had really not been looking forward to this because it just meant another weekend away from the house and E. BUT, once the day got rolling, I got in a better spirit about the whole thing. My brother joined us for awhile at the waterpark because I had an extra pass and C and my mom didn't want to come. He seemed to have a good time and even convinced me to go on the lazy river for awhile and then on the Tornado (a slide w/ a funnel shaped thing that it spits you into after a nice drop straight down). We rode it together and both screamed the whole way. After the girls tried out all the rides and my brother and I tried out the bar (yes, they serve alcohol at this place), we decided to head up to the room to wait for hubby and E to arrive with the pizza! After we ate and they left, it was back down to the first floor for arcade fun. The girls had a blast playing the games and we earned enough points between the five of us to get them each matching BFF bears and a bouncy ball for E. Then it was back up to the room where they went straight to their "cabin" to watch Disney and Nickelodeon til they decided they were tired at 11:30. The little angels slept til 9:30a!! We ate donuts, packed our stuff, checked out and took our stuff to the car and then ran back inside for more time in the waterpark!! We stayed down there until after 3pm and I rode all the slides with them before we left. It really was a good time had by all.
The only downside of the weekend was the moment I walked thru the back door and saw a gift on the kitchen table. Crap - today is my anniversary. I knew this in theory when I bought a card last week but never got around to thinking about getting him a gift or even acknowledging the day when we'd talked on the phone a couple times today. Double Crap - he not only remembered but bought a gift AND A CARD!!!!! There was even a gift bag - triple crap!!!! What kind of women lets her husband one up her on their anniversary of all days???? Our anniversary has taken a backseat for the past 12 years but that is no excuse on my part. Even if we don't get a romantic night out - I always get him something or at least make a big deal out of the day. And here I go staying out both nights that weekend (sorority dinner club on Friday night) and most of the day of our anniversary. I get serious demerits as a wife today. I did run out and buy him some football books and a college football magazine but that should have been done before 4:30 today!! So what did he give me?? A GC to my favorite clothing store. Yep, I officially suck as a wife but rock as a Mom!!
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