Weekend

We drove back to Pleasant Grove on Friday, Adam dropped me off and went to get the car washed, then he picked me up and we met the Porters for dinner.  We went to La Costa which is all of our favorite Mexican restaurant.  We had a good time visiting with them and finally left the restaurant when the waitress could not have given us more clear body language that it was time for us to go.  

Nola and I stopped at the bathroom and Dave and Adam went outside.  They were talking by the cars and sort of had their backs to us and I assumed that maybe they were talking about confidential church stuff (Dave is our stake president).  So Nola and I were standing a ways off, talking and kind of freezing and waiting for them.

Adam was standing there kind of freezing and waiting for me to be done talking to Nola.  I don't know who finally concluded we could be done, but luckily we're not still all standing in the La Costa parking lot waiting for each other.

I told Marianne on Saturday that Christmas break felt like a dream and I was back at life.

Which isn't terrible.

(But I liked the break.)

Saturday was the turn around laundry day because Adam left yesterday for Phoenix.  We also went grocery shopping and I tended to lots of little tasks around the house.  Adam had a few hours of church appointments and when he was finished we went to Salt Lake.  We did some errands and stopped at Living Spaces and IKEA to look at couches.

We decided we want a couch that is basically a bench (that is as comfortable as possible) for the Home Place.  We want something that is (hopefully) difficult for mice to climb.

Mice take up way too much rent free space in my brain.

Adam is not a pull the trigger quickly on a purchase kind of guy, so we're not buying one any time soon.  We're looking.

Adam read to me from the new book he gave me for Christmas (it's from Richard Osman, the same author as The Thursday Murder Club).  He was reading a book translated from Finnish for a while and it seemed like a good book, but it was hard as a read aloud.  So we've abandoned that and we're enjoying We Solve Murders.

Adam left for Phoenix and I had a mostly quiet Sunday.  Church moved to 10:30, which is much nicer than 9:00.  I am always up earlier than that, but I like being home for a while instead of up and doing.  Emma came over in the late afternoon and we puzzled over the mantle.  I change it pretty much every season and it is always a process.  (Why don't I just change it the same way it was last year at the same season?  Where is the fun in that?) She sat on the couch and I moved stuff around and she gave her opinion. 

Mark didn't come over since he wasn't feeling well, so it was just Emma and me.  Braeden is sick with strep throat so Emma said my heir and my spare were down and out and it's a good thing I have her.

I always think it is a good thing I have her.

We made a frittata for dinner and she looked through my recipe books.  We talked to Adam and Mark on the phone at the same time and we all got signed up for our new health insurance with Adam walking us through it.  He knows that I need hand holding for things like that so it was nice to have him on the phone and Emma next to me.

I got distracted looking to see where to go for lab work and Adam said, "You need to stay focused."

I said, "It was just a side quest."

He told me there were no side quests.  Emma whispered to me to see if her dermatologist was covered by our new insurance.

I think she was trying to get me in trouble.

After dinner and insurance, Emma and I looked up the most popular names for absolutely no good reason other than we were curious.  

For some of them, we described what that person would look like.

There are some things that I would only ever do with Emma.  I'm glad she's my girl.