Welcome back! Hope you had a great weekend. Mine was not full of trips to the beach or BBQs. But darn fun. My goal has been to be a shut in. Between having a baby and the heat I think it seemed logical. My top high points from the weekend, not necessarily in this order were:
1) My husband and I had a date night. Nothing like being face to face for reconnecting… across a table that is.
2) After she and I had a run in ( I didn’t let her do something, she kicked me, I sent her to her room), Vivien followed me into Oliver’s room where I was cleaning up and hands on hip said, “Mommy, we need to talk.” I stopped myself from rushing forward and telling her, “You are so cute, and look at you using reasoning!” I just said, “Yes, we do.”
3) Thursday night one of my oldest friends (freshman in college) Trish took me to see the Pretenders. I kind of forgot how wicked cool Chrissie Hynde was and still is. Here is an apt review of what I saw. There she was 57, mother of two, looking like the cool, accomplished rock star she is. An icon. She had a great outfit. White vest over some shirt, tight jeans tucked in almost stocking-like high boots. I would look like a clown, but man it worked for her. She has that great deep voice, she bantered with the crowd well. And I also forgot how many good songs the Pretenders have. Talking bout my generation. She’s just so “this is who I am and if you don’t like it, you can kiss my ass.” Which makes me want her to like me. Then when she broke out her guitar Trish and I were thinking, ah, I wish I could be that cool. At the end when she took out a harmonica and started playing I turned to Trish, “Okay, I want to kiss her… if she’d let me.”
4) Speaking of wanting to kiss someone… I was at a fun pool party for a 4 year old where who else was the there, but Mr. Hunk himself Jon Hamm, lead in “Mad Men”.
I am fanning myself at the thought. It was a nice normal exchange at a taco-catered-truck backyard party. He tried his best to get Vivien to warm up to him. I didn’t tell him that she shined on Jake Gyllenhaal a couple of years before in a similar manner. I did not tell him he was the cutest, hottest thing on basic cable. I wasn’t pleased that I hadn’t lost ten pounds that morning as I had to take off my cover up and give him an eyeful of my mom suit as I pushed Viv around a little floaty. My only hope was that my large, nursing breasts would pop out, and I would have felt I had made myself somehow memorable to Mr. Hamm.
Oh, and I saw a movie. Which is where this comes in.
The only reason I could go to the concert or the movie of course. That is my pump station. The spilled milk, the sound “eh-a-eh-ah-e-ah” humming along as I try to read for a couple of minutes. (BTW, at this point anyone could walk in the room, and I couldn’t care less who sees me with large plastic domes over my special place) Except that I don’t make that much, so I saw “Extract,” which was really funny. (The jokes about married sex are right on the money.) It was close by and only 90 minutes. I never like a long film, and when I am nursing, I really don’t. I only had a smidge pumped, so I booked. It was the brain holiday I was after. And one that kept me in air conditioning.
Give me your highlights!
So glad you had a great weekend. We had family over but got rained out of the backyard fun we’d planned. We still had a lovely time each cuddled up to a coffee or hot chocolate and talked endlessly. Sadly, the weekend ended badly last night when my 1 year old woke up at 12:45 vomitting last night. Poor baby. She’s fine today and it got me out of a day of work so I’m not complaining especially since she’s in the middle of a long nap and I’m currently catching up on all the Barefoot Contessa episodes that have been piling up on the the DVR.
sorry about the vomit, but the veg time for you sounds great. Was just thinking how I would love to pluck down with a book for a couple hours. ah… Rex is crying.
were is it raining?
Sounds like a good weekend.
Over here Labor Day meant laboring on all of the new teeth in my son’s mouth. So that meant lots of cuddles, lots of applesauce, and lots of Motrin. Maybe in the years to come it will mean barbeque and water skiing, but now we are fine with our little man and his little budding teeth.
Shut in here! Watched and episode of Cosmos in between shuttling my teen to her various social obligations. Nice relaxing weekend for the most part.
Love the “we need to talk.” Priceless!
Oh, did you have the fun!!
I can’t even begin to tell you about my weekend coughcoughinlawsherefor10dayscoughcough.
I’ll let you know how I survive…
hahaha….it’s funny about your pumping routine.
i used to hv “pumping movies” when i was still onto it. whenever i pumped which took around 20 mins each time, i’d watch a movie on my laptop. that’s how i finished a movie in a day or 2.
I can’t believe you saw Jon Hamm at a pool party… I am insanely jealous.
And I’m sure he remembers your cute self – mom suit and all!
We had a gorgeous weekend on the sandbar with our houseboat on the Mississippi river. What beautiful weather! And we also had a blast with family and friends playing ladder golf and just hanging around on the beach. Love your website and check it out regularly even though I am WAY past the baby stage and ready for grandkids!
Loving your nursing station (and that you HAVE a nursing station). I just leave my pump on a side table near my favorite living room chair, and then grab my little cone-shaped friends from the sterilizer and plop down when it’s time to nurse so that I can queue up something from Tivo to watch. You go girl. One more thing – you need to squeeze a pumping session in first thing in the morning, when supply’s higher, so that you have enough in the freezer to let you see an Ishtar length film (not that I’d reccommend THAT bombola).
Ms. Hynde is my hero. I saw her a few summers back and have been a huge fan of hers ever since.
… and I have a soft spot for Ishtar. Sue me!
We are laughing out loud as I read your post to Thom. And us, we had a nice homey weekend of playing and arguing. You know.
We did do some robot dancing, listening to DaftPunk, with H jumping happy and naked on the bed. These are the days!
Hey Daphne, to resond to your question, “Where is it raining” … We live about 35 miles south of Seattle deep in the burbs of Lake Tapps, WA. Summer feels completely over here. Sorry to take so long to respond… just noticed comment updates are going to my junk box. Problem fixed. Hope you’re enjoying sunny California.
Oh my, John Hamm?! I am certain I wouldn’t have known what to do with myself.
Yup, absolutely certain.