Porch Dates

Smasher went to my grandparent's house this weekend for Easter. I really am not in the mood to ride in a car for three hours so The Hubby and I stayed in home this weekend. It was a much needed break. I love my darling little boy but it's getting harder to wrangle him now. He's pretty good about entertaining himself and also realizing that I can't pick him up very easily anymore. He's such a good kid.

But while he was gone this weekend, The Hubby and I enjoyed what will be our last weekend alone before she's here. We took a walk late Friday night which led to some pretty strong contractions but they went away when I got home. Saturday we went to watch Alice and Wonderland...FINALLY!!! It was good, but I was a little disappointed but can't figure out why yet. I was having some contractions before we got there and while we were at the movie they got to be pretty regular, around 5 mins. So, we went to the hospital. Of course they stopped for the most part once we got there. I had a few kind of strong ones, but nothing to write home about, which is good because I'm only 35 weeks today so I still have a few weeks before she's ready. At least idealistically anyway. After getting home at 2am, The Hubby and I decided that we wouldn't try to go to church because I was absolutely exhausted and we were going to his sister's house about an hour away for lunch. Easter lunch was wonderful and watching the kids hunt Easter eggs was a lot of fun. We came home fairly early to try to get some stuff done but we ended up just hanging out. I know. We're lazy. I all of a sudden had a craving for lil smokies so we went and got the smokies and then I had mac and cheese and The Hubby had leftovers. There was a really pretty lightening storm happening last night so we decided to have a "porch date" which was more like a "stoop date" because I have a stoop and not a porch, but nonetheless, it was agreed that it was probably one of our best recent dates. It was simple, quite and beautiful. We then came in and watched Law Abiding Citizen. It was horrible. I mean, a decent story, but we came away from the movie feeling very depressed and down. We also rented Amelie (one of my favs) but will watch it today.

Well, I picked up the kid from my mom a couple of hours ago so we're going to go play now.

So, for now, auf wiedersehen...

Oh and painful contractions suck!!! Especially when they are like 7 mins apart.