The Bloys are Back in Town
We have arrived back in NoVa. YAY! After being in Wisconsin for 8(ish) days, we’re finally home. Tonight I sleep in my own bed, and much like Baby Bear’s bed, it will be neither too hard, nor too soft.
But first, a brief re-cap of our Wisconsin adventures.
We stayed with Amy and Luke in their newest house. We are very appreciative of the free place to stay on our long visit and it was fun to help unpack and organize their kitchen and schlep boxes to their basement which is exclusively made for those under 5’9”. Poor Luke. I wonder how many times over the next few years he’ll bang his head in the basement.
Christmas with the Bloy/Reese/Melton families was fun and a good haul for Adam who now has way more toys to play with and we have some great books to read and movies to watch. (thank you, everyone!) Adam really enjoys his new puzzles and train set and had those out the minute we got home. We spent Dec 25th (at night) with Brian, Erin, Luke and Amy. Family is great, but after you’ve been with them for almost 2 straight days, you need a break.
We spent a couple days up in Spooner and got to see Eric and his parents, whom I have not seen in ages. I also got to see pictures of Eric’s brothers, their wives and their kids. We also had a little trip to Rice Lake (Eric, Mike and I) where we saw the Norske Nook (As always, 9 inch pies!) and made fun of the accents. Adam had a blast with his grandparents up in Spooner who spoil him rotten and took him for sled rides out in the snowy back yard. It wasn’t as bad up there as I thought it might be. I’ve been away for a long time, so it was good to see that not much changes up in the North Woods.
Back in Madison we also met up with Brian, drove all over Madison trying to find a quick dinner on a Thursday night. and had drinks with Parter at the now smoke-free Paul’s Club.
I didn’t get to see everyone I wanted to see, but I’m sure we’ll be back in the spring or summer and will have a chance to see everyone again.
We left Friday morning for DC and hoped to make it home by 3am or so, but the horrendous traffic in Chicago in the mid-afternoon ruined those plans and we ended up staying outside of Pittsburgh Friday night.
Now I am sick with some irritating sinus congestion, Adam does not want to sleep, and its 39 minutes til 2006.
As soon as it goes to midnight, Mike and I can celebrate our 6th anniversary of meeting — and what a wild, crazy 6 years this has been. I fear, however, that tonight I have lost him to Civilization 4. Maybe I’ll be able to drag him off his brand-new Christmas computer and get a kiss at midnight — providing I can stop sniffling and sneezing long enough to enjoy it.
Happy New Years, everyone!
I’d like to note that I was NOT on the computer at Midnight, nor was Kirstin. I was opening the champagne, trying to kill us with the cork.
Whee. 6 years. It’s a wonder she’s put up with me that long.