A Week of Normal - In Pictures (and a few words too) - TUESDAY

TUESDAY (affectionately.known. as.) Gramma Sally Day.

Since the kids were little they have spent almost every Tuesday afternoon and evening with Gramma Sally and Paco (Grandpa) Ron.  I'm pretty sure my kids don't even know the real days of the weeks because of it.  In our house it goes Sunday, Monday, Gramma Sally Day, Wednesday...and so forth.  It has been a wonderful blessing for all of us.  G.S. does many things with them that I would not do (or do not have the energy, patience, creativity, time...)  and, of course,  they love it (and her), and I get a generally peaceful (as peaceful as it gets with a baby) afternoon to get some things done (or not).

So since I am not with my kids Tuesday afternoon, I guess this post will be all about my Tuesday.  Feel free to take a nap for the rest of this post.

Girl Lunch:  A while ago my mom and I started one of the most wonderful traditions.  Every other Tuesday she takes me out to lunch!  How could we not love this?  Everyone should start this tradition with someone that they love (and would also love to pay for your lunch).  In the beginning I did protest, but now have become quite accustomed to the life of luxury.  (after having said this, I have a feeling free lunch might be over as she is one of my most dedicated readers.)  After we went out several times we added my sisters to our regularly scheduled program.

As soon as Gramma Sally comes to get the kids I hop in the car, pick up my mom, and on this Tuesday decided to go see "Aunt Mo" doin' her thing..making non fat, low fat, iced, java chip, mochachinos, with extra whip, of course.

Then My brother decides to try and crash Girl Lunch, not gonna happen buddy!

Restaurant choice of the week - Free State Brewery.

The reason Free State is the choice of the Week!  These onion rings are the size of bagels, and just as good for you I'm sure.

Zayin has reached the age where if there is food near by, it needs to be in his mouth.  Okay if anything is near by, it needs to be in his mouth.  Here is my sister valiant attempt at keeping him entertained while we tried to talk.

Now I was hoping that this would be the part of the post where I got to talk about Tuesday evenings.  We usually spend Tuesday evenings at Exit 2:9 (wow, we need a new picture and some major updating), but this Tuesday we ended up being called home early because Anya was coming down with strep.

*Nadvornik fun fact - In the past 1 and half weeks we have had 4 cases of strep throat, 3 cases of the stomach flu, and one mystery bug that prefers to remain unnamed. Yeah for summer vacation.

But despite the abnormality of my "normal" Tuesday it was still a wonderful day, spent with my wonderful family, eating WONDERFUL food.  (Sorry guys, but you know that those onion rings deserved the biggest wonderful).

And for those of you that have been napping, it's time to wake up.  I'm sure my next 20 posts will be kid related!