February 17, 2009 - What A Week! (45 Weeks)

Make a Smilebox greeting

This week was definitely an incredibly busy one. On Wednesday we went to see the Clippers play the New York Knicks. We’d gotten the free tickets as a thank you from the Red Cross for donating blood last December. The seats were totally in the nose bleed section. What did I expect? Courtside seats? Had we known we'd be bonding with the clouds, we probably wouldn’t have gone. The rush rush is just too much during the work week.
On Friday my friend Norma and I hosted a little Valentine’s gathering at my house. It was a night primarily created to celebrate our husbands, but it was also an opportunity to share wedding pictures, stories of love, advice from our seasoned brides, and vino. We had a great mixture of brides of 3 weeks to 38 years. It was quite a fun girls night in.
Saturday was our first Valentine’s Day with the boys. We started our tradition of heart shaped pancakes for the boys at a dressed up dining table. It is so important to me to create traditions for our little family. It is these little things that we do that I hope the boys will eventually remember as little signs of our love for them. Thank you, Norma, for giving me ideas and encouraging my over-the-top love gestures.
Daniel’s mom had been hospitalized this week for stones, so we spent much of our weekend traveling back and forth to Riverside to visit her at the hospital. Her two surgeries went well and is expected to be released by Thursday.
Yesterday we attended the Upsherin of my friend Kiva's son. This hair cutting ceremony is done at the synangogue when a Jewish boy turns three. Everyone gets a turn to cut a chunk of hair off. This first hair cut ceremony signifies the beginning of his formal education and commencement of his formal study of the Torah. Once everyone had cut, our Yitzy bear was whisked off. Shortly after he made his entrance wearing his yamulke. Mazal tov, Yitzy!
TWIN NEWS: Anthony is waving hello, has sprouted another tooth, and said "Mama" for the first time while at dinner with Daniel's family on Valentine's Day.