The Best Weekend Ever!
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
I couldn’t have asked for a better weekend at the cottage. Thank you Russ and Rhetha Genzink.
Dusty and I had a great night by ourselves Friday night. We went out for dinner to Hearth Stone. We laughed later because we realized it’s a gas station restaurant. That’s right, we celebrated our 12 year anniversary dining at a restaurant hooked to a BP gas station. In all fairness, you wouldn’t know it was a gas station restaurant until you go down the hill and see the BP is hooked to it. It was good food and we couldn’t complain.
We were given a couple presents from friends to take along. Knowing my enormous sweet tooth, my friend Jill smuggled a Zeeland Bakery Cake (white cake, chocolate frosting on top and cream in the middle - there is no other way) and fake bubbly (I can’t drink on my drugs). Susan Bakker made an awesome appetizer platter for us.
Susan also made a cute little bucket of sparklers, rice krispie treats and fun things for the kids. Brooklyn decided to try selling the Rice Krispie treats. What a little entrepreneur! Wonder where she gets that from?
We did everything we hoped to do. We played in the water, went on a boat ride, rode the Sea Doos (Brooklyn’s new favorite), caught a fish, watched a sunset, roasted s’mores, ran around with sparklers, ate too much food and had a great time with the entire family.
It was so hard to leave on Sunday because it meant coming back to reality. I am so thankful that for one weekend I could focus on something other than brain tumors.
I watched my kids play in the water. Discovered Brooklyn cannot go fast enough on a Sea Doo with her Uncle Clair. Realized Max thinks he’s a big boy and wants to drive a Sea Doo too (just like Uncle Clair). Samantha loves the water. Brynn (my beautiful newborn niece) is such a sweet and awesome baby. Although…word in the cottage was that she didn’t sleep well and gave her parents and grandparents a rough night. Somehow my family slept through the whole thing!
I’ll write a new posting to fill you in on what’s to come with me from a medical standpoint.
I wanted this posting to be all awesomeness.
