Calm before the Storm

This weekend was much more relaxing than last weeks, in part due to the fact that I was recovering from a cold. Stayed home from work on Friday, but rallied to make dinner with Bobby at one of my favorite restaurants part-owned by Mario Batali called "Osteria Mozza". Despite my sinus infection, I was still able to taste my food and wine, thank God! The food and wine were fantastic, as usual. I was asleep by 10 pm that night. Thankfully, since Cael woke at an wonderful 5:45 a.m.!!

Saturday was a little busy with errands and Caoilin's French class, but I managed to get all my stuff done while she was in class and Cael napped. We are gearing up for Cael's 1st birthday which is now 3 weeks away! We met our Westside group of friends at our new favorite restaurant, Pitfire Pizza, for an early dinner with kids. That proved to be a bit more chaotic than expected and our table was even reprimanded for having too rambunctious of kids. Ooops! I guess I thought that going to dinner at 5 pm was the "kids/family" hour and that sort of chaos was expected. Apparently not. Fortunately, the owners didn't hold any hard feelings against the group and will continue to let us come back at the present time. That's good b/c we are going twice this upcoming weekend! I opted to turn in at the early hour of 9pm that night and Bobby went to his sister's beer pong tournament solo, which turned out to be the smartest thing I did this weekend!

Sunday was quiet. The weather was cool and gray. After breakfast at The Curious Palate, I took Caoilin to swim class while Cael napped. Then Caoilin and I cleaned up the trash around the Fire Station while Cael finished his 2 1/2 hour nap! She had to do some extra chores (including cleaning up the litter) to earn that new Sleeping Beauty Baby Doll we got her to go with her new princess baby play set one of her schoolmates got her for her birthday. She had an impromptu play date with her friends down the street, while Bobby and I voted at the Mar Vista elections for our neighborhood representatives. Cael took another great late afternoon nap, which actually permitted Caoilin, Bobby and I to have a relaxing dinner of Filet Mignon with sauteed mushrooms and onions with a side of cheesy zucchini and a nice bottle of wine. We managed to get the kids both to bed by 8pm and settled in to watch a movie. Can't remember the last time that happened.

I woke this morning, still recovering from my cold, but feeling much more well-rested than the week before! Aah. Back to work. :(

Hope you all had as enjoyable a weekend as we did!

Until next weekend!