Ugh! No rest for the wicked eh?

No sooner had I gotten off the plane in George Bush International airport, last Saturday (I guess it’s now two Saturday’s ago) when it was time to head down to Pearland to visit the Stevensons.  It was, if you can believe it, little Michael’s second birthday! I say this a lot about all my baby-friends, but they seriously grow up so stinkin’ fast!

To celebrate, the Stevensons invited some friends (Mariano and Kat, Adrian and Soo, Col and I) to come over and enjoy some pizza and cake!

We had a lovely time, I, of course, was magnetically drawn to the tiny little baby in the room and spend most of the day cooing and tickling little Sebastian.

It was a lovely afternoon, bittersweet, however, as it was the last time we were to see the Stevenson family before they left for Singapore.  Amee had set aside a bunch of stuff for me, cupcake stands, party supplies, and as happy as I was to take it all off her hands (my inner party-planner did a little hop, skip and a jump!), it was tough, kinda home-hitting that they were really leaving!

As I was leaving, Pierce came up to me and said, ‘Are you leaving?’, I nodded and he just goes, ‘I’m really gonna miss you’.  That set me off, when I closed the car door, I just started to cry.  In short, I’m gonna miss them lots – but I hope they have an awesome time living in Singapore and I can’t WAIT to see them on our trip to visit them (hopefully in September!)

And my mission, when Pierce is home (he’s heading to College in Huntsville – and I’m so proud of him!!) is to get a picture of the two of us, cause I don’t think one exists!  For now, y’all will have to make do with a cute male bonding picture instead!

Monday morning came around fast and started off with an early morning SSA Board meeting at the lovely Ana Maria’s house, she’d gone above and beyond making little croissants and putting on a yummy breakfast spread!

With only five of us in attendance, the board meeting was over pretty quickly and Magz and I decided to pay a visit to JoAnns and pick up some crafting stuffs.  In JoAnns, we bumped into my friend Mina – who I’ve not seen in FOREVER! We had a quick chat before we all parted ways and went home for the day.

That night, our ‘secret six’ group got together for our second (and final *sniff*) annual Harry Potter watching.  Last year, our merry little group got together and headed to dinner and Part I of J.K Rowling’s final book.

The movie itself was pretty good, however, for me, the highlight of the night was Magz putting my hand on her belly and letting me feel lentil kicking.  I’ve been wanting to feel it for a while, I’ve never felt a baby kicking before and when I felt it, a lump came to my throat and my eyes filled up – it was an amazing feeling.  Very slight (as lentil gets most rowdy when it’s most quiet) but he or she was definitely giving Aunty Las high-fives (either that or kicking her away!)

Tuesday (19th) brought with it a trip to the gym and Julie’s monthly SSA dinner group at Cafe Red Onion.  We were a small group, Annette with her hubby, Michelle and her hubby, Julie, Col and I and Magz and Sam but we had fun.  The food looked better on the menu than it did on the plate, or tasted, but it wasn’t terrible.  I like trying little off-the-wall places to eat and I love Julie’s dinner group!

Can you believe I didn’t take a single picture? Man! I’m so cross at myself!!

Wednesday was filled up with exercise and crafting, actually, now that I think about it, so was Thursday – with the addition of a lovely lunch with Magz, Sally and her two gorgeous little girls in the Trotter, YMCA.

The Trotter Y, has a lovely wee cafe in there, with a pretty huge menu selection, reasonable prices and the food was yummy (portion size was pretty big too!)  They also do delicious smoothies (complete with additional protein for those who’d like it) that was really tasty as well.  We’ll definitely be repeating that experience!

Friday was a stay at home day, I had vowed to do zero all day.  Zero.  I was going to veg out and do nada.  However, I didn’t do much of ‘zero’, I wrote a menu plan, sorted coupons, tidied around a little before I headed out for a sneaky shop to Walmart and Target, where I picked up an insane amount of Kerr mason jars (or, for those of you at home, jam jars!).

If you haven’t yet discovered Pinterest, you should check it out….like my friend Amber says, it’s like crack…I can’t help buying jars with all the fun and adorable things there is to do with them!!