I feel as though my girls have grown up enough to the point
that the hat I seem to be wearing most often lately is that of a taxi driver.
It doesn't happen on a regular basis, but on a day like Saturday, where we had
two birthday parties to attend at different times… and presents to buy, I felt
like I spent a lot of time in the car.
Of course the day had to start off in Target for the gifts.
In the process, I refereed three fights, spent scads of money on household crap
that we NEED (does everything have to run out all at once?!), lost my cell
phone and lectured the children who were trying to buy stupid crap with their
own money. Seriously, if Spice adds one more interactive stuffed animal to her
collection, I will lose my shit.
After 11 on Sunday both girls were back home and we had a
day with not much to do besides laundry and a little house cleaning. The girls
attempted to go outside for a bit, but the weather wasn't overly conducive to
bike riding and fighting where the neighbors can hear you. Before long it was
drizzling and both girls were back in the house. A perfect lazy day.
We've recently become addicted to shows on Food TV like
Restaurant Impossible and Restaurant Stakeout, all to be watched when Cupcake
Wars isn't on, of course. So on a drizzly Sunday we parked our butts on the
couch and watched random stuff on TV. As we are all somewhat opinionated, we
all have something to say about what goes on during these shows.
We would have stayed there all day, but I woke up that morning
with a hankering for pizza. I've been doing great with the dieting, but when
this girl wants pizza, there is no denying her, or there will be hell to pay.
After EN left for work, we got a few things done and headed
out for the pizza I was craving. We went to a local place that EN and I used to
go to “when days were old and nights were bold.” It tends to be more of a bar
type of atmosphere at night, but I figured we’d be pretty safe at 4 pm on a
Sunday afternoon.
As I suspected, there were about six people in the
place-watching golf, a mellow day all around. Our usual table was available and
we quickly ordered as I knew exactly what I wanted. I’d been dreaming about
that pizza all freakin’ day!
I would have expected that we would have eaten our meal and
left and no one would have noticed our presence. However, we had an awesome
waitress who really went out of her way to make sure the girls had fun.
I never really allow the girls to have soda, but when we go
to this place, I do let them share a Sprite. I asked to have a cherry added to
each of their glasses and the waitress overdid herself by adding a shit ton of
cherries to each AND the shot of grenadine to turn the Sprite into the favored
Shirley Temple. Already my girls fell a little bit in love with the waitress.
The girls mooched a couple dollars off me to go play songs
on the jukebox with the promise that they would play a song for me too.
Suddenly the volume skyrocketed and I’m hissing at the girls to leave the
volume button alone.
The waitress said, “Oh it’s not them, it’s me!” And Call Me
Maybe is blasted through the restaurant.
Two biker looking dudes at the bar start dancing and singing
the song to each other.
A lady at the bar starts dancing in her seat, hollering that
this is her favorite song.
And the waitress handed my girls a stack of cash because she
liked their taste in music and wanted them to choose a few more songs.
Our pizza arrived and we ate and sang along to a bunch of
popular favorites by Bruno Mars, Blake Shelton (the ONE song they played for
me) and a whole bunch of singers and bands I've never heard of. We chatted and
laughed and no one had time to remember to fight or to complain about not being
hungry, a very rare occurrence.
The point of this post? The point is that in the grand
scheme of life, this was a quick weekend and really, “nothing special” happened
that will make us remember it forever. It struck me then, and still sits with
me a few days later, that a fun few hours out doesn't require a ton of planning
or a lot of money. The dinner out cost me a whopping $22, but the fun we had together
(and with the others in the restaurant) was priceless.
xoxo
Ice Princess
Nice post.
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