So many things I have to tell you!

Ok, so I'll start with Friday.
Friday was a fantastic, funny day.
It was soooooooooo gorgeous outside, sunny and beautiful and I decided I would try to look cute and wear a skirt and some flip-flop sandals. We dropped the mom off at work, the 2 year old off at school, and headed to Rye, a cute town down the road from Port Chester. I had breakfast and some coffee while the baby slept, than when he woke up I held him and we sang and danced in the cafe and generally made fools of ourselves while having a great time :). So fun. Then we just walked around town, where there were TONS OF NANNIES WITH KIDS! I mean, it was like I hit the nanny goldmine! I wanted to ask all of them to be my nanny friends, but that's kind of awkward, but I did some investigation and I think there's some sort of story time at the Library there that nannies go to with the kids so I'm going to check that out and see if I can leach onto some nannies and their kids for playgroups, etc. How's that for a plan? :) haha.
Grabbed a muffin for lunch, and a coffee which I successfully spilled all over while trying to navigate the stroller back to the car, and headed home. When we got home, it was still soo gorgeous outside so I peeled back the shut-all-winter-long door out to the patio and decided baby and I would have lunch out there! Turns out feeding a baby mashed up carrots isn't that much more glamourous in the beautiful sunlight than it is inside, but it was a nice change nonetheless. THEN, as I'm running to get MY lunch to eat outside with the little fella, I grab my muffin and hop up the remaining stairs, only to look into my empty Starbucks sack. So I turn around and step back down the stairs to find that wandering pastry... and step right into something gooey. Yep, stepped right into my muffin. Through the toes and the whole bit. Yummy. So as to not mess up all the carpet on the steps, I have to hop up the stairs on one foot and wash my foot off, including that stray blueberry stuck between the two biggest toes. So funny :) Anyway, so got the kids from school, hit the park which we had to leave after 1/2 hour because nanny had to use the restroom- pronto! Headed home and anxiously awaited Mom's return home so I could get ready for the OPERA!
She got home around 5 (total kudos to her, didn't think it would happen!), and I rushed in and out of the shower and into my dress, makeup, and a quick up-do for the hair. Into the heels and grabbed my clutch purse that my dad bought for me at a thrift store in Omaha. Such good taste, Dad! Never thought it'd see the opera, huh? :) Ran-walked the 2-3 blocks to the train station in my stilleto heels, and hopped on a train. During this whole time I'm thinking,
"Man, I look good. I wonder if all these people are thinking about how good I look. Are they wondering why I'm looking so good?" Basically I'm so excited about actually being dressed up for once that I'm thinking all sorts of irrationallities. (spelling?)
So I meet Allie there and she looks beautiful. I look beautiful, she looks beautiful. There are people all around much less dressed-up as us, but once we get inside the BREATHTAKING building, we realize that the people with the expensive seats like ours are dressed up as well. It's such the suckers in the cheap seats gallavanting around in jeans. Haha.
The opera was amazing. It was so unreal to be there in such an amazing space with people yelling "Brava! Brava!" while wearing Gucci and Chanel and sitting 12 rows from an award-winning orchestra and singers. The singing was amazing, and half the time I didn't even CARE what they were saying because I just wanted to listen to the gorgeous sounds of the singing and just lose myself in the moments and drink in every second. The leading lady was so fantastic, her arias were magestic and the physical comedy of her every movement made you fall in love with her! And the leading man had some sort of an allergic reaction 3/4 through so the understudy was called out and gave one heck of an ending to the whole deal. It was fantastic. I took pictures, I'm going to take them to CVS and get a digital CD w/ them as to try and get them on the blog... we'll see. :)
Anyway, so got home at 2-3 am Sat. morning from the city, so after choir I slept all day yesterday and basically did nothing. Not too proud of myself for that, but all is forgiven because today was full of greatness!
Went to church, albeit an hour late because I'm still, after 23 years, confused by daylight savings time, so I went to Sunday School and part of church then headed home to head into the city and hit Little Italy with Allie. It was another beautiful day, and after turning a couple well-meaning waiters who thought we were so "beeeeeeautiful" trying to get us to eat at their eateries, we found a great Italian place WITH great outdoor seating. It was picturesque, I think I will have a mental picture of that for years. Sun beating down, eating Italian in Little Italy with a great friend, making fun of tourists walking by, just a great afternoon. The coffee I ordered came with sugar rock candy to stir into the coffee. How cool is that? :) Then I headed home and had coffee with Regine at Panera (right off the train station) before heading home. What a weekend, huh? Megan comes on Tuesday, so I'm going to have to get serious about cleaning and not just talk about it sometime tomorow. NO LATER! I HAVE TO DO IT TOMOROW! Anyway, I love you all, thanks for caring about my life and I just love you all :)
love christina
Special love to my sister and sister-in-law and brothers tonight, you all will prlly never know how much and how often I lift you all up in prayer. I pray William and James will grow to be amazing men of integrity and purity. I pray that Sam and Bethany will continue to encourage others with their marriage as much as they have encouraged me, for truly, you both are better as a team than you were alone. And Caroline, I pray that you will find peace in who God says you are and that alone and that you will see what he sees in you. I love you all so much, and thank God for you every day. :)