Tonight we took Allison out for her Birthday dinner. I had the night off and we went to the Eagle Brook Saloon. We’d been there for previous birthdays and have always had a good meal. Tonight was no exception. We had a great meal and a lot of fun as well.
We split an order of their buffalo wings and everyone had some. The kids love the wings at the Eagle Brook Saloon. I noticed that they had a Stuffie topped with scallops and bacon so Allison and I ordered that along with a White Buffalo pizza. I can’t say that I really care for a ranch based sauce but I did like the pizza overall. The scallops were excellent and such a cool touch to the Stuffie.
Before and After dinner we played a little game called Round Room Writing. It is simple. There is a 5 minute timer. Each person has a paper and pen. For five minutes you start writing a story. At the end of five minutes you pass your paper to the person next to you. Another five minutes and the second person continues the story. We did this 4 times so each story had a part from each of us. When we were all finished we read the stories aloud and laughed like crazy at the silliness of the story and sometimes at my handwriting.
It was a really nice dinner and at the end we shared a cookie pie that was really tasty.
I’ll admit it. On those nights when Allison goes out and I have the kids to put them to bed I tend to forget a lot of things that need doing. I get the important essential stuff done like bathing, teeth cleaning, prayers and meals. Not in that order. But I forget things like new medications once in a while. We end up watching just one more show or playing one more round of video games. Tonight Eva had gone out with my sister and while she was out she bought Allison a birthday gift. Andrew was upset because he didn’t get a chance to do that, too. I told him that my gift to Allison would be from all of us. That’s what you do when the kids are not old enough to go out shopping on their own.
Eva was the one who reminded me that the kids can still make cards. She was working on her card to Allison and I called Andrew in and told him that he could make a card for her. He set out to make a special Pop Up card and spent a good deal of time drawing a portrait of Allison. He looked at the one that Eva made of Allison when she was in First grade and first asked if she would draw one for him. She politely refused and suggested that he can do one just as well. So he did. I know that she will love it, especially the detail he put into it.
