I especially enjoyed having a little break from entertaining J - Charlene is so great with him and he loves playing with Nana. He especially loved the 5 million rides around the house on his fire truck that Nana gave him. I don't know how your back survived that, Charlene! I thought for sure that he would be bugging me a lot to give him rides once Nana left, but he actually hasn't asked me once. I guess he knows that Mommy doesn't go there, especially 8 months pregnant Mommy.
Phil and his dad finished up the crown molding in Jackson's room and even took a trip over to Medford to pick up the beadboard and extra molding that Phil needed to finish the whole room. It really looks beautiful, and I know that Phil appreciated having his dad to help instead of me. :)
We had planned to go out to dinner together at least once and first tried to go on a Friday, but J definitely wasn't feeling well when he woke up from his nap and I didn't want the sitter to have to deal with an incredibly fussy toddler. So we canceled our plans for Friday and rescheduled for Sunday (since Sat. was Valentine's Day and we knew we wouldn't be able to get in anywhere, even in our small town). It's a good thing we didn't try to go out on Sat. because Jackson again was feeling terrible that evening - he was crying really hard for what seemed like no reason. We couldn't figure out what was wrong, but thought it had to be either teething or a stomach ache. I got upset, too, because he's hardly ever sick and it is really tough to have your baby screaming and crying in pain and not know why or what to do! Well, it must have been upset stomach because he had some really gross diapers on Sunday - blech! The poor babysitter even had to change two of them while we were out to dinner. I felt really bad!
Charlene and I wanted to go get pedicures together and we didn't get a chance to go until the last day they were here, so we were really looking forward to them. I made reservations at a nail place here in town and they were actually ready for us when we got there, which I thought was a good sign. Not so much - this turned out to be the worst pedicure I have ever had. The whole experience took less than 30 minutes and the entire time Charlene and I had to listen to the little nail techs (who were probably in their early 20s) talk about how they didn't feel like working that day and had so many errands to run when they were done with us. They actually even lied to customers who came in wanting services and said they were booked up for the rest of the day. They probably turned away over $150 worth of business - I wonder what the owners of the shop would have thought about that. The girl who worked on me did everything SO fast that it actually hurt and was awkward, instead of being pampering and relaxing. I will NEVER go there again. I think Charlene's girl did a better job, so that's good. I didn't tip my girl, which I never do, but I was so mad when I left there that I couldn't stand to give her extra money. Lazy people with no work ethic or sense of responsibility drive me crazy. Okay, enough of that. :)
Thanks for a great visit, Chris and Charlene!
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