Girls Weekend

Marilou came into town from Denver to visit us for Memorial Day weekend. Maggie immediately reached out for her to pick her up as soon as she met her as if she thought she had finally found her real mother. With her blonde hair and blue eyes, Maggie looks more like Marilou than either Erik or me. It was the beginning of a good weekend since I didn't have to worry about getting Maggie to warm up to our guest.

As soon as Erik heard Marilou was coming to town he decided it was a girl's weekend and he needed to turn up the testosterone. So he drank beer and watched a movie in the basement Friday night, drank beer and watched hockey on Saturday and drank beer and went to the horse races on Sunday. I'm not sure why he doesn't want to hear about all of the gossip from our days of working together 5 years ago for the 10th time. Who wouldn't enjoy that?

On Saturday just the girls went to DC and had a nearly perfect day. Looking back we could have made it more perfect by letting Maggie play a little rather than getting her up from a nap, putting her in a carseat, putting her in a stroller and expecting her to be happy all day long. Poor thing was fed puffs all day long to keep her happy when all she really wanted to do was play in the grass. But regardless it was a beautiful day outside and Maggie was 90% good. The other 10% I would be unhappy too.

We were all sad to see Marilou leave on Sunday and Maggie cried real tears all the way home. Sorry honey, maybe you can go on Maury Povich someday to find out if she IS your mother. For now you're stuck with your brown hair/brown-eyed parents.