Odds and Ends

Nothing terribly exciting to report, but in the spirit of this being a record of my life, I guess I'll find a few things to mention ;)

We had another beautiful day at the beach today. Normally, we do errands or the playground or story hour in the morning, then I let Eden nap for ninety minutes and we head down to the beach right after she wakes up and spend the afternoon there. But today we needed to be back early for Sadie's riding lesson, so we deviated from the norm and headed out right after breakfast. We went down early (before 10), and while the morning is definitely not my favorite time of day to be on the beach, it was kind of nice to enjoy the relative quiet before it gets really crowded.

We ate lunch there and then headed back home around 1pm, so I could get Eden down for a nap and let Sadie chill out a bit before her lesson. Sadie ended up falling asleep in the car on the way out to the stable (she was wiped from the ocean, I think), but she rallied upon waking and had a great lesson. We have decided to do her birthday party there. I'm relieved to have sorted out what we are doing, as she just got an invitation to another party that will be the week before hers - who are these uber organized mothers who manage to send out invitations six weeks in advance?!

Anyway, we ended the day with dinner out tonight, which was a nice change from the norm (must be the theme of the day), and now I'm just about to go to bed. We've got a busy weekend ahead (my SIL and niece are coming up from Maryland tomorrow and on Sunday it is our other niece's first birthday party - we're also having Sadie's friend Olivia's family over for dinner tomorrow night...) so I'll probably be scarce until I'm back at work on Monday.