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| On the evening of my birthday, before we headed to dinner! |
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| Could Julia look more thrilled to be in this picture?! ;-) |
I got up on my birthday and was about to hop into the shower when Aaron walked into the bathroom holding a steaming plate of scrambled eggs. I was so confused. I laughed, "Aaron, that was so sweet of you to make me breakfast! Why didn't you just leave my plate in the kitchen, though? I can't eat breakfast in the shower!"
He said, "I was trying to bring you breakfast in bed, but I'm just a little too late."
I assured him it was fine and to just put some foil over the plate and set it on the table until I was done getting ready. I was amused all through my shower thinking about how absurd (and yucky!) it would have been if I'd chowed down in the bathroom.
When I arrived at my parents' house, my mom had made some delicious mini applesauce muffins and a hot chai tea for me to take to work. I grabbed a quick lunch on the way to my parents' house to visit with my mom and Julia over my lunch hour.
The physician I'm working with this month, who is super, gave me some really great advice and some encouraging positive feedback before letting me off early for the afternoon. I picked up Julia and enjoyed playing with her until Aaron got home from work.
I wanted to try going somewhere I'd never been before for dinner, and we decided on Sushi Train. It was so fun! There is a big circular bar in the middle of the restaurant, in the center of which is a cooking area where chefs are busy making sushi. When they are done, they put a clear cover over the plate, put a little paper trifold sign on top with the name of the sushi and its ingredients, and put the plate on top of a train that moves around the bar. Then, as the train goes past, you can just grab a plate of sushi off of it.
I think it's a really cool concept for a restaurant, especially for families with kids. Julia was going nuts watching the train; she was waving her arms excitedly all through dinner. That, of course, made it easier for Aaron and I to enjoy our own dinner, which we did! We tried four different kinds of sushi, and all of them were delicious. We'd looked at a menu briefly when we came in, and the prices for sushi seemed to range from $6-$10. So, we were expecting our bill to be $30-$40. When the prices were rung up and we got our bill, imagine our surprise when the total was $13.89! We finally noticed the color coded plates and prices hung on the wall. As it turns out, the four piece portions that go around the train range from $1.75 to $3.55 - the menu prices must have been for much larger portions. Aaron said now that he knows how cheap it is, he's going to eat a lot more next time ;-)
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| The train was SUCH a scream for Julia! |
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| TRAIN!!!!! |
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| There was LOTS of arm waving going on as the train passed! |
When we got home, we put Julia to bed and watched the latest episode of The Office, which was really funny. Then Aaron gave me my birthday card. When he handed it to me, I initially thought he must have not have had any nice paper handy and used scrap paper from work, since it was written on a blue piece of OSU progress note paper. But, then I started reading it, and it was a SOAP note about me! It was both hysterical and touching. He is so creative!
And then, he gave me my birthday present: a book called This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. It is an anthology of over 100 women writing about the triumphs and challenges of balancing medicine, marriage, and motherhood. It was such a thoughtful present, as Aaron knows I feel overwhelmed sometimes by all I'm juggling and wish I knew more people who understood what I'm going through. I feel like I was given the gift of some wise older sisters in the field who truly understand and can serve as an inspiration! My husband is the best :-) I have much more to say about the theme of the book, but I'll save it for another post.
Aaron made a quick trip to the grocery store for a few things (diapers being the real necessity!). When he returned home, we continued on our latest project of framing some photos for our house. After that we watched an episode of Eureka and enjoyed some Magnum Double Caramel ice cream bars, before calling it a night.
Sunday, I got to celebrate with some family and friends with a kickball tournament! We live right by an elementary school with some four square courts painted on the blacktop, so we spent a couple hours out in the warm October weather playing my old playground fav. Then, we came back to our house for a meal Aaron and I had prepared earlier that morning (chicken tikka masala, naan, a salad, and Calypso pie) and had fun playing a game and visiting.
The birthday fun continued with some clothes shopping at the mall with my mother-in-law this week! Julia's gift to me also arrived this past week - two mugs with her photos on them! What a sweet baby!
I also enjoyed many cards, gifts, phonecalls, emails, text messages, and facebook posts with warm wishes from friends and family. I am so grateful for the gift of life and all the people who make it so rich and meaningful! Praise God for this new year!
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