
We're incredibly lucky to have a nice family support network. My parents would keep Yoshi if they could. This past Friday my parents began their little vacation with Yoshi. They took Yoshi and drove down to Orange County to visit Eric, Wendy, and Ellie. Oh and Sami, their doggie, can't forget her. My parents even braved the crowds and accompanied Yoshi to her very first trip to Disneyland, which Yoshi has been wanting to go to for almost 2 years now. Rumor has it that she even helped change Ellie's diaper and took the dog out to pee. I hope she continues this angelic behavior when she returns home.
While Yoshi was gone having a grand ol' time, Tom and I struggled coming up with things to do. We actually played with the toddler next door for about an hour just so we could get in some kid playing time. Man, we're pathetic. Even other parents called us out on our pathetic-ness.
We decided to spend our free time cleaning out our bedroom. We got rid of our large filing cabinet that sat in the corner of the room, recycled a slew of papers, reorganized and rearranged our bedroom furniture, and bagged up unwanted items for the thrift store (hopefully I can donate those tomorrow). Our room is more spacious now instead of the cluttered dumping ground it had been. Now the hard part will be keeping it clean
Actually, we did some stuff. We saw a
fun show at the Marsh theater just a couple blocks away from our house. We went to a couple bars. We went to a Pride party that our neighbors threw. We hung out with some other neighbors. We had a little photo shoot on the roof where the above photo was taken. And last night we went out for a late dinner at a little sushi restaurant in the Castro (and walked by 3 other sushi bars along the way). It's nice to be able to enjoy a late dinner and not have to stress out about making a child eat the food only to come home and have said child say, "I'm hungry!" It's also nice to have some time to focus on us as a married couple instead of us as parents. And the good news is that we are still fond of each other.
Tomorrow Yoshi comes home. I'm looking forward to it. I feel re-energized, which is great because the day after tomorrow we're all going to New Jersey for a wedding (Yoshi's the flower girl) and we come back Sunday night.