We are so grateful we get to celebrate another trip around the sun for Hubby. He means the world to us and Michelle found him a new favorite restaurant for his birthday. With her work preparing for the Lunar New Year Festival, she was told several times to try out the new Dim Sum & Dumplings place in town and it did not disappoint! We cannot recommend this place enough and were actually kind of sad we had a different restaurant planned for later in the week with friends. But the company was great for both the family and friends outing so we cannot complain!
On MLK Day we celebrated Kate's half birthday as well, I took Natalie to the store to buy supplies for the strawberry Kate requested and Natalie made her "half" of a cake but stacking half circle layers. I can tell she did a great job not only by the compliments she received but also by the fact that cake was gone fast!
The next day I subbed for a coworker and got to go to Natalie's PE class, where they were playing pickle ball. Not only was it so fun for me to see Natalie have a good time, but at one point the students I were assigned to asked me to help them and she got to see be laughing and having a good time too. For the record, she is probably my only child who could enjoy their mom playing during her PE class and probably only because it was a one off occasion. lol
Something else that may or may not happen again is Michelle' participation in the Combined League Honor Orchestra. Even though it sounds more elite because it covers a wider area, Michelle preferred our school district's honor orchestra. She's also been missing a lot of school due to SCLA related activities so she didn't appreciated being gone another day to drive an hour away but hey, she got Freddy's before they performed Prelude from Hansel and Gretel, Dance of the Paper Umbrellas, and Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird Suite. I thought the performance was wonderful but I must admit I am not a musician.
While I was north of home watching Michelle, half of the family was south of town at Danny's basketball game against his girlfriend's school. Natalie was very impressed with FHS's dance team and was proud her brother was dating the team captain. It made our team's loss easier to handle.
For the next game our entire family was there, complete with Kate's "baby" from her AP Psych class. She asked Natalie to babysit so that the baby wouldn't be in the student section. Annabell was more than happy to help Natalie babysit. Also at this game was a CHSAA photographer who is friends with Matt so he got us all the photos to look at. Sometimes I think I should never try to take an action shot again and am very grateful to professionals willing to share their work.
There was a 3rd game that week with another win by a crazy amount and another team photo. We love basketball win or lose but it's more fun to win, even if you feel a little sorry for the other guys.
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