Weekend Wrap Up

It was a busy weekend after a busy week, but that is the usual around here.  Brent was out of town for business last week. Don't feel too sorry for him...The business trip landed him in Cancun eating seafood and drinking beer while laying on a beautiful beach with topaz water.  But he did send me a picture of his view from lunch one day....

I think the least he could have done was included a "wish you were here" with the pic.  Or maybe he didn't! ha ha ha!


Friday night, Nina and I took the boys to see Wreck It, Ralph! in 3D.  It got a two thumbs up review from all of our mini movie critics.

 

Will reaching out to catch the special effects.

After the movie, we went to a local pizza joint for pizza and wings.  On the way home, Jack was wearing his 3D glasses and commented that he could see really well while wearing them.  My antenna immediately went up.  I have terrible eyesight.  I mean legally blind, TERRIBLE eyesight.  And I started wearing glasses in the 3rd grade, so while Jack's comment did catch me by surprise (he passed a eye screening just this summer at his well checkup), it surely wasn't unexpected.  So I asked him if he had trouble seeing the board at school.  "A little bit.  It doesn't look blurry, but it looks kinda foggy."

Saturday morning, we were in the optometrist's office at 11am for an exam.  This was Jack's first eye exam and he handled it like a champ!  There was some discussion about whether or not to do the glaucoma test (where they shoot a puff of air into your eye), because some kids (and even some adults) freak out when it's done.  They decided to give it a try and Jack hardly flinched.  He had a surprised/stunned look on his face because how can you really prepare for something like that?  You just have to experience it.  But the technician was proud of him, and told Jack that from now on she was going to tell all of her patients that a 9 year old handled the test with no problems.  So the bottom line is Jack has healthy eyes, but needs a mild prescription for distance.

  Doesn't he look cute?!?!  I told Jack he was one of the lucky ones...he looks just as cute with or without glasses!  Poor thing, see how dilated his eyes were.  All afternoon, he kept asking me to check to see if his eyes were "still radiated." 

The rest of the afternoon was spent watching all of the teams that we love lose their games in the final minute.  Brent arrived home after the end of the Bama loss and I feel sure that he immediately wished he was back in Cancun.  My family kept a wide berth away from me for the rest of the night.  They are intuitive like that!

Sunday was the big rivalry game between the Saints and the Falcons.  As we were getting dressed for church, Brent said that when he was growing up, Honey would let him wear his Saints jersey to Mass on the Sundays that the Saints played the Falcons.  He asked the boys if they wanted to wear their jerseys to church. Yes! Yes, they did!

Your eyes do not deceive you.  In a family of Saints fans, Will, the little contrarian that he is, is our only Dirty Bird!  Jack has been hoping for years that Honey would excommunicate Will from the family for this transgression.  It was the talk at Mass.  Brent and I had several people make House Divided comments and that they would pray there wouldn't be too many tears shed that afternoon.  

It was a great win for 3/4 of our family.  A few tears were shed by our little bird, but it wasn't nearly the drama Jack and Brent would have displayed if the Saints had lost.  We had a big shrimp pasta dinner with a round of our favorite dinner time game "Question Minute to Win It."  Mama had about a half a bottle of wine which helped to take the edge of the loss, that and my parents' call to talk me down off the ledge.

Hey, what can I say.  Around here, we take our football seriously!