I have this week off from work which is just as fabulous as it sounds.  Most of the week I’m actually spending up here in Beverly, Mass. – a small town on the North Shore (just outside Boston) where Esther lives.  Les is out of town on business so I’m chilling w/Es and the girls.  Today’s Riley’s first birthday (yay!) and since Es has Wednesday morning activities, I’m spending a few hours online at a nearby Panera Bread.  What can I say…I’m a sucker for free wireless.

So Chena and I drove up Monday afternoon and arrived around 9pm.  Yesterday we spent just sorta hangin’.  We drove to a park so Chena could run free for a bit.  After nap time we left Chena at home and drove over to a playground to meet up with a couple of Es’s mommy-friends and their little energy balls.  I managed to practically give myself a concussion by standing up under a steel beam on the jungle gym (clearly I don’t have the necessary mom-sonar).  When we got home, discovered that Chena had managed to get out of the blockaded kitchen and somehow got herself locked into the baby’s room upstairs.  That’s my dog.

Last night we watched Becoming Jane with Anne Hathaway.  If you haven’t seen it, you must.

Today, as I said, we are each doing our own things until lunch or so.  Tonight Es & I have a babysitter coming so we can go out to dinner.  I’m not sure exactly what that’s going to look like for me…  We’re going to The Cheesecake Factory which I haven’t been to in AGES, but who doesn’t provide nutritional information for anything from their menu, so the items I have been able to find are WAAAAY over my WW Points balance for the rest of the day, but I may just end up throwing caution to the wind.  My birthday is Friday, after all…

So that’s really it.  Chena & I will head back home on Thursday after the rush hour has more-or-less ended.  Hopefully the trip will go as smoothly as the one up here did!