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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

What made us smile. Week of 05.21.12

Kyreen
  • Family time. This week, we focused on spending more time together as a family. With everyone so busy with work, school, and other social events, it's hard for everyone to get together on a daily basis. So this week, we made it a point to try harder at getting together even if it was just a couple hours out of our days. 
    1. On one of my night's off, I got to hang out with my little brother Kevin. We drove to Gilroy and walked around the outlets. Not necessarily to shop, but just to talk. I think it's so important to keep the line of communication open with teenagers-- which is why I think Kevin and I are so close. We call it our "bonding time" where we talk about school, his friends, and what's going on in his life.
    2. Date night. We re-instated date night last week, and we were successful at doing it again this week. Took hubby to the outlets to "window shop". We also discovered a sushi restaurant there. Who knew there is good sushi in Gilroy? Now we don't have to drive all the way to SJ to get some decent sushi!
    3. Mini BBQ with time around the fire pit. We had a small BBQ on Sunday followed by s'more making around the fire pit. We even followed that up with a game of Mario Party on the Wii before bed. When the kids were younger, we all used to play Mario Party and Smash Brothers together. We can get really competitive which makes for a lot of laughs. 
Glen
  • Cleaned out my email inbox. It's embarrassing to admit, but I had over 400 emails sitting in there. I'm following a new system and now it gets emptied every day. Virtual clutter is still clutter.
  • Gilroy Outlets. As stated above, we had a date night in Gilroy. I wanted to go window shopping and ended up taking a bit of the view home. On the plus side, we got Memorial Day sale prices without the Memorial Day rush.
  • Getting chased by a dog. Thankfully it was our dog happily chasing us around the park. It was exhilarating running around with Kai and Napoleon. I hope to do this regularly. We all need to play more often.

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