I am seriously going to miss football Season! (I cannot believe I just typed that!) As a creature of habit, I have gotten used to happily blogging part of my week-end away. After today, that comes to an abrupt end. Although I love playing with my husband on the weekend first and foremost, it doesn’t take long for me to establish a routine and enjoy it. These hours of reading on week-ends has been fun, relaxing and entertaining. I end up learning a few things I didn’t know, and it has been easier to keep up on all my favorite reads as well. With the conclusion of The Super Bowl, my week-end blogging comes to an end. :-( The hubby did remind me, that in eight months football will be back though.

Although I won’t be sitting with my eyes glued to the game today, I will make more than a couple of appearances in the TV room, to cheer on my home state’s team, the Seahawks! I truly hope they rip the shit out of Pittsburgh! (My husband’s all time favorite team and his residence for a few years as well.) hehehehe…

Yesterday was a busy day, with both rugrats having basketball games, one at 9:00 AM and one at 3:00 PM. We were up late with the kids, since my daughter’s best friend Brooke was staying the weekend with us, and visiting with Brooke’s mom and my close friend Roxanne. Roxanne was married to her long time significant other David on New Years Day, and it was fun catching up on married life with her.  Although it was difficult getting up Saturday morning to see Riley off to his game. A game I missed this week, and said a silent prayer of thanks that my older son Robby took him to. (Bad mommy!)

This rugrat week seemed more then a little long for both my husband and me, so we devised a plan to make sure after Tayler’s game, that the kids would have some fun, and we would get a break! We took them to an indoor amusement center called Amazing Jakes, where you check them in, give them tokens and let them run wild! Oh how I love this place! It’s all-you-can-eat pizza, pasta, salads and desserts, with laser tag, bowling alleys, games, games and more games, with prizes for the tickets they win. We paid their admission, made sure they had spending money, and got them each 100 tokens and we were off!

Giving us peace and quiet while we ran a few errands and then time to hit the pool hall across the street from Jakes to have a bite and play some billiards. Having not played in quite some time, both Kevin and I were more then a little rusty, but we had a good time relaxing, laughing and eating pizza with white sauce, artichokes, tomatoes and chicken. Not a variety of pizza the kids would ever consent to eating. Kevin won all the pool games, although I consistently was ahead of him, and either choked on the 8-ball losing the game, or lining the eight ball up for him to end it. We had a good time even if I did lose consistently.

Like any holiday, Super Bowl Sunday is a holiday to my husband, so he planned a special dinner as well. We are having the infamous Turducken that we order from New Orleans. He is preparing it differently then we did at Christmas so I have hopes that it will turn out juicy this time around. As he is injecting the bird with apple juice, hopefully the turkey, chicken and duck combination will keep its flavor, tenderness and juices more so than the Christmas turducken did. We’ll see. If this one doesn’t turn out better then Christmas, turducken for a holiday meal will be retired.

Hope your Super Bowl Sunday is a fun one! And that you enjoy seeing Pittsburgh getting their asses kicked as much as I will. 

3T