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Last Sunday, G and I headed off to the Minneapolis Brick Convention to see everything LEGOs! Ever since I bought the tickets, months ago, he couldn't wait to check it out. I was so happy that it was held at a location not too far from home, because it was snowing as we were driving there. Overall, it was a pretty neat experience. There were some amazing brick creations, and of course there was an opportunity to buy LEGO pieces! G has been on a 1980's spaceman kick, so he ended up getting Benny, the blue spaceman (from The LEGO movie), as well as Jenny, the white space(wo)man, as well. Once he had those two new pieces in hand, he was able to focus more on all of the cool builds they had displayed in the convention.






It was pretty crowded, so after we were done, I was quite happy to get out of the building into a quiet car. More and more, I'm hitting my limit of "peopling" at an earlier point during each crowded event I go to. But, I did it for G, and he loved it! (I was supposed to head to book club that night, but due to the weather, everyone wanted to stay in and just take it easy...so we did! The couch was the perfect place to be that night.)

I also had the pleasure of chaperoning G's field trip to the Minnesota History Center on Thursday. I had a great group of third graders that I basically followed around and made sure that they didn't get lost as we went from exhibit to exhibit. That was also a very fun experience, but oh my goodness, it wiped me out. (It might not have helped that I stayed out late with a friend the night before.) We were all feeling a bit exhausted by the end of the day, so I made the executive decision to skip taekwondo. We were all very happy with that choice.

Heading back to school on the very loud bus, ha!

We had a few other events that were supposed to happen last week, that for one reason or another didn't...and we took advantage of that free time. Ava and I were going to go to a college prep course on Tuesday night, but she begged me not to go (I think there were some hormones at work there), so I relented and said we'd go next year instead (I also confirmed with friends who have kids one year older that it's more appropriate to go as sophomores.)  I also had to work on Tuesday night - and luckily, that went as planned, hooray! And on Thursday night (after the taekwondo that we didn't go to), we were supposed to go to a stargazing event on the Red Pine field...but the weather was rainy and cloudy, so it was cancelled. Thank goodness, because I really don't think we could have pulled it together to go, especially after the field trip that day!

And Friday was my birthday! The kids didn't have school, and I took the day off of work, so we got breakfast together, and then ran errands during the afternoon. That night, Scott, me, and the kids headed to my parent's house for dinner, cake, and ice cream...and it was lovely! It was so nice to be celebrated by my people.



Scott and I are headed out to a nice dinner tonight, and then tomorrow, we'll be at home. It's been a super busy week, and more than ever, all of us like to have downtime to recharge.

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