{"id":1119,"date":"2007-04-02T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/02\/sunday-night-dianes-birthday\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T10:53:00","slug":"sunday-night-dianes-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2007\/04\/02\/sunday-night-dianes-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night – Diane's Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diane was already up and around when I woke up this morning.. no surprise there.. I ewnt down and wished her a happy birthday.   <\/span>There was bright sunlight streaming in the windows and it felt so much like Spring !  <\/span>As soon as I was properly awake I started in on the crepes.. Crepes have been  <\/span>the celebratory breakfast meal in our house since I can remember. I remember my mom making them for us when I was little..  <\/span>I knew there were several spare kids in the house, so I doubled the recipe and started crepe-ing out.. Diane cut up the fruit.. Both Max and Gabe surfaced early and by about 9:30<\/st1:time> we were ready for breakfast.. That’s normally still the middle of the night around here on weekends.   <\/span>We sat down to the breakfast feats and lit a candle for Sam to welcome him into the celibration of Diane’s birthday.. Everyone felt pretty good. <\/p>\n

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As soon as the breakfast dishes were clear,  <\/span>Diane took Gabe and his friends to go walk around Richmond<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.. then she came back and she, Chai and I hopped in the car and went down to the Catamount Ski Trail entrance about 2 miles down Duxbury road.. We figured the forest road there would be sunny and clear.. Sunny yes.. clear no.. there was still anywhere from 6″ to a foot of snow on the road. It was heavy and sticky stuff.. so it was slow going.. but   <\/span>the sun was out and so were we.. It was wonderful.. Cha had rolled in something pretty nasty yesterday.. so getting her out in the fresh air seemed like a doubly good thing to do.  <\/span><\/p>\n

   <\/span>After our hike, we all met up at the house again for birthday peasants and cake.   <\/span>It was a nice quiet birthday celebration. As always, we wrapped the presents in towels and socks..   <\/span>saves on wrapping papers.<\/p>\n

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Diane got some nice stuff.. including an Ipod for her yoga music from the three of us .that Gabe had picked out.  <\/span>Max had also made Diane a replacement for one of a set of earrings that Sam had made for Diane..   <\/span>I gave Diane something from Sam that I’d had made in Shanghai<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> a few weeks ago. This guy had a little stand where he copied pictures onto polished rock I lent him my Sam picture button . It was so cool watching him make this by hand. using only a hand punch and a soft hammer..<\/p>\n

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   <\/span>When it was time for cake we invites Scott, Adrianna, and Jeff in to have come on in and join us..  <\/span>Diane wanted 5 candles in her cake,. I think that’s going to be our new tradition going forward.<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>The middle of the afternoon we all just hung out.. Diane started reading  <\/span>some of the books she’d gotten for her birthday. Gabe and I spent some time working on our pond skimming set up for next week and Max and his friends worked on a music video they’re making for a contest.. It was all pretty peaceful..   <\/span>Several friends dropped by or called to wished Diane a happy birthday.. It was really nice. Jeff D brought a crocus that had just bloomed, Jen brought some SamStones and a cool vase she’d made. <\/p>\n

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Maureen had made her some bath salts. Sumner brought buy a hat he’d knit  <\/span>for Diane..<\/p>\n

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I know she felt loved.<\/p>\n

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Around 5:30<\/st1:time> Diane, , Chai and I took Gabe up to BRMS for Lacrosse practice.   <\/span>On the drive we saw a home made  <\/span>sign in Jericho<\/st1:placename> Center<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> that said ‘Coming Soon: A brand new McDonald’s ‘\u2026 which shocked us for a second.. until we realized that today was also April Fools!.. While Gabe  <\/span>was at practice, , Diane, Chai and I took anther walk at the Jericho<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> park. There were lots of dogs there for Chai to say hi to.. It was great being outside again When we walk, Diane and I talk about all sorts of things.. Today we talked about expectations.. and how it’s so easy to put so much weight on a day like a birthday.. or how easy it is to put expectations on ourselves, how are kids are doing , etc. .    <\/span>At this point we’re up, around and even enjoying ourselves sometimes..   <\/span>we figure that’s pretty good. Diane is such a wonderful, wise  <\/span>person.. <\/p>\n

   <\/span>Gabe got out of practice around 7:45<\/st1:time> and we headed in to Joyce’s for a birthday dinner. Max and Scott met us there and we had  <\/span>wonderful  <\/span>Chinese food for dinner. Gabe reminded us that we’d gone to Joyce’s for Sam’s 14hth birthday and even thought we were late for a movie they wouldn’t let us leave until they’d made him a special desert (fried ice cream)  <\/span>as a surprise..   <\/span>Tonight was less hectic.. we enjoyed our food and then placed a SamStone in one of the plants at the restaurant..<\/p>\n

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   <\/span>We got home around  <\/span>9:30<\/st1:time> and realized we still had a ton of stuff to do tonight.. Diane and I worked on a new version of a Sam T-Shirt that Hannah D. is going to help us get printed.   <\/span>We’re using a great picture of Sam and some artwork that he made.. I think they’ll be great. I’ll let everyone know when they’re ready.. Gabe and Diane then went to sleep . Diane had had a very good birthday.. I was really  <\/span>happy about that\u2026 <\/p>\n

I was thinking of going to bed myself when  <\/span>I realized I had to get our Tax prep together for tomorrow. .. I spend about 2 hours doing that\u2026 which brought up so many memories from last year..   <\/span>How many dependents do I have ?   <\/span>It’s just one of the many things that remind us each day of you Sam\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Diane was already up and around when I woke up this morning.. no surprise there.. I ewnt down and wished her a happy birthday.   There was bright sunlight streaming in the windows and it felt so much like Spring !  As soon as I was properly awake I started in on the crepes.. Crepes have … Continue reading Sunday Night – Diane's Birthday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}