This week is Mark's Spring Break from school, and we've really been enjoying the time he's been home. (I can't even tell you how wonderful it is to be experiencing such nice weather. Spring is definitely here, and I'm so excited!) The past couple of days have definitely been ones to remember, and it's not because we've gone on a trip for break like we would've wanted. It's because there have been a few odd things happening to us.
Monday nothing terribly strange happened. It was Mark's court date. He's been working on a case all school year for the clinic he's been participating in, and this Monday was when his case went to court. It was his first big chance defending someone on this asylum case, so he was preparing for it for a long time. Apparently the judge didn't rule for or against them, but he's just kind of "on the fence" about the case. Mark's team has to do more research and come up with more information that the judge requested before the next court date, which is in June, before the judge will make a ruling. So, I guess that means that Mark did his part well enough, knowing that it was a fairly difficult case to win.
As for me, the strangest thing to happen on Monday was that I went visiting teaching and stayed at her house for about 3 hours. I wouldn't normally impose on a person's time for that long, but she's a new mom too, and I think the both of us just needed some social time. The three of us were just chatting away, talking about our little babies, watching them dose in and out of sleep, and just enjoying time together. I think she needed the time just as much as I did... I figured that I didn't really have anything waiting for me at home since Mark was in court and he hadn't called to let me know how it went yet... so I stayed there. Turned out that Mark had gotten home just after I left, so the whole time he was wondering how long I would be gone... no harm done... other than throwing Canon's sleep routine out the window!
Now Tuesday was a bit more odd. We slept in a little later than usual because Canon let us. We were just enjoying some time at home as a family when suddenly we had to make an emergency trip to the doctor. I'm not going to tell you why, so don't ask! I'm still embarrassed about it! Then, since we were out, and we didn't really get to eat lunch before we left, we went to Burger King and then out to buy Mark's birthday present. Really, it turned out to be a long wild goose chase... that's still not over. Mark made a New Year's Resolution to do something constructive with his hands each month, and so he decided he wanted to build a model. Do you even know how difficult it is to FIND one of those around here? We went to about 3 different stores right in our area. None of them sold the kind of model Mark wanted. Then we drove an hour west of here to a place we found online, and that turned out to be a place where a bunch of guys come to race the remote control cars they built themselves... not what we were looking for. We then went to the Natick Mall to see if there might be something there... nope! Then decided to check out Toys 'R' Us, but they didn't have anything either. After all that, we just went home and watched LOST. (We finally got all caught up through Netflix. It was the first time in 5 1/2 seasons that we actually watched an episode as it aired on TV.) For some reason Canon had a REALLY hard time going to sleep that night. He woke up from me putting something away in his room, and then he was screaming for over 10 minutes. I guess we threw him for a loop with our outing for the day.
Wednesday I was planning on staying at home, but then Mark found some good news online regarding the Utah Bar Exam Application process. (He needs to submit an FBI background check, and it takes 8 weeks. So he didn't finish all his application stuff because he was waiting to get that back. Turns out that they'll let you register without the background check completed!!) So we were rushing around to get the last bits of his application together so that he can try to make the first late fee deadline, which is this next Monday. We drove out to Quincy to get a certified driving record, and if we had known how simple it was to do it there, we would've never even tried the other 3 RMV locations he already went to. Sheesh! Once we got back, Mark was going to go through all his application materials to make sure everything is there and then go to the Post Office to send it off.
While he was doing that, I decided to go grocery shopping. Canon was still sleeping in his car seat, so I figured I could get everything done while he was still napping and then I can get him home with all the groceries and everything would be hunky-dory. Well, that's what I thought until I got to the check-out line and discovered that someone had stolen my wallet...right out of my diaper bag in my cart!! I thought that there was something suspicious when I got a phone call from Bank of America verifying a strange transaction on my debit card. I wanted to call Mark to make sure that it wasn't him before I just said that I didn't authorize it, so I took down the information that the automated-call sent me and proceeded to the check-out lanes. It never occurred to me that my wallet was not in my diaper bag where I left it at the beginning of my shopping trip. Ugh! The worst part of the whole ordeal was that I was so stressed out about all the phone calls I was going to have to make to cancel the cards and go to the bank and everything... I went to the service desk to talk to them about the food in my cart... but not once did I think about calling the police until after I got home and Mark mentioned it. Ugh, again! So I called to file a report, but they said they'd call me back. I returned to the grocery store to talk to them about it, but they couldn't really do anything until the police filed the report and asked the store for the surveillance footage. I wanted the whole thing to just be over, but the police were taking their sweet time in calling me back. So, Mark suggested that we go out to eat dinner... to make me feel better. (Did I mention that I have a really sweet husband?) I was in no mood to cook after that, so we dined at Uno. It wasn't until after we finished eating that they finally called me back to take the report.
Not only have I managed to mess up my son's sleeping schedule (no matter how hard I tried to stick to it) for 3 days in a row (and bad nights' sleep to pay for it), but I've also managed to lose my wallet while I was no less more than 10 feet away from my cart at any moment. Oh well...what's done is done. I did all I could do about it today, and I'll have to the rest tomorrow... including grocery shopping again. I wonder what the rest of the week will bring us!
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