Blue Roses

I blocked the IPs of the annoying comment spammers. Blissful quiet!

Last Thursday, I went out to dinner with my parents - just my parents - for the first time in five years. It was, I think, the second time in nearly 16 years. See, one of us has always had to be home with Josh. So mom and dad have gone out to eat, and dad and I have, but mom and I never and the three of us only on my 18th birthday before we saw Titanic the musical. But! Now Josh has a respite worker who comes a few times a month. And so I get to spend time with my parents.

Today, Megan came to stay with Josh and mom and I went shopping for two hours!! We hit the Gap (I got an adorable brown print skirt that is totally 1940s, with three cute clingy tops and the So Pink body spray which I LOVE, mom got a pair of pants, and Josh got two sweaters), browsed several stores, got some lunch, and bought me the cutest stationery in the world that was also fairly expensive EEEEK. LOL But wow, it was so much fun! We haven't done that in over 10 years - we used to take an hour or two to go Christmas shopping when I was in junior high, but mom was always super anxious to get home and so it was never really fun. Just lots of running and dragging. But this, this was so cool.

Then tonight, the three of us went out to dinner (PIE!) while Josh was at social club. It's so weird spending time with them. LOL But weird in a good way. It's fun.