Saturday Smiles

Since I tend to do more than my fair share of whining here, I've decided to start a new Saturday post that I hope to repeat every week. Because Saturday is a hard day for me to come up with anything cohesive, I'm going to start listing the little things that made my week a good one. Here goes Week #1:

• Dinner and a movie with a good friend last Sat. It may well have been my last dinner at La Baguette Bistro because she moves away in just over a month and Dave is not a fan of restaurants with real napkins and tablecloths. (But that place may be my favorite restaurant in Norman. Anyone else wanna go with me?)
• My two oldest kids being such big flirts at Day Camp. At one point, there were two little girls who HAD to sit on either side of Tristan any time we sat down for lunch, crafts, etc...Dave and I are fairly quiet people when it comes to strangers, so WHO KNOWS where this comes from? But it sure is fun to watch.
• How Natalie really stepped up and helped out with the younger kids all week. Once you are 11, you are more of a helper than a camper and she did not disappoint.
• Cool-ish weather for two of the five days of camp. It really makes a difference in everyone's moods-especially mine!
• My surprise baby shower/going away party at work that took place during the last hour of Wednesday's Day Camp. It just seemed appropriate to have it there in the Schoolhouse surrounded by kids I had been teaching all day as well as my own kids. The staff at work is SO small and everyone's to-do lists are so long that I really wasn't expecting ANY fuss at all-which made it all that much better.
• What a grown-up girl my 5 year-old "baby" turned out to be once the camp activities got started. I thought she would cling to me all week, but after the first 30 minutes she really didn't want much to do with me at all. I had NO idea she was such a pro at the Slip-n-Slide.
• Four kids in tie-dyed shirts that they pretty much made themselves. (Tristan lost interest and I did his for fun since I'd never made one before). Natalie's was by far the coolest shirt that anyone made, but I am completely biased.
• One of last year's campers trying to talk me out of calling Dave to come and pick Tristan up early when he started having a really bad day. Those two boys have been like oil and water both years of camp, but apparently they have each others' back when it counts. (And I was so touched/amused by it that I didn't call Dave after all.)
• Dave coming by after work and picking up the kids three of the five days so that I could spend another hour at my desk wrapping up loose ends before my last day without the kids to disrupt me.
• Frosty's on FRIDAY! (Thanks Sha'!)
• Shopping at Babies 'R Us with the gift card from my co-workers!
• Three loads of laundry done and put away before noon on Sat. (Yep, pregnancy insomnia strikes again!)

I'm sure there are more, but I think that's a pretty good list considering how hectic things were this week.