Weekend Recap!

We had a great weekend! The girls & I hit the road Thursday night to meet hubby in Rhode Island for a mini getaway. On Friday, we drove up to the Burlington Mall in Massachusetts. That mall is a special place for us. When we were going through IVF (2005 & early 2006), we stayed in Lexington for the time between retrieval & transfer. We spent lots of time hanging out at the Burlington Mall (and Barnes & Noble sipping on Starbucks drinks and reading!). We actually received our first embryo report while we were having lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, and I had told Anand that one day we would bring our kids to lunch there to reminisce. We have brought them there since, but decided to go again. So, we had lunch at The Cheesecake Factory and walked the mall with them. We got some of our favorite appetizers to share as a meal: spicy ahi tempura roll (this was my favorite appetizer, but either my tastes have changed or something because I wasn't that impressed with it this time-it had way too much batter.), sweet corn tamale cakes (LOVE these!), and the fried calamari (so good!). We ordered a slice of cheesecake for us all to share back at the hotel. Yum :)

Saturday morning we woke up and weren't sure what we wanted to do. We got ready to head out and decided to drive to New Haven, CT to go to:


We wanted to check out the children's furniture department to get new beds for the girls. Well, the beds turned into a new bedroom! We decided that would be their birthday/Christmas gift-redecorating their bedroom. They are super excited! I think Anand was more excited than them, though! He saw this one set-up and decided that they needed the entire set. We had the car so we knew we would have to go back for the furniture. I wrote everything down to make sure we had everything and we went to town. It ended up being a whole day spent at IKEA. And the next day we went back with the truck to get the furniture. The collection is called "Mammut". It's pink and adorable-reminds me of the Flintstones! I will be posting pictures once we get their room done, but for now here are some images from the IKEA website of what we got:

Beds:


Wardrobe:


Dresser:


Chairs:


Nightstand:


Stool:


Lighting:


Mirror:


Rug:


Area rug:


For bedding, Suri chose the hearts pattern:



Maya chose the vegetable pattern (?!)-the colors coordinate, so no big deal:



We also got the mattresses, comforters (the sets they chose were duvets which is awesome because we can change them if we want), pillows, and some coordinating blankets. Their room is going to be so pretty! I can't wait to see it!

So, that was Saturday & Sunday in a nutshell! Monday morning, Anand had to work so the girls and I got up and headed back home. We stopped at Trader Joe's to pick up some groceries and got back home so I could do laundry and prep for the week. It's going to be a fun week! On Wednesday I have facilitation and then Girl's Night (me & the girls go with a couple of friends to shop & have dinner). Friday night I'm going to see this:



Have a great week!