Birthday weekend

We spent most of this weekend celebrating Ramy's birthday. Okay, well, that's how I thought of it, but to be honest, I think he forgot it was his birthday at least half of Friday and after that was over the birthday thing. But that's how unassuming my Ramy is. Again, we're total opposites in that regard. I play up the fact that my birthday is a national holiday one seventh of the time, and he never remembers that his birthday is in fact a holy day of obligation. Speaking of which, we were in a state of mortal sin for not going to mass on the day of obligation, but we went today, so hopefully we're okay.

Ramy came home at lunch on Friday, even though it wasn't his 9/80, so Rebecca and I got to meet him after we got out of Gymboree for a birthday lunch and then Ramy got his car washed. And then we all went to Costco (it's like a day without sunshine if we don't go to Costco). Friday night, we went out to dinner in Claremont with Rourke, her new boyfriend Evan (also a PD), Ana, and Simon. We had a blast, and Rebecca was in rare form performing for new admirers. Ana and Simon are expecting a baby boy around Christmas. Evan and Rourke have been dating a few months now, and Ana and I wanted the dirt on how it is going with the. I think we were all on our best behavior, so I don't think we scared him off or anything.

Saturday, we went to breakfast at Carrows. Rebecca had a diaper blowout, and we hadn't brought a change of clothes, so we went back home to change. By that time, she was ready for a nap (and so was Ramy). We went to shop for Ramy's birthday present (2 new pairs of dress shoes) and some pajamas for Rebecca (since she's such a hot baby, she will need shorty pajamas for fall, and they won't be out much longer. Then we came home and watched the Olympics.

This morning, we went to 7:30 mass, got breakfast, and came home and relaxed. We attempted to get Rebecca to take a nap this morning, but she was far more intersted in other things. We met Ramy's mom and one of his sisters and her family for brunch at Marie Callendar's, and Rebecca again enjoyed putting on a show. She's become a real ham lately. She loved looking at her cousin Jessica (age 12), admiring Jessica's long hair and her dress, picking up Jessica's purse, and bringing a book to Jessica to get her to read it to her. Rebecca so wants to be a big girl!

I have a religion midterm on Tuesday evening, so I should probably do something to prepare for that. But I have to admit that I probably will do very little. I think, after 25 years of school, I've reached the point where it wouldn't devastate me if I only got a B. But it might say something bad about me if the worst grade I ever got in grad school was in a religion class. I am planning to finish my comp paper this week before my mom arrives. Woo hoo!

A prayer request: Please keep Lisa Grubbs and family in your prayers. I think I mentioned her on here before. She has been diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer and will be undergoing chemo and radiation for six weeks at MD Anderson, surgery, and then six more months of chemo. She has four little boys at home too, which makes everything more complicated. Her mom is my second mother Joy (for those of you trying to figure out who I'm talking about).