Shaye's 40th Birthday
It has been a little crazy around here lately. Brian has been travelling a lot! He was in NYC for three days, then the day after he arrived home, he left to go with his mom to visit his sister Lisa in Vancouver for almost a week. From what I understand they had a lovely time catching up and even met up with Brian's cousins Meaghen and Erica and they even explored a Christmas market. While I am sure that radiation is no picnic, it sounds like Lisa is doing as well as can be expected with it.
The day that Brian and his mom flew home, his other sister Julie went to have her appendix out. I thought this might mean that my plans to go to Collingwood for Shaye's 40th birthday may have to be cancelled but the surgery was an in and out surgery and she was home a few hours afterwards with Wole to take care of her.
So, while Brian boarded another flight to Vegas for work, I drove up to meet Shaye for her 40th birthday and Brian's mom stayed to watch the kids.
Getting away like this was such a treat. We went out to see Bohemian Rhapsody at the movie theatre, the story of Freddy Mercury from Queen. I was amazed and I truly think this movie should win awards. Then we talked until the wee hours of the morning. I woke up way too early as I forgot to turn off my regular alarms as it was a school day, (I think I got 4 hours sleep) and was unfortunately unable to go back to sleep, so we went about our day, swimming, and cooking a lovely roast dinner, playing cards and enjoying some indoor time as it was a crazy storm outside. We ended up talking until 2 am, enjoying specialty wine and cheese.
I was surprised how many people came and went over the few days that I was there despite the crazy weather outside, but it was nice to see all the people that came to bring their good wishes for Shaye's birthday.
I was gone Tuesday to Thursday and came home early Thursday morning so that Brian's mom could go see Julie who has been off work to recover.
I was ever so thankful for the get-away, and to celebrate my friend Shaye, thankful for an amazing mother in law who has been pulled in many directions too in the last few weeks, and also thankful that both Brian's sisters are doing okay despite their circumstances.