How's everyone been? We've been pretty good over here. It's been a quiet week. It rained twice this week. Once like crazy and once just drizzle. But other then that, just hanging around. : ) On Wednesday, Noboru made us dinner. It's a nice change since I am usually the main cook around here. ; ) So, I enjoyed that. He made us Indian curry. It was nice to see him, throw the garlic in the food processor and onion and piece of an apple, fry up the chicken, add all those spices and make dinner. He also did all the dinner clean up too. What a guy. : )
Dinner from Wednesday that the hubby made.
It misted/lightly rained one day. But the other day this week it also rained like crazy. It seriously did.
The water from the rain started covering parts of the lawn completely. When I drove the kids to school and when I picked them up, I had my windshield wiper blades on the fastest setting and it still wasn't fast enough for the rain. It was crazy. That one day...the day of the lots of rain day....it rained during the night, when we woke up, all morning, all afternoon all the way until that evening. And then it finally fizzled out. That was a full day of nonstop rain.
See the water crashing on the table? Crazy stuff. But the positive is...the grass really needed it. ; ) So that is the bright side.
Today I snapped this picture...the time on the clock says....1:18pm It was this afternoon and I already had Noah with me at that time today, so he was on weekend already...and I already chopped up the chicken for tomorrows karaage obento. I also had ran to the store with Noah today too. To pick up the last minute things for tomorrow's undokai/field day/sports day. All the mother's in our area are in full blown busy preparation mode today. So much to prepare and think about.
This picture was taken of Branden at the elementary school field at 5pm this evening. They said nobody could get a spot until 5:30pm today. I showed up at 4:45pm. Knowing they'd open it early. Good thing I did, the parking lot was nearly full 2 spaces left and I took one. And the other mom parking her car took the last one. Branden is a red hat this year and so we went to that part of the field. When the teacher said in Japanese basically..."go ahead" the mother's and I am kidding you not. Ran. Not walked....flat out ran. To grab a spot. So, I ran too. So there me and my flip flops went running across the field. Feeling like a nerd. But...I must say, I did get a fantastic spot and front row. So, I didn't feel too nerdy after all. ; ) We put the stakes into our corners of our leisure sheet. Put our table (unfolded) on top of it and umbrellas (unfolded on there too) Our last name's on everything (sheet, umbrella, etc). Same with everyone...their names are all on theirs too. And we left headed home. The time on my car as I was driving out of the school? 5:35pm. Good thing I went when I did, I thought.
So many of the first rows gone (this is the red hat side and that sheet and stuff is ours in this pic, closest to the camera). And the white hat side.....the whole front row was already gone by the time we left (those white hats were really on the ball ; ). I'm not kidding. And so many mother's with kids in tow, were walking *towards* the areas as we were walking out. Tomorrow is going to be no stress. Our obento is wisely prepped already. Our spot has been saved already (phew) and so tomorrow we can just sorta relax and enjoy it all. I'll wake up around 5:30am and get the obento made. Noboru just has to make the rice balls/onigiri, that's his only task. : ) I'll make a few omlettes for breakfast. Throw a little concealer on, some Mac studio fix. And we'll be sitting on that field from probably 8:00am until I think they said it ends at 3:45pm. So until about 4pm or so. Sunday, Noah is going to a senior facility/nursing home. His yochien is going to be singing there in hopes to brighten the seniors day, so that's Sunday. So, we'll be up at the crack of dawn Saturday *and* Sunday. Weekend? What weekend? Ha ha ha. It's true...I will have no (sleeping in late type) weekend this weekend but that's okay. Getting to sit and enjoy sports day is actually pretty fun. And watching my youngest singing to some seniors sounds like fun too. And ahhh, I can always sneak in a nap this coming Monday or Tuesday. : ) : ) Have a wonderful weekend all of you. I'll catch up with you all after this weekend is over.
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