Good times

I loved last weekend because we got to catch up with a lot of friends we haven't seen for a while. Friday night our friend Scott was in town for his company's annual golf trip, so he played Cranium with us at Stephen's house. We mixed up the teams instead of doing couples vs. couples and Christy and I won! For so long I resisted playing that game because it's basically a combination of other games I hate (charades, Win Lose or Draw, Balderdash, etc.) but it is SO much fun.

Saturday we had dinner with Sallie and Steven (and their sweet, laidback three-month-old baby, Sadie Lyn). The main reason for the get-together was for all of us to see Maegan and Lee one last time before their first baby is delivered (Emily "Emma" Bennett is due in about two weeks). Maegan was gorgeous and glowing. Brandon and Stacey came too, which was nice, because it had been about a year since we'd seen them.

After dinner the conversation got really good (and a couple of times very heated), covering politics and religion and public education and child rearing and some other stuff. I was the only non-Republican in the group, which kind of sucked. But at one point Matt broke rank and argued against school vouchers, shocking me. Every once in a while he does that.

Sunday afternoon while Matt was doing the second fantasy football draft and Vinny was at an overnight retreat for the seniors at the school where he teaches I hung out with Kate at her house, which is a really cute cottage in the middle of horse country -- you have to take a half-mile-long gravel road to get to it. There's a big screened porch and windows everywhere and all you can see out of them are trees. Since I quit marathon training and she was out of town for much of August it had been a while since we got to talk, so I was glad we got to catch up. I also got to enjoy her two cats and her new puppy.

When I got home Matt convinced me that we should do a pizza-and-a-movie night, which isn't strictly in keeping with our "cook dinner every night" August policy, but he made a strong case. a)We had eaten a homecooked lunch that day; b)We believe in making exceptions to our rules; and c)It's a classic Matt and Jenn night. He also claimed that we had said from the beginning that ordering pizza counted as eating at home, but that's not true.