Whirlwind weekend

The weekend went off as planned. Almost. Saturday morning I called my dad, who was going to show up around noon, and asked him if everything still looked good. His reply? "Yeah, I'm still coming up tomorrow!" Uh...what? It wasn't a big deal, we were able to shuffle things a bit so we could hang out with my dad on Sunday morning, which gave us Saturday morning to just chill around the house.

Saturday evening we took the family to Reuben's place and hung out with a bunch of friends and friends' kids. Seeing my kid(s) play with my friends' kids will probably never stop being weird. It's like looking into a hall of mirrors where you see images of yourself, but smaller, repeating forever into the distance. Anyway, Griffin had an awesome time playing with the kids, and Dina and I had a great time with our friends, too.

Sunday morning my dad came over and saw Caden and Rohan for the first time. They treated him like one of the family, spitting up on him almost immediately. That's a sign of true acceptance right there! That afternoon we went to an indoor Equinox egg hunt (no wait...EASTER egg hunt) that was put on by the local Mothers of Multiples group that Dina recently joined. Eggs, easter bunnies, dozens of families with twins and triplets...with all those signs of fertility a woman could probably get pregnant just breathing the air in there. We met a family that lives close to us that has kids whose ages line up pretty close to our kids' ages; we'll probably be spending more time with them in the future, so that's cool. It's bizarre seeing so many twins and triplets in the same room. I was comforted by the fact that all the other dads there looked just as tired as I did. I'm glad I'm not alone!

And then, of course, Sunday night was D&D night at Ben's. R.I.P., Gary Gygax. The session followed the typical pattern of very little role-playing and a whole lot of hanging out and chatting, which was awesome. I managed to trade a bag of Cheetos for a six pack of Ryan's homebrew Irish stout. That's a win in my book! I left sometime around 11:00 p.m., and had some mundane stuff to do at home before I could go to bed, so this morning is a tired one. Hooray for coffee!!