Right On Time

It turns out that spring, spring break, and MJ all showed up right on time. "March Madness" is officially over at work, I'm so so glad to have Mike back home, and I'm incredibly grateful that that his 10-day house-hunting leave overlaps with my 4-day spring break. 

Best things so far about having husband back:

• Getting home from rehearsal at like 10:30pm and collapsing on the couch because there is pain in forgotten muscles and I'm beyond exhausted. Then, Mike quietly tells me he made gnocchi today (yes, MADE it) and asks if I would like some. I would almost just prefer going to bed at this point, but I try just a little bit and it is absolutely the most delicious comfort food with a roasted carrot cream sauce that I just decided to eat a whole bowl. I think he thought I wouldn't like it, but unfortunately, I liked it so much that I'll now be requesting it on the regular.
• Running dates where we don't take our ipods because I ramble and then Mike tries to teach me cadence callbacks.
• Running mundane and annoying errands that turn into adventures because you have a buddy.
• Watching all of Season 2 of Orphan Black (not by facetime). 

This is exactly how I felt this past Saturday...

A picture of Ashton at his first Easter Egg hunt. Too cute.

On Thursday Mike, Josh, and I went to see Man of La Mancha by Shakespeare Theatre Company. This season has been REALLY incredible. The last 2 shows were pretty spectacular, but MJ had to miss out due to NJS. Man of La Mancha was possible the best show to celebrate his homecoming. We all got pho for dinner and then the boys got Rita's for dessert. Since I prefer ice cream or frozen yogurt to custard, I sought out finding my own dessert before the show. Luckily, I have vast knowledge of places where you can find ice cream in this city and Luke's Lobster had just brought back their cherry ice cream cookie sandwich (everything is cherry themed in DC this time of year for the Cherry Blossom festival). It was delicious and I made the boys try it.

On Saturday evening, Mike and I had a dinner extravaganza with Jessie and Duncan. I had been at Jessie's the night before for a show party and realized that all four of us had been wanting to try Hank's Oyster Bar for happy hour. So we decided to go on Saturday and have some wine and oysters. Raw oysters are delicious and I even ate some without cocktail sauce. 

After oysters and drinks, we decided we needed a real dinner and Mike wanted to introduce them to Medium Rare: a place in Barrack's Row that has a pre-set menu of salad, steak, and fries. I feel like I've been there a lot, but it's still good every time. However, we've never had room for dessert there. It does help when you have 4 people to split dessert between. Since dinner was so good, I was honestly expecting the sundae to be lackluster, but it was absolutely delicious!!! Add this to my list of places to get ice cream in the city:)

Mike and I went home for Easter and had a great time spending time with my family. Ashton is starting to say words and he is so animated all of the time. We watched a movie and ate smoked salmon, pasta salad, and eggs: both the hardboiled and Reese's variety. 

I just really liked this quote from Rob Bell about "resurrecting love"...

Because my mom is always asking how Rupert is doing, here is a video to demonstrate the kinda life he has going for him right now: