The Best Weekend

It may be months later, but I'm still remembering my best weekend of the winter. I want to document it so that I can recall how great it was when I'm fifty years old.

Valentine's weekend was better than I could have planned. I love those weekends where everything falls perfectly into place. On Friday afternoon, I was able to pick Spencer up at my parents' house because they were so kind to pick her up from school. We played around at their house for a little bit until I realized that it was snowing pretty hard and starting to stick! We quickly left for home but didn't get there for an hour due to the snow traffic. Usually, I would have been steaming, but it was really peaceful to watch the snow accumulate. Wes had already gone to the store to stock up on food, so I knew that we'd be snuggled in all cozy for the night.


The snow kept splattering down in big, chunky flakes, and we spent hours just staring out of the window. This kind of snow hasn't been around Greenville in at least a decade. It was beyond gorgeous as the snow started piling up all around our house. We took Spencer outside for the obligatory photos, but it was a bit cold to keep her outside for very long. We embarked on a cycle of eating, staring out of the window, finding another snack, and standing by the window again. In our house, when it snows, calories don't count. You are required to buy lots of fattening foods on the pre-snow grocery trip. I know that I gained at least three pounds because of the snow. We stayed up a little later than usual, and finally went to bed after looking out at the snow one more time (I fear disappearing snow, so I have to constantly check on it).


I loved waking up to a white yard, and we took Spencer outside to see if she would play in it. She was really hating on the snow. We tried to sit her up in her Randy from Christmas story jacket, but she just slowly drifted back, back, and back until she was lying back completely in the snow. Then she started crying, so we gave up on this idea.

"What are you doing to me?"

"Enough of this!"

We were able to relax for the rest of the day until it was time to get ready to go to Wicked! I have been wanting tickets for Wicked since I found out it was coming to Greenville a year and a half ago. We went to Liberty for dinner and began with Mai Tais at the bar. Liberty is my absolute favorite bar, and Wes and I love to sit there drinking Mai Tais even if we are getting a table to eat. We left just in time to get to Wicked. We had much better seats than when we saw it at The Fox, so we were thrilled to really be able to see what was going on.

Wes and I have never been out to a nice dinner on Valentine's Day. We've usually gone to Clemson basketball games for Valentine's Day, but we just didn't get that together this year. Since I didn't have to work the next day, we felt like giving the Valentine's Day date a try. We had crazy thoughts that we could make it to an early dinner on Valentine's Day since it was on a Sunday. We drove around town and stopped at about four restaurants before realizing that we would wait forever at a decent place. We finally broke down and headed to Red Robin for our romantic meal. It actually turned out better than if we had gone to a fancy Italian place. We so enjoyed it, and it was hilarious to go on a date without our daughter and be surrounded by families.