A special date

I told Andy that I felt kind of like George Bailey at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life," last week when we got to go out on a date for his birthday. Our friends Drea & Luke watched the kids for us AND gave us a Groupon to a nice restaurant in West Hollywood, The Foundry on Melrose. (Btw, the food was AWESOME! We agreed, the best we've had in L.A. so far, not that we've been out a whole lot though.) Then one of Andy's classmates called ahead to the restaurant to give us a bottle of wine. We chatted for hours and enjoyed the food and drink - the perfect celebration of his 31 years. It was such a blessing and a needed respite while we are plugging away, both working so hard in different ways toward the same goal. We felt so refreshed and revived to finish out these last couple of weeks before his final next Thursday. I'm still drawing on that time to get us through until we have another break next weekend through Christmas and New Years. Thank you to our friends who made it possible. :)