Erin and Albert…

Knowing what is important: Elia and Albert had a spontaneous lunch date yesterday after staying home for the plumbers and stair people. Albert asked if she wanted to go to a fancy restaurant, she said that she wanted me to wear a bow tie (which she means a tie) like hers. So we dressed up and went to a fancy restaurant for lunch. where she had chicken fingers with a fruit salad that had a blood orange. Albert had blackened catfish and we shared a side of fries. Elia later told Erin that she was Hermione and Albert was Ron (because they are together) and that we wore the same red tie, black top and white shirt. Of course now Albert owes Curie her own date.

Knowing what is important part 2: The next day, Albert was working from home and needed to take the car in to get an oil change. Realizing it was late in the day, he decided to pick up Curie early and called EMA. When he arrived, Curie bounded forward and the instructor saying that Curie was ready for her date. Albert suddenly realized that though he hadn’t planned for this to be Curie’s date, he needed to make the time special for her because the date with Elia obviously was on her mind. The problem was that there were no fancy restaurants near the car dealership. Albert told Curie they could either go to the buffet ( Curie loves a buffet) for a snack(we had dinner plans with Julie), or because it was snowing, they could get a snack at the vending machines but they could spend the time watching and drawing with each other. Curie opted for vending machines and drawing initially, but when they arrived, she was hungry so wanted to go to the buffet even though it was snowing pretty hard.  They trudged through the snow hand in hand and went to the buffet joking all the time that it was a big snack, or dinner 1 before dinner 2. Curie did not mind that it was not a fancy restaurant, all she cared about was equal time with parents and spending time with Albert; that is the lesson here.