Today, Mario and I celebrated 21 Valentine's Days together. We planned to go out to lunch or dinner but I had picked up some filet mignon on clearance a couple weeks ago, so I thought that would make a great dinner for Valentine's Day. Eric found me a great recipe for a topping for the steak. It was yummy. I don't know if I have ever bought real filet mignon before. Erin came home after shopping with a friend and I heated up the leftovers for her. She asked why we don't always have that kind of steak. I told her that when she's old enough to date, she should ask her date to take her out for filet mignon and see what he says as a 16 year-old boy working a minimum wage job.
Mario took the three younger kids to play basketball at the church this morning. Eric said he wanted to go shopping with me instead. Our first stop was the fabric store. He used my iphone to distract him from being in such a miserable place. He spent several minutes following me around the aisles with his head planted downward on the phone. But then he disappeared and I kept shopping. A few minutes later, I heard him talking to someone. I figured it must be someone from school and he must be embarrassed to be in a fabric store. I went to find him. Turns out, he was following a lady through aisles, thinking it was me he was following. She finally told him, I think you have mistaken me for your mom. Talk about embarrassing. I had a good laugh the rest of the day about it.
That wasn't Eric's only embarrassing moment and I don't think I blogged this before. Erin had a summer job mowing the neighbor's lawn but she didn't know how to use the edger. So I sent Eric out to help her. He went and weed whacked the wrong neighbors yard while they sat on the front porch and watched. He wasn't happy with me when he found out it was the wrong house. He said I pointed to the wrong neighbors house when I was up in his room asking him. My problem is unless I'm looking out a window, I don't know my directions. I went over and explained to the neighbors why Eric had just maintained their yard.
Back to today, after shopping for fabric, Eric and I headed for the commissary. He was super excited to pick out food since he thinks I never buy anything good. Problem is that I do buy good stuff but it gets eaten within a couple days. So it was funny today when we brought home all the groceries and the other three kids and Mario started digging into all the groceries. Eric was panicking because they were doing exactly what I always complain about each time. It's funny (and sad) to see your kids turn into you.
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