Full Weekend
There are those weekends when I feel that every blessed second was wasted, every opportunity for special family moments missed. This was not one of those weekends! We filled this one up. Saturday I made the meal plan, grocery shopped, made some yellow cupcakes and let the boys decorate them with spider legs and candy eyes that I found in our Halloween decorations bin. Then I cleaned out three closets and all the bathroom drawers, made some food, ran to Target to buy a duvet cover, and then got dolled up and went to a street party. (Friends live on a street that closes off the whole block one night a year, and the homeowners pitch in for a beer truck and a band, and string twinkle lights outside and set out tables and chairs. It’s very nice.)
Today we packed up lunches and snacks and piled the kids in the car for a drive over to Louisiana for work stuff. They spent a lot of time in the car, but we took a detour to a very packed, very hot pumpkin patch. The sun was brutal, and it was very dusty, which is par for the course in October down here. But the boys had a great time, leaping on bales of hay, riding John Deere style trikes in a large penned area, bouncing on a trampoline “pillow”, see-sawing, going down slides, and decorating pumpkins. They all slept on the way home, and I did too. I baked a frozen pizza and they sat, scrubbed up fresh out of the shower, and munched pepperoni slices while watching Halloween cartoons. We polished off a couple of spider cupcakes, and then Jack read the first chapter of “Bunnicula” to Liam and me.
Now they’re asleep, and I’m on my way. Good weekend.
One Comment
CakiArwen23
Perfection.