Minutae from the weekend
Yesterday was a busy day. DD2 went to her music class with dh bright and early and then shortly after they got home, we all went off to our monthly religious gathering. It was an interesting service this month focusing on breathing in the first half. I found myself thinking how much I hated it and it was stupid and then after a little while more I realized that I don't breath enough! OMG. We need to breath to live. How can I not be breathing enough? I was getting dizzy from all the oxygen. Crazy. So, that got over around 1:30. We headed off to the chair store to look for chairs. We got there around 2 and I spent half an hour in the car while DD2 got her requisite snooze. I got to listen to The Splendid Table which was quite fun. Ever wonder what drink to have with your food? Ever heard of Carolina Gold Rice? Anyhow, I took DD2 into the store around 2:30. I sent them all out of the store at some point so I could try out some of the chairs without having anyone tug on me, or sit on me, or just drive me to the point of distraction and I thought a couple chairs were worth dwelling on, so I brought them all back in. Then we did a little more of that type of juggling and finally, in the end, we did manage to buy two chairs. They are the same chair except we are getting one upholstered and one not. Shew. That took us 3 hours. Then we came home and collapsed ate dinner.
Today DH took DD1 to the Container Store and I put DD2 down for a nap. I cleaned up the kitchen while they were gone and listened to more of Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel, my new literary crush. I think I've dealt with three loads of laundry this weekend, but maybe it was only two. This afternoon we took the girls to the Family Dance and it was great. DD2 actually got to fake a couple dances:) The music is always good and the bass player came down and let the kids play his bass for a little while. DD2 was in heaven. Her two passions are music and animals:) DH made lamb shank osso buco for lunch, so dinner was leftovers and fairly easy. And both girls were asleep by 8:30. I even had a really nice conversation with friends of ours we don't see often. Sadly, I did not get my usual phone time in with any of my family members. I guess we were all just out of synch today.
On Friday I took the girls to a nature center and we had so much fun there, I'm doing it again this Friday. Happily I'll only have one to look after as DD1 has a playdate. It will be good though.
So, it feels like a pretty good weekend although I am feeling like I would have liked to have done more (like, it's time to sort through the clothes again and get out new ones for DD2 who seems to have grown all of a sudden. Ack!)
Hope everyone had a fun weekend. I know some of you did:)
And also, I managed on Friday to do Thai grilled chicken. Oh yummy, was that ever good. Ok, so it was 34 degrees when I grilling. So what? The chicken was perfect and it made me happy:)
Today DH took DD1 to the Container Store and I put DD2 down for a nap. I cleaned up the kitchen while they were gone and listened to more of Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel, my new literary crush. I think I've dealt with three loads of laundry this weekend, but maybe it was only two. This afternoon we took the girls to the Family Dance and it was great. DD2 actually got to fake a couple dances:) The music is always good and the bass player came down and let the kids play his bass for a little while. DD2 was in heaven. Her two passions are music and animals:) DH made lamb shank osso buco for lunch, so dinner was leftovers and fairly easy. And both girls were asleep by 8:30. I even had a really nice conversation with friends of ours we don't see often. Sadly, I did not get my usual phone time in with any of my family members. I guess we were all just out of synch today.
On Friday I took the girls to a nature center and we had so much fun there, I'm doing it again this Friday. Happily I'll only have one to look after as DD1 has a playdate. It will be good though.
So, it feels like a pretty good weekend although I am feeling like I would have liked to have done more (like, it's time to sort through the clothes again and get out new ones for DD2 who seems to have grown all of a sudden. Ack!)
Hope everyone had a fun weekend. I know some of you did:)
And also, I managed on Friday to do Thai grilled chicken. Oh yummy, was that ever good. Ok, so it was 34 degrees when I grilling. So what? The chicken was perfect and it made me happy:)