Whew! What an incredibly busy weekend we had! I feel like I need a weekend to get over the weekend...do you ever feel like that too?
Our weekend was wonderful albeit not completely what we had hoped for.
Friday we went to our produce co-op, visited the library, and went to a Children's Museum that we are members at. The kids love playing there so it is a nice way to just set them loose to have some fun. We also were able to get some banking done. By banking I mean, we are finally opening the kids college funds (which I swear I thought we did ages ago!), and visited with our travel agent regarding our Disney Trip!!!! Nick was also able to pick up his car FINALLY! Praise the Lord I am so happy that we get to be a two-car family. If it turned out that we had to be a one-car family I was going to try to bear it with grace, but oh-my-goodness I am so happy we don't have to do that! When we got home I was making split-pea soup with ham and COMPLETELY burnt the thing. We are still unsure what in the world I did to it. Poor little soup. It wasn't just kind of burnt it was burnt. I'm talking we had to get out of the house, people were gagging, kind of burnt. Luckily Nick's parents had invited us to a fish fry which we had previously turned down, so we called them and accepted the offer. When we got home we watched the very first Scooby Doo cartoons on a movie we got from the library. "Like, yikes!" the kids loved them! Cal has begged to watch them again since.
Saturday was my Mom's Birthday! She had plans so we didn't get to see her but we called and all did the yelling and screaming into the phone! It was fun. After that we went out and did some shopping. I love shopping with the kiddos. They are so fun. When we got home we had our yard day although it was a lot colder than we had planned. Nick and I did get out potting shed completely cleared out. I am ashamed to have to admit that that was the first time we've done that since we bought the house. There was a lot of "what in the world is that???" asking about items we found. We also found things like car jacks and things that we apparently inherited with the house that Nick will be able to use. We were able to get it organized enough that we now have room to store more things more efficiently. Score! On top of the organization we got a lot of brush picked up and got the patio swept and ready to use! It was so lovely to be able to go outside and say hello to the outside again! As you can see from the picture above we said "hello" to a new Easter Bunny when we got out our Spring/Easter bin to start decorating. The kids love decorating! Emma loves going through everything so carefully, exclaiming how everything is a treasure. She is our treasure, that one. And Cal makes a cute Easter Bunny.
Sunday we were going to go to the Art Museum but decided against it. With gas and eating we were going to be paying about $300.00 to be at an art museum for about three hours. We decided it was an investment that we didn't need to make right now. With the time change we woke up too late to go to church, so we decided to paint. Ta-da! Here is our dining room. I am so impressed with Nick. He tackled the painting and got two coats on and the room put back together in a day. Wowwie! The Dining Room was the last room downstairs that was this ugly yellowy-cream color that all of the rooms were when we moved in.
We chose the blue because it matches my China Pattern...isn't it beautiful?
It also matches my every day dishes that we got as a wedding gift from Nick's parents. Aren't they just as sweet as can be? The pattern is "Melissa" by Pfaltzgraff.
After painting all day Nick was tired. Although I didn't paing, I was able to get a TON of deep cleaning done which was nice.
And that was our weekend. It feels like it was longer than it really was. And you should know that we count Fridays as a weekend because for the most part we don't homeschool on Fridays. Emma has Girl Scouts every other Friday so when she had it, it was really messing up our homeschooling. So I made the lengths that we do everything longer so we can get the same amount of school done in four days instead of five. When she doesn't have Girl Scouts it just means we have a day that we don't have to do anything, which is a lot of fun!
I hope ya'll had a great weekend as well. Have a wonderful Monday!
