Weekend Recap

It’s the last week of September. I am actually not terribly sad to see this month come to an end because it’s been intense. I leave for another work trip today. It’s my 3rd week of traveling in a row which is TOO MUCH. I get a 2 week break after this thank goodness. This week’s trip is a team offsite in Chicago so a short flight and lower pressure since I won’t have any in-person client meetings. But there is often pressure to socialize and stay out late with the team but I have decided I will not be doing that. I’m secure in my position within the team and do not need to be the most fun person. 

We had a nice weekend. I took Friday off as I had a friend who was in town for work. I hadn’t seen her in person for almost 7 years when I visited her in St. Louis when I was pregnant with Paul! I picked her up at her hotel, we went out for Mexican, walked around the lake by my house, and then I took her to the airport. This is a friend I met through blogging (who sadly no longer blogs) but despite not seeing each other for many years, we picked right up where we left off and gabbed for hours straight. 

Since it was so beautiful, Phil took Paul to the driving range when he got home from school.

I picked up Taco and when we got home, I pulled out his Halloween costume since he has been asking to try it on. The boys are VERY excited for Halloween. They will probably wear their costumes a lot before the actual holiday. 

Taco will be Chase from Paw Patrol which is a hand-me-down from Paul

Paul is going as Pikachu

I woke up on my own at 6:45 on Saturday which was delightful! The boys slept past 7! It was a rainy morning so we hit up Starbucks for treats…

A donut for Paul (from the grocery store next door) and a raccoon-shaped cake pop for Taco. I hate how expensive the cake pops are but it evens out since Paul’s donut (from the grocery store next door) is cheap.

Is there something on my face? ;)

Then we went to the library where Paul lobbied to check out all of these books. He actually had a few more he wanted to check out but we settled on 5. He is very into graphic novels and will read them over and over again. He gets to read when he goes up to bed every night and I have to pry the book out of his hands! I let him read later on weekends since he can sleep in a bit. 

After lunch and quiet time, the rain had moved out so I took the boys to the park. They had a blast running around and pretended a pine tree was their house where they made croissants (pine cones) - I think they got this idea from Bluey.

They slept past 7 again on Sunday (although Taco yelled for me at 5:40 to cover him with blankets and I didn’t fall back asleep like he did). I laid in bed until 6:30, though, which felt good. 

Sunday was our usual church + Sunday school + afternoon swimming lessons. Phil and the boys watched the first half of the Vikings game before swimming lessons while I rested. The Vikings won and are 3-0 which is shocking to us as we thought this would be another ‘rebuilding season.’ The boys are both progressing well in swimming lessons although I imagine both will repeat their level, which is fine. I do sometimes wonder if we should enroll Paul in private lessons to see if he’d advance to a level of more comfort and then we could put him back in group. But I am seeing progress in him willingly putting his face in the water.

Paul working on the front crawl

Taco working on his front crawl

When we got home, Phil took them to the park so I could start making dinner. I made a marina with blitzed veggies hidden in it. I had mine on spaghetti squash and boys had theirs on pasta.

And then after Taco was in bed, we played Paul’s new favorite game, ‘bank.’ He is very good at counting out money and likes the made up withdrawals we come up with. We make up names and amounts we will withdraw. He’s very interested in money so I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!

How was your weekend?