It Might Have Been Mother's Day Weekend If...

You decided it was a terrible good idea to run a 5k

You spent the majority of the day on Saturday playing tag-team parenting with your husband because you both had multiple places to be.

You spent Saturday night baking your own Mother's Day desserts

Your one-year-old was sick and absolutely refused to sleep for longer than two hours at a time

Your children You got chocolate chip pancakes with sprinkles for breakfast

Your three-year-old refused to take a nap

Your husband decided to give you a break and take the boys for a bike ride

You had carry-out Olive Garden for dinner with your whole fan damily--but had to spend the majority of the evening wrangling two uncooperative boys

Your boys went to bed over an hour past their bedtimes and even though you just wanted to crash yourself you had fun stuff like menu planning to do



Sounds awesome, right? It really wasn't quite as bad as I'm making it sound (although if I'm being honest it definitely could have been a lot better). We finished the 5k just under our goal (30 minutes), so I suppose that could be considered a success. I willingly made the desserts (and got to try out two new recipes!), so I was actually pretty happy about that part (minus the whole miscalculating an ingredient and having to send Darrell to the store at the last minute). Darrell was super helpful getting up in the middle of the night with Garrett all weekend, so at least we were both feeling a lot little sleep deprived. And really, he was super helpful about everything with the boys all weekend--even though they were so out of sorts that it was pretty much impossible for one person to wrangle them, he did everything he could and even did things like make sure I at least got to eat my dinner while it was warm (which I'm sure was not the case with his dinner by the time he got back to the table).
The good news is that they both seem to be in much better moods, which I suppose I would prefer anyway since I don't have Darrell home to help me. And hey--at least I don't have to worry about doing anything too extravagant for Father's Day to top my Mother's Day!