Weekend Redemption

So, after a less-than-stellar Mother's Day weekend, this past weekend was a breath of fresh air. Granted, as is par for the course in this house, Garrett passed his little illness on to William (without completely getting over it himself), so we weren't exactly feeling 100%, but we made the best of it anyway (and truthfully--after a miserable Thursday and Friday, William was feeling exponentially better on Saturday, so it was almost like he was healthy. Minus all his random coughing fits). Since both boys were still feeling a little under the weather (and decided to grace us with extra-early wake-up calls), we took it easy Saturday morning and bummed around the house until it was (finally!) nap time. That was my cue to get out of the house (for the first time in almost two days!) to pick up a few things for the graduation open houses we had that afternoon (nothing like waiting until the last minute). After naps, we headed to Harrisburg to congratulate some of the soccer players I used to coach and a former neighbor on their successful completion of high school. We socialized for a little bit, ate some food (and plenty of desserts!), then rounded up the boys before they got too antsy to make a quick stop at the store to look for summer sandals and a new swimsuit for William (spoiler--we ended up not finding what we were looking for, so I guess that means we'll have to go shopping again!). We made it home in time for dinner round two, baths, and bedtime, followed immediately by Darrell and me crashing on the couch and crossing our fingers for a good night's sleep for both boys.

Although the boys didn't exactly sleep through the night, they did sleep in until 7:30 on Sunday, so I'll still count that as a win. While Darrell made some pancakes, I got the stuff ready for the rest of the (super busy) day, and then headed out on a quick run before church. My parents took the boys home with them after church (freedom!!) so Darrell and I could spend some time at my sister's house answering a million baby related questions (just over a month to her due date and she's definitely feeling anxious!) and then go to a performance of Mary Poppins put on by the Sioux Empire Community Theater (if you are local there are still four more performances to catch this weekend and it was really really good!). And as if our Sunday hadn't been busy enough, it was also the home opener for my brother's amateur baseball team, so we picked up some beer (baseball necessity, in my opinion) and headed out to the game (where we met back up with my parents and the boys). William was actually pretty interested in watching the game--and if he wasn't watching he was usually playing with his baseball stuff--but Garrett could not have cared less. Thankfully, there was a mud puddle and a puppy dog, so he was in heaven.

We were all pretty exhausted when we got home (in fact, the boys were so exhausted that they didn't sleep well at all--funny how that works), and since we had been gone almost all day was that there wasn't much to clean up, so Darrell and I rounded out our weekend with some lounging around on the couch watching NCIS.

 

The biggest "failure" from the weekend was the fact that we didn't get the garden planted like we had wanted to--although not by any fault of our own. Thanks to freezing temperatures Friday night and near-freezing Saturday night, we didn't exactly think it was the best time to get our seeds in the soil. We're hoping to get that done this week--or next weekend at the latest!