Weekend Recap

A good weekend was had all around, I believe, though really we didn't do much. On Friday, Miss Lara was home with the dread Pink Eye, so we hung out all day together! Fun except for the paranoia that comes with being near a person with pink eye...it just makes you want to touch your eyes all the more. Like when someone near you yawns. Except grosser and more germy. Regardless, Lara helped me with chores and caused me to reminisce the whole day on how fun it used to be to help my mom or dad with chores before they got tedious and annoying. Most likely for the benefit of my parents and nobody else, I will list some of the great fun we had (I wish we had pictures! Sorry folks, I'm new at this...plus it's not my camera that I use so I limit myself):

1. We made muffins together. Reminded me of learning to stir pancake batter at around the same age as Lara, and of course she got to help spoon the batter into muffin cups, which was really hard to watch and very messy. I was pretty glad that she tired of this quickly and went to go hang out with her toys until I was finished.

2. We went grocery shopping together. Still skinny enough to fit in the baby seat at the top of a shopping cart, she designated herself as that grocery-into-the-cart-putter...or thrower, as it steadily declined. Lara is excellent at picking out all the stuff we don't need. I now understand all of the moms who would come through my checkout line at TJ's looking frazzled and vowing never to go grocery shopping with their kids again. Hahaha. We did get a few things per her suggestions that weren't such a bad idea, like chocolate cookie mix and green frosting from the clearance rack, which are going to make excellent St. Patty's day treats.

3. We did laundry together. This brought back vivid memories of doing laundry with my Dad in our much larger Maryland laundry room. The washer and dryer were about 10 feet apart, making a great game out of successfully transferring wet clothes into the dryer without dropping every pair of socks. I also helped by separating the dirty clothes by color. It brought me back when Lara burst into squeals and giggles over touching a dirty sock...as if the whole hamper of clothes wasn't already...dirty laundry. Silly kid. :-)

So that was Friday. Lara and Mary bonding time. And bond we did. On Saturday, Matthew and I had a bit of a day date to Jackson because Nanny wanted to play with her grandbabies all day. We walked around that Mecca of wondrous things, Target, looking at baby clothes and kitchen supplies and stationary (how awesome is it that I'm marrying somebody who loves window shopping for all the same things as me?! So. Completely. Awesome.) and also went to that other Mecca of Guy Things, Harbor Freight Tools, picking up some pretty Gweat deals on car stuff for the Datsun. That may have been all we did, but BOY did we ever kill an afternoon. We accidentally skipped a meal and arrived back at Matt's house right before Nanny came to drop off the kids.

Then came Sunday! The clocks changed, we were all tired, I had lost my voice...it was just a sluggish kind of morning. But to church we did go! Then Sarah came to pick up the kids, and Matthew got this crazy idea in his head that he wanted to clean the house. Well, surely that wasn't what to do on the day of rest (according to me the anti-tidier), so instead we watched Top Gear for awhile. Sitting on the couch for an hour had the obvious desired demotivating effect...so after that was over, we decided to go on a bike ride! And it was super, duper fun. I told Matt I needed some biker chick gear if he wanted to make a routine out of these Sunday evening rides now that the weather is warmer.

I'm banking on this. :D

Or this!

Definitely some of these...

Though my helmet is red and black, so the pink might clash just a bit. Hurumph.

And that was our eventful weekend! Wonderful times had by all, as mentioned before. And now, I have some serious, serious laundry and general weekend catchup to play around the house. It's been real!

See Y'all!

TFMM