since the week days are already so full, i try to cram as much as i possibly can into my weekends.
christopher tells me to just let go of some of things, and on occasion, i will.
i will dedicate an entire day for the 'family day' and just play/relax with the boys,
BUT i can't do that every weekend or i'll pay for it the next week and be up till midnight every night.
if only i were wealthy and could hire a personal assistant, a maid, etc.
they could do all the these extra things to free up more time.
{i imagine this is the wish of every mother of young children}
below is a synopsis of this past weekend:
saturday -
- up at 6:30am, fed and dressed boys
- ran 3 miles with jen (in training for a half marathon)
- drove by a garage sale
- stopped b/c jen saw a couch she wanted
- drove to bank to get $ to pay for couch
- back to garage sale, dropped $ off with a promise we'd be back for it the same day with a truck to pick it up
- trip to bruegger's bagels
- brunch with pb pals
- borrowed a truck to move couch to jen's apt
- jen and i moved the couches (0ld and new) ourselves!
- dropped off truck - went home (exhausted) and showered
- maddy and her girlfriend came over to babysit boys and spend the pm
- c and i went on a date (dinner and play)
- home at 11pm
- quick chat with maddy and amber to get update on the boys
- bed by 11:30 pm
Sunday
- up at 6:30am
- started scout's birthday thank yous
- ran 7 miles with jen
- drove directly to target (smelly and sweaty) to pick up slipcover and accessories for her apt
- home to shower
- drove to the hilton with maddy and amber to meet the boys to hang by pool
- swam with the boys and visited with family (grandpa john &sheila are in town)
- watched a movie with maddy while boys napped (my only downtime all day)
- laundry
- made dinner
- checked work email
- got boys fed, bathed, read stories to and put down for bed
- finished thank you cards
- 15 min blog post/checked personal email
- bed by 11:00pm
with all this, i still had more to do.
this is what i did not get done this weekend that i meant to:
drop off a breast pump to my girlfriend, return library books, pick up dry cleaning, shoes from repair shop, finn fitted for tux, more grocery shopping, and clean the house. cleaning is the lowest on my priority list. when i was sitting at the pool chatting with the teenage girls today, they mentioned their summer and some are BORED.
i can't remember the last time i used that word in my vocabulary - maybe as a teenager?
oh to be 'bored' again - those are the days. they realize how nice they have it.
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| madison gerber, her friend amber and jordan gerber |
