This was our third weekend home in a row and it has been SO nice! We were busy of course, but it is lovely to be in our own beds with everything at our finger tips.
Friday was swim lesson makeups, an hour in all! Matt took off early to make it there with the kids and I met them for dinner at the kids’ favorite restaurant, Sweet Tomatoes (meh). Then we ran errands, getting ready for Ben’s party (next weekend) and came home to some cleanup and baths
Saturday got off to a bang with SOCCER! The kids had overlapping games, so I hung out with Ben while Matt and Tabby went off to their games. Ben so far is a less than enthusiastic player. He is good at practice, but he doesn’t like the game when everyone “takes” the ball from him. He ends up wandering around on the field and breaking down in tears a lot. It didn’t help that while Ben’s team had 5 kids hanging around (4 play at a time) the other team had 7 to swap out and one was HUGE and was in nearly the whole time, scoring goal after goal. Kinda demoralizing, but oh well, that’s life.
Tabby and Matt meanwhile were on the other side of the greens playing their game. They were the stronger team in this situation and had a somewhat better time of it with 9 kids to swap in and out. Matt just tried to keep it fair and make sure everyone had a good time playing.
He is a good coach. 🙂
We then beat it back to the house for a quick lunch and Tabby and I took off for a birthday party. It was a great climbing party and she had a wonderful time scampering up and down the wall. She played some hoops with her friends too and at the end, they had brought in a guy from Coldstone to make the kids custom ice cream – a really fun idea!
Matt and Ben left just after us, bound for their own b’day party. He got to hang out in a bouncy castle with all of his buddies and celebrate a classmate’s b’day. Both kids were exhausted by the time we handed them over to my parents.
We had a nice date night with dinner and a little shopping but we were both tired and passed out early.
Today was some much-needed kid free time. They stayed all day with my mom while we got stuff done. I cleaned my desk. We ran errands. I went for a run. Matt went mountainbiking. I got some work done.
Mom and the kids came back in time for dinner. We had homemade pizza and salad. Then it was homework time, bedtime and finally a little work before the morn.