Full Weekend!

It’s been a full weekend. Time seems to fly by so much quicker on Saturday – the only day of the week that we’re “off”.

Mike took me out to lunch at Schlotsky’s. This is the first time we’ve gone out alone all month. Well….we did have Stacia with us. The other times we’ve tried to go out we’ve ended up taking 3 - 5 children with us. {grin} We enjoyed our lunch - mostly being able to catch up on the various events we are involved with.

This was the first Saturday this month that we’ve not gone geocaching. It was very windy. During lunch we decided to go check Academy to see if they had a backpack I could carry Stacia in. We have one…but its 20 years old and technology has changed. It doesn’t feel very “safe”. They had no backpacks but we were able to check local prices for GPS units. Mike also finally talked me into trying a new pair of shoes that he’s heard are good for folks with high arches. I still have good and bad days with my feet. These are Saucony brand. I’m not sure they feel much different but my trusty New Balance were over 8 years old and splitting at the seams. We laughed that I needed a smaller size shoe and that the best fitting ones were ½ the price of the other choice.

We left Academy and ventured to Toys R Us. They are going out of business. I hate it when businesses leave an area. They have things marked down and so we checked. THEY had a great back pack which Mike purchased for Stacia and me. I shared my parking lot revelations below. {G}

Saturday night ended with all of us walking to a park. The older boys (and Arielle off and on) played HORSE at the basketball court, the younger ones enjoyed the swings and merry-go-round and I (with Stacia on my back) walked about a mile around and around the playground. It works. We came home and I began the cooking saga…what to take to potlucks the next day. I settled for some brownies and some Chocolate-Almond Gooey Butter cake.

Sunday was “FIFTH SUNDAY”. This means that we have two pot-lucks to attend and Mike preaches in all three services. The last few months the kids and I stayed for services and the second pot luck as well. This Sunday the kids were so tired, we’d had a hard week with one of the children behavior wise and were starting a new unit in school today. I asked Mike if I could just go home and work on lesson plans and take the kids out for some fun. He agreed. I feel badly about it now. I don’t think I planned it out well. I SHOULD have sent the kids home and stayed for the services with Mike and Stacia…but yesterday I was tired and in pain and wanted to come home to my bed. (I never made it to the bed anyway). {G}

That’s the weekend. Now on with the week!