This weekend has been hectic, and I am really grateful we spent Memorial Day weekend relaxing and enjoying life. I had originally planned to spend the long weekend taking care of a number of household projects that I haven't been able to get to in recent months. However, the forecast was for a great deal of rain all weekend, and we decided to take advantage of nice weather outdoors while we could before we were forced to head indoors.
UNCW is currently operating under summer hours where we have a condensed work week and the university closes at lunchtime on Friday. It's a fantastic schedule, and last weekend I was able to take advantage of it and leave early enough that I was able to pick up the kids from the bus after school. Shortly after everyone got home, we headed out to Lewis Farms where we managed to pick about eight pounds of fresh strawberries and blueberries. Most days that week had included both heavy rain and bright sunshine and although that made for slightly flooded fields, it also made for amazing berries. As we picked, Boss Lady was clearly in charge of the group.
Friday night we took the kids to their first "grown up" party. It was an engagement party for a friend from work, and I had no idea how it would go. I filled my purse with card games for the kids to play and I filled their ears with promises that we would not stay that long. I was apparently concerned for no reason, because it turns out all the kids need for a good time is "Alexa" and cupcakes. They ended up having a great time and making many new friends, all who are in their 40s and 50s, by sharing their love and knowledge of 80s music.
Nati has been bugging me to take her to the main library downtown. I am pretty sure she only wanted to go there to play with the toys in the children's area, but who am I to turn down a trip to a library? We headed there on Saturday morning, and we began our time there by exploring the small outdoor garden. It includes several stations where the kids can play music as well as a large outdoor checkers/chess set, and the kids enjoyed playing out there.
Oh, library humor!
Natalia did have fun playing inside the library, including putting together these flowers that even I would struggle to kill.
After the library, we ran errands and ate lunch. Saturday afternoon it was still nice, so we headed outside to play. Although they had no use for sidewalk chalk when they were itty bitties, the kids are now obsessed with it. We are the proud owners of a Crayola box of sidewalk chalk with 48 colors (there is even black chalk!), and the kids put it to good use.
Even after all these years, Jewel loves Abby Cadabby.
Saturday evening included grilled salmon and a fire in the fire pit in the back yard.
I love that these guys are content to just sit and read by the fire.
It was amazingly still nice on Sunday, and we ended up spending all afternoon swimming with friends at their pool party.
The rain finally arrived on Sunday night, and when it showed up, it did not mess around. It continued all day Monday, and at one point it was coming down so hard the kids stood on the porch and watched our neighbor's white van (waaay down the street. I wasn't leaving the porch in the rain) get covered up to its bumper in water. Thankfully, our neighborhood drains extremely well, and the street was clear again within an hour of the rain slowing down.
Last weekend was so enjoyable and a great reminder that life is too short not to make time to kick back and just enjoy time with family and friends.
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