So busy, in fact, that I can't even remember Friday, though I'm pretty sure we just came home and tried to relax...as much as one can relax when Cars is playing in the living room and Thomas and the Magic Railroad is on in the master bedroom. If the TV watching continues in this pattern, I'll have mush for brains. Moving on....
I have been staying up way to late at night fiddling around the house, and I began cleaning out our disaster of a master closet last week, going through every single article of clothing both hanging and in the dresser and purging with wreckless abandon, and ended up finishing that part of the job on Saturday morning before Jack's nap time. There were piles all over my bedroom, of stuff to keep and put away, stuff to consign and stuff to trash, plus lots of actual trash. (Really, how does that accumulate in a closet? Tags, dry cleaning bags...and dozens of shoe boxes!) Jack went down for his nap sounding fine and woke up with a scratchy throat (that I instantly knew would soon be croup!) but we had a lunch date with my Grammy and Nikki, so I loaded the little man into the car, along with:
- 4 bags full of shoe boxes and assorted trash for the dumpster
- 1 large box full of accessories and household decor items for consignment
- 3 pairs of shoes (all I could stand to part with) for consignment
- 25+ Shirts to consign
- 10+ Skirts, shorts and pants to consign
After lunch, we hit up Target, where I promised Jack that if he was a sweet boy, I'd take him to ride the train. We picked up some things to send to Daddy, as well as some wooden tracks for Jack's growing interest in trains. (Lord, help me now before Thomas explodes all over my house. And let me just say, for posterity, that we are NOT decorating a bedroom with Thomas, ever. Nor are we throwing a Thomas birthday party until the child asks for it himself. I just can't handle it!) We also got new end of summer/early fall deck shoes for the boy, along with all the plates and napkins for his birthday party. In December. They were on sale for a price too good to pass up.
After Target, I drove down my favorite route through NB, a route that takes us down Fair Rd., a street with a very steep hill, where at the top Jack says "Ready?" ..."GO!" and then shrieks "wheeee!" all the way down. Makes me smile every single time. (He also does this all the way down the very hilly street on the way home from daycare.) We ended at Landa Park, where they just unveiled brand spanking new (awesome) playscapes. We started off with a ride on the mini-train around the park, as promised. Jack really loves the train, and now "choo-choos!" on a regular basis, even pumping his arm like he's pulling the cord. After the train ride, we hit up the new play area, which is beyond perfect. Landa Park is already one of the best parks I've ever been to (except for Central, of course!) and now it has a playscape designed for children ages 2-5, and totally separate from the huge looming playscapes that are usually present. (Landa still has that, too, for the bigger kids.) We played for over an hour, and I didn't have to chase him every second since it's designed for kids his size, which made it a relaxing experience for both of us, I think!
We had plans with friends for the evening, so when we had finished playing, we headed back out to the lake to meet our friends, Eli's parents to go out to a big family birthday party at the Twin Sisters Dance Hall. Jack and Eli are separated by only 1 month in age, and they get along perfectly. They're pretty well on par with their development, (and they very closely resemble one another!) and they have a ball every time we're together. We all loaded up and headed out, where we ate great barbecue and chased the boys all over the dance hall, until they discovered the giant inflatables outside, and then I couldn't get Jack out of it for hours. Luckily, there were tons of kids around to play! We kept the boys up way past their bedtimes, but sometimes it's just what you've gotta do! (As a sidenote, I ended up leaving my cell phone there (unheard of for me) and had to drive all the way back for it, so we ended up home after midnight.)
After a much too short night's sleep, Jack woke up Sunday morning with full blown croup. While he alternated between playing lazily on my bed and in the living room, I finished rehanging everything in the closet, and removed all the piles and everything else that didn't belong from our bedroom, then went to town vacumming and prettying up the bed (as I do everyday, when Jack isn't playing in it). Then I sighed a HUGE sigh of relief and the very next second I said to myself "bathroom's next!" I have a TON of stuff under my sink that I literally never touch. It needs to go. Evidently the deployment has me in nesting mode.
After nap, we loaded up for a badly needed trip to Sam's (the LAST one, I swear...I'm ordering diapers from Sam's online next time, and they're coming to my door.) and then the normal grocery shopping at WalMart. It amazes me how long it all takes. We were gone for hours, but we finally made it home and finished off our weekend with some Margherita Pizza for me (the little man has zero appetite) and a nice, long bath for the little man before bed. Even I went to bed at 9:30, exhausted from the busy-ness of the weekend.
Wonder what next weekend will hold?
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