Last night Ken and I took some special alone together time and watched a download of Going Postal. It was on tv in the UK in March and was based on the book by the same name by Terry Pratchett. I LOVE the Discworld series and these made for tv movies are AMAZING. I totally recommend Hogfather and The Colour of Magic. Sometimes it is worth being tired to just have that time together.
The weekend has given way and ended on all positive notes. I am so happy to have spent it with friends. The kids were overjoyed to not only have some little friends to play with but the attention of multiple adults. I got out with friends and had a LEISURELY lunch even with Echo in tow! With the trailer in the back we are almost ready to start emptying out the house a little which will make it WAY easier to finish packing what is left.
We spent our morning playing with the games that have yet to be packed. Trinity is sure that EVERYONE wins all the time… but she gets to decide who does each turn.
Playing the gobble game
The boys spent some time with their craft bucket. No one was really focused today, the wind has finally died down somewhat and the sun is shining so sitting down and doing work work was not a huge priority. Of course crafts are very important too!!! This also gave me the opportunity to have them go through the bucket and weed out the mess and garbage.
Completed crafts
Echo has been hard at work perfecting her sitting technique. She has become VERY interested in toys and such… of course always wanting the ones her brother’s have and she shouldn’t. Now if I could just get her to crawl forwards, so far she only goes backwards when she is VERY angry.
Playing on her blanket
We are all feeling the frustration of living with boxes and mess… I am hoping taking some time to move stuff out of here will make a difference. We have a whole list of baking to do tonight, a friend of Karyn’s has some items they no longer want and are willing to do an exchange – we come and get them and bring cookies. Definitely a done deal! So tonight it is chocolate, banana and applesauce cookies and making our sugar cookie dough. I think we are also going to send a loaf of banana bread and of course some butter icing for them to use when they eat the sugar cookies. Everything can be frozen so they don’t have to eat them all at once!
I did get in some more sewing (after all I WAS watching tv last night which I cannot do without something ELSE also occupying my time). I am rather sure at this point you can at least guess what the animal is!
Soooo cute
There is something to look forward to this week as well – on Wednesday I get to go with Chris (she) and Mae (the bridesmaid) and see the first dress fitting! I am so excited… Echo is going to come with as well. Then on Friday it is looking like our trip to visit the venue again is on. Echo in tow. It will be nice to not only get out of the house and away from the boxes but to focus on such an exciting and happy event. End of August!
Now to get to work with that baking!
One more, I could not resist