The Weekend in Review
Our weekend turned into another busy one. On Saturday we had 2 Soccer games in the morning. It seems like we spent a good hour searching for first Kayla's jersey and then Rilyn's. We had told them last week that whatever was not picked up in their rooms would go in a bag--maybe to never be seen again. They did not care and neither did we, so we had Alyssa pick up all the excess clutter and put it in a trash bag. We told Kayla she could do the same for Alyssa's room if it wasn't picked up.
Well, the bag of miscellaneous clutter ended up out in the garage. We had long since forgotten about it and so had the girls, obviously! After praying about where the jersey's might be, I had the thought to check the bag. And after looking, yep, it was there!! Our feelings of celebrations were short-lived when each of their teams lost their games, and worse, they had to now come home and clean what they hadn't last week. They actually had to sort through the bag of clutter and put it away. Can we say weeping and wailing and knashing of teeth?
Laren spent most of the day working on the yard again. Now he has torn out even more of our fence and is digging a ditch to place a plastic pipe to funnel the water from our patio out of the backyard that slopes down our property line towards the street. It feels like this endless project will never end.
Here is what we have left to do: Finish digging the ditch, put the pipe in, bury the pipe, put fence posts back in, put fence panels back up, move landscape rock back into place, finish digging (with shovel) in the backyard by the utilities, bury electrical line deeper (don't know how we will accomplish that without getting electricuted!), dig trenches in back for sprinkler system, install sprinkler system in back.
Repair sprinkler system in front, mix topsoil in both front and back, sod or plant grass seed. AND...if we get that far we might just take a break before we put in a block retaining wall by our back fence and plant trees, shrubs, flowers, etc...
Although, it is killing me to not have a place to plant flowers yet. But I do plan on planting some in my pots in just a couple more weeks after I can be assured it will not freeze for the season. And I did buy a lilac bush at Costco which I desperately want planted but Laren stuck it in the garage and there it sits. I'm worried it is going to die, if it hasn't already, before we get a place good enough to plant it!!
Sunday we went to church. I taught the lesson and my team teacher didn't come again. She was feeling under the weather. All 8 Sunbeams were there. Who knew that 8 three year olds could be so well-behaved? Not me. They were excellent yesterday!! I'm hoping for some repeats of that for sure!
Then yesterday evening we had some friends over for dessert. They have 3 girls, each just one year older than each of my 3 girls. So it was great fun for them. Tyler tagged along with Rilyn and Sydney, and Kyle kind of hung by himself at the computer. He was bummed they had no boys for him to play with. We had a great visit, we will definitely do that again.
This morning it has been a slow start. Because of my late nights on the weekend, I was unable to fall asleep before about 12:30am last night. So then of course I didn't want to get up this morning. We were nearly late getting the kids to school again, this time because Kayla was working on some last minute poster for her report on bears this morning.
After getting Rilyn to preschool it was such a nice morning that Tyler and I set out on a Monday morning jog. Well, I didn't realize that the baby jogger had a flat tire until we were heading down our street. I thought about turning back but decided against it because I knew if I did that might be the end of my momentum. So I kept going, wishing most of the way I hadn't!
It was really hard to steer and I went a route that took us up a slight incline and the breeze was blowing against us too. I'm not sure how far we went, but I was unusually winded at the onset. I huffed and puffed the whole way and we only lasted 15 minutes. It's not a whole lot but I keep telling myself it's better than nothing!
I picked up my phone to make a phone call and my phone is down, darned Vonage! So I decided before I would try to fix it I must check my emails to see if I had any messages. And then of course once I got on to check my emails, I had to come over and blog a little!! (Anyone else get sucked into blogging like that?)
So, here's to a good week **:00:**
4 comments:
Great idea on the clutter. I may have to try that sometime. Sounds like you guys are getting a lot done on the yard. What a lot of work that must be. I am sucked into blogging ALL the time. Most often I try and shut down the computer to try and stay away so I can get other stuff done.
Way to go on the jogging. I so can't run with my jogger I am out of breath within minutes unless it is down hill.
I don't know what it is with clutter and kids this weekend!
And today... I've cleaned a little, checked my e-mail, cleaned a little, checked my e-mail. I need to HIDE my computer from myself... perhaps in the garage? LOL
You are right, even 15 minutes is better than nothing, plus uphill, in the wind, with a stroller! Probably counts for 30!
Wow, your yard sounds like...just hard labor!
I'm in the blogging black hole as we speak, I really should go rotate the laundry just so something is working around here!
I can totally relate to this post. We built our home three years ago and put in our own yard. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Until we got started working in the rock-hard soil. Bottom line, it has been a massive project and nightmare. If we ever build new again, we will budget to have someone do the landscaping for us.
Here's for hoping your experience is much better than ours. :-)
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