For the first time in I don’t know how many weekends, no one at our house was sick.
We had a great weekend together and enjoyed the beautiful weather – Mexican food Friday night, the park (for Molly, Nana, and me) and golf (for Jim) on Saturday, dinner with friends Saturday night, errands and lunch on Sunday, and then Beverly and I had a Sweet Birdie’s Nest meeting. We wrapped up the weekend with family dinner at our favorite pizza joint, Hawthorne’s. I felt like we actually had a good mix of productiveness and fun. {Although for me, productive and fun usually go in the same sentence! I’m a dork like that.}
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The park in our neighborhood is situated right by the railroad tracks and this weekend, I have a whole new appreciation of that train. Usually, I’m annoyed because it’s so close to the house and it never fails to come when I have no time to spare. And then it’s really hard to turn left off our street. Or, I remember when I had a 45-minute commute home from work and I’d be 30 seconds from home but the lights would start flashing as I approached the tracks. However, watching Molly watch the train speed past was one of the coolest things I’ve witnessed. Mind you, we see the train every day. She can see it from her crib in the winter when there are no leaves on the tree and I’m worried we’re going to lose the blinds on her window because she pulls them back and chants, “Choo Choo” or “Twain Twain” while she’s supposed to be napping. And she sees it on a regular basis from the car. But she saw it up close for the first time on Saturday, and her mouth formed a big “o” and she pointed and gasped and then ran the length of the park like she was chasing the train. It was pure wonderment and I loved it.
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I know I’ve mentioned this before, but there’s a Dairy Queen less than a mile from our house. It’s one of the “old fashioned” ones where you stand in line outside and order from the window. My parents used to take us there as children and now I love that I get to take Molly. Well, usually I love it. I gave up sweets for Lent, but Jim and Molly didn’t. After pizza last night, Jim wanted ice cream, so I sat in the car while he and Molly shared a Blizzard. A Snickers Blizzard, which is my favorite. I have a feeling Lent is going to be a loooong 6 weeks this year!
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I’m wanting to make some small changes to our house; we’ve lived here five years this month and with the exception of a few new pieces of furniture and Molly’s room, everything has stayed the same. I really want to freshen things up and organize the house so it works for us. It’s so funny because Jim thinks we’ve made a lot of changes {which we have done a lot, mind you, it just depends on who you ask as to HOW much we’ve done!} and I think it looks the same as it did when we moved in, except for the paint colors! But anyway, my first priority {well, today’s first priority – it could change tomorrow!} is to paint the family room and update some of the accessories. I bought new pillows for the couch last week that I love and we tried out two paint colors. Jim likes the one we currently have on the wall, and while I do too, I think the room will seem bigger if we go lighter. And, as you can tell, we will obviously – eventually – do something, since we already started the job.
I’ve already decided which one we’ll use but could probably be easily swayed…want to vote? Let me know “left” or “right” in the comments. I’d love to see if your opinion matches mine!
