Our weekend, our week

I hope you all had a nice Memorial Day weekend. We certainly did. It has become our tradition to have a metric ton of mulch delivered on the Friday of the long weekend. And so we spent much of our days doing yard work while the children played around us. Andrew and Lily were in a pretend play nirvana...honestly entertaining each other for hours at a time. Michael was just happy to be wandering around in the dirt, finding "pie-der wehs" (spider webs) and helping move the mulch around in the wheelbarrow.

We bought a bigg-ish inflatible pool that took all afternoon to inflate. The kids played in it so long it was well worth the chest pains.

We ate outside several nights. Kids sitting around the picnic table, still dripping from the pool, shoveling food in because they are so hungry. Dripping ice cream all over themselves and then rinsing in the pool. Going to bed tired and happy.

Michael is having some issues with sunscreen, I think. I bought a gigantic bottle of Target brand sunscreen last year that I never opened. So last week I cracked it open and slathered it on my kids several times a day. Fast forward to Michael scratching huge sores open on his back and chest. Ugh. Since stopping the sunscreen, he seems to be healing. Oh! And he has a huge plantar's wart on his second toe, which we are slowly and painfully removing with drops. Try keeping a band-aid on that bad boy as he plays for hours in the hose. Ugh.

This morning, we are back to normal. Except that Jeff just left for Texas. For the week.

Today Andrew has school and Michael has speech. Tonight Andrew has his very last baseball game, which will likely go late...and I won't have the option of leaving early to get the littles to bed. Oh! And it is supposed to be 90 degrees and humid or something. Good times.

Tomorrow we are hoping to go downtown to a park while Andrew is at school. He has chess and it will likely be pizza night. A pretty low-key day.

Thursday, we have a make-up gym class in the morning and shopping and planning and packing and cleaning the house will be happening for our weekend trip. I also need to go to the bike shop to pick up our bikes from being tuned up. I've never used the bike rack before. Should be interesting.

Friday, Jeff will arrive home around noon. I'll drop Shadow off at her foster family and pick up Andrew a bit early from school so we can start our drive to the state park where we'll meet up with Jeff's folks. We will have a fantastic weekend of boating, hiking, and hanging out with family.

What's your week look like?