A Good Weekend

We had a good weekend. It’s important to remember them when they happen. Especially these days.

FRIDAY

Friday my kids got home from school and had two hours before the normal 4pm video game start time. My daughter straightened her room, cleaned the bathroom and emptied the dishwasher to start early. My son cleaned up his room and vacuumed it, then read an extra book to start early. It felt like we were getting ahead of the curve!

That evening my daughter went to her friend’s house to watch a movie in the backyard and I had my son’s friend and his sister over for a movie in our garage (with the door open). It rarely works out for my son’s friend (and his younger sister, who I have over to entice the parents) to come over anymore because they are so busy with family and other things, so it was awesome he got a “friend movie night” too” I ordered pizza and poured Fanta. They had a great time.

SATURDAY

Saturday my kids and I met my parents at our local amusement park, where we have had season passes for several years. It was their opening day and only season pass holders of 3+ years were allowed to make reservations. I think they wanted only the steadfastly loyal there for their dry run.

It was awesome. No one was there and we went on a million rides, never having to wait. Right when we got there my favorite roller coaster opened as we were talking to the woman at the start of the line about when we could ride. We ran up and were the only two people on the first train. We got to sit at the front, which usually has an even longer line than the rest of the train (your feet dangle and there is nothing in front of you except for the massive drops and dips when you sit in the front). I haven’t ridden that roller coaster in probably 10 years because the line is always so long. It was so fun to ride it twice in a row.

The kid area ended up being almost as crowded as it normally is (which is usually less crowded than the rest of the park), so we went on a lot of the adult rides that usually have longer lines than we want to stand in. We stayed for five hours and then felt like it was time to go. I was actually quite nauseous by the end – it turns out I can’t actually ride roller coasters all day and be okay. But it was super fun to be back at the park, and we felt really safe the whole time being outside with no crowds.

SUNDAY

Sunday my daughter went to soccer and my son hung out at home. I got the cat’s boxes cleaned (the big clean that takes longer) and steam cleaned the kitchen floors. I also steam cleaned the hall from the garage to the entrance to our unit (that is now our “master suite”) which we had to clear out for the fence to be fixed (so they could bring the materials through the hall to the backyard). I did a bunch of the laundry that is easy to put off (towels and blankets mostly), and put up the stuffie hammock I got for my daughter who sleeps on a thin sliver of her twin mattress because stuffed animals take up most of it. It was definitely a day to get things done.

I also played some games with my son, and we read a book together.

At 5pm my parents picked my kids up for a sleep over. Since I take them down there on Monday morning we figured they could just spend Sunday night there and sleep in instead of piling into the car with me at 8am.

My husband and I got Chinese food and watched all four of the final episodes of Watchmen, which I just loved. It was so fun to binge watch something I am really into. We haven’t done that in a long time.

You might have noticed I didn’t mention work at all. Besides grading some papers in the garage during my son’s movie night, I didn’t do any work. This came back to bite me in the ass Monday, but I got through the day. I had a ton of work to do Monday night but it was worth it.

Only three more weekends before summer! I’m so ready for the school year to be over.

How was your weekend?