I’ve been really tired this week, and after what felt like weeks of not adjusting to the Daylight Savings Tine, I want to honor my bodies desire to sleep at 10:30 or 11pm, so I’ve been doing that.
But I also wanted to post some highlights from the weekend, which was full and fun.
I made it on a run Saturday morning and it felt great. I’m so glad I got out.
We got some warm weather last week and it feels like every flower is in bloom right now. I love California Poppies and they are everywhere.
I took my son and his friend to see Sonic 2. I didn’t love that my first trip back in a theater was to see that movie, but I loved how happy it made my son. We went to the nice theater, with fewer seats, where they serve you food and drinks during the showing. There weren’t many people, which helped me feel more comfortable. I hope to see something else in the theater soon! It was more fun to be back than I expected.
After we walked to a playground, where my son talked some smack about my tire swing pushing skills, to which I had to respond. His friend was (obviously) very impressed. Nobody pushes a tire swing better than me.
Saturday night we saw a Lucha Libre show at nearby high school. We went once before the pandemic, and the kids loved it, but they went really crazy for it this time. They were super into it, and it was really fun.
It was over pretty late, but the kids made it to the end. It was our first big, crowded event, and there were a fair amount of people without masks, but we wore our kn95s the whole time. I guess we’ll see if we caught anything there.
Sunday my husband took our son and his friend to a Cal baseball game and I took our daughter to her first swim lesson in two years. She was nervous but ended up loving it. I’m so happy, because she loved swimming before the pandemic and I was worried that love would be lost in the two years away from the lane lines. I hope they are still doing their pre-swim team program, which is what she was attempting to qualify for in March of 2020 when everything stopped.
My daughter and I also worked in the backyard, felling the high grasses that have flourished during the (not very wet) winter.
It was really windy, which made the task a lot harder, but we persevered.
The news cycle is so grim right now, and I feel bad for putting up a bunch of photos of my immense privilege weekend, but I’m not sure what else to do in this space. I know I appreciate reading other people’s blogs right now, so I guess I’ll keep writing this one, even though it doesn’t solve any problems (or even mentions them most of the time).
I hope you’re all hanging in there.
Love CA Poppies. Thank you for the pictures showing how gorgeous they are.
Sounds like you all had an amazing weekend and clearly getting the grasses cut in the back yard was a big job. Wind makes it much harder. Glad you all are getting out and around while things are still quieter on the health front.
Thank you for sharing things that are good in this time. You help all of us this way. And, now I am back to postcards re getting out the vote. You made me feel better.
Ditto what purple and rose said. It is okay to share fun happy things…kinda takes my mind off other things. Have good weekend!