Beautiful days (also cats)

We interrupt our CDMX series for a quick recap on the weekend. It’s been a beautiful couple of days, and I’m sooooo glad I had them after our trip, and before returning to work.

Friday was a get some stuff done day and I did, indeed get some stuff done. I got everything from Friday’s post done except the work stuff. It is 11pm on Sunday night and I have still not opened my work browser. Oops! Oh well. I’ll have an hour before the kids come in tomorrow and I’m sure I’ll get through the day. I have my copies made at least! Woot! I’m a little annoyed at myself for not getting any work done, but it obviously wasn’t a priority for me so I’m going to accept that and move on.

But I did get to Costco, my husband and I talked about the coming weeks, I got one short and one long CDMX post published and I wrote most of Day 2’s post (I worked on it for almost an hour and it’s not done yet! – this project will definitely take longer than I initially expected), and I did my weight training. The weight training was so successful that I’ve barely been able to walk for the past 48 hours! I’m legs are so sore. I guess a 20 minute Lower Body class with 20lb weights was not the way to get back into it. Though the 10 minute chest and back, and 10 minute arms and shoulders didn’t take me out and they felt hard at the time. I’m really hoping my legs feel better tomorrow because hobbling around work will not be awesome.

Saturday I had to wake up at 6am to get my daughter to school for a robotics tournament. I tried to fall asleep after I got back at 7:15 but it didn’t happen. So I just got on with chores and stuff around the house. And I spent some time on my CDMX Day 2 post (which I hope will be up soon).

Then I went to the dojo. Luckily my legs weren’t hurting too badly yet, so I was able to participate in all the classes. The forms class was a little daunting because I realized that everyone else who is testing with me in April knows the form really well and I’ve only learned about 1/3 of it. It’s a really long form and I have a lot of work to do on it. I need to step up my efforts, considerably.

Saturday was a super beautiful day – sunny and the high was 70! I was a little bummed to be in the dojo for the best hours of it. My husband and son walked down to the dojo to get outside and we all walked home together. It was nice to be outside before the sun went down.

At home we played a game together and later that evening my son and I watched a movie. Oh and I got all the patches sewn on the gi’s. That was actually a lot of work and I’m so glad it’s done. My husband and I started a charmingly odd Italian movie on Friday night, but I was so zonked and had to wake up at the crack of dawn on Saturday so we stopped it early, and finished it Saturday night. All in all, Saturday was a super chill day.

Sunday I slept in until 10am! This was not the plan. I definitely woke up at 8am, when my husband got up to be with out son upstairs, but I must have passed out again because when I checked my phone again it was 9:57am. I guess I needed the sleep!

Sunday was supposed to be cloudy and a lot cooler than Saturday, but when I got up it was sunny and beautiful so I decided to take my son and a friend to the Great Highway again. Luckily the same friend was available, and this time I brought stuff to play in the sand afterward. My legs were very sore, but I could still run. It hurt, but less than walking. I’m hoping getting out on them will help them to feel better faster.

Being out in the sun and beautiful weather just felt so, so good. The kids had a great time and I was so happy to be running. I love when it works out for me to run while the kids bike on the weekend. It was awesome and I was so happy it worked out, that the weather held and the friend was available, and my sore legs were manageable. Also, my daughter had a friend over at home and VERY much appreciated me getting her brother out of the house. Hooray!

After the run/ride, we locked the bikes near the car and brought some sand toys down by the water. I realized all that sand would be a perfect spot to practice my form, which I worked on for over an hour. I REALLY needed the solo practice, and am SO glad I was doing it on a sunny beach, with the waves crashing around me, instead of in my backyard, where the sun still doesn’t reach the patio at this time of year. It was just a really amazing way to get something done I very much had to do, and to kill the time on the beach while the boys played.

And they did play! For almost two hours! Without any complaining! My son doesn’t really love sand so I expected he’d last a short time, but by 4pm I was telling them we had to leave. We packed everything up, got the bikes back on the car, and headed home.

The rest of the night was normal Sunday chore stuff. My son took a bath, I took a shower, the kids made their lunches, my son finished his math homework, my daughter read a book, my husband cooked dinner and I did the dishes. We finished it off watching a 40 minute documentary called Voyage of Time. It was pretty stunning, and our black cat was SUPER interested in all the sounds and images. We watched most of it like this:

And because I haven’t posted photos of these cats in a while, here are a few more. We really missed them on our trip and have been enjoying them a lot since we’ve been home.

It really was a nice weekend. Today (Sunday) especially was a really nice day. I love when it works out for me to take one kid out so another kid can have the house to themselves with a friend. I love when I can get what I need (a run) and my kid can get what they need (a ride and time with a friend). I love when the weather makes being outside feel amazing. I love when I’m in a space for the time I need to get something done I had to do anyway, and that the space and time make doing it that much more pleasant. I just love when it all comes together, and today it did.

Now it’s almost midnight and I NEED to get to sleep so I can have a decent first day back at work tomorrow. There is no way it will be as perfect as today, but it could be great. Or good at least. 😉