Weekend Busy Bodies

The weekend blew by in a hurry! On Saturday I went to my circuit class at the gym, stayed afterwards & did a little extra cardio (where are the results darnit?!?!?!? oh, maybe the cookies took care of them....) came home for lunch, cruelly dragged my kids outside for some family togetherness, knowing that Sunday would be a write off. While they were playing on the swingset with Murray, I snuck back inside & had a 20 minute nap before going off to do family pictures for a friend of mine from the multiples group.

When I got home, Murray had started sandwiches for the kids since he & I were going out for dinner. We got them finished up & cleaned up & when Laura got here, we bailed since we were starving!

We were going to try a new Chinese restaurant but got there to find that it's so new, they're not even open yet and went to Boston Pizza instead. Big mistake. I think we'd have gotten faster service waiting for the other place to finish their decor, train their staff and open the place. There were at least 3 empty tables & 4 hostesses hanging around their desk and it still took 15 minutes to get a seat. By the time we ordered it was 7:25. Having had a super long delay on a previous BP visit, I decided to actually watch the time to see if it really took as long as it felt or if it was just my stomach! I asked the server how long she thought the food would be & she said about 20 minutes. Thank heaven my meal came with a salad because our meals didn't get here til 8:05! In the meantime, the cell rings. Uh oh. Crap. Do we have to go home?????

Laura: umm, sorry to have to phone you, but uh there's a dead mouse in the basement.

Kelly: (whew, kids are still alive, we can stay!) oh, well, don't worry about that, PW will take care of it or we will when we get home. You're sure it's dead?

Laura: ummm it's head is missing so yeah, it's dead.

Kelly: (crap. is she terrified of mice & in need of our immediate assistance????) just ignore it, we definitely don't expect you to look after that ok?

Laura: ok then.

Somehow this conversation does not deter us in the least or detract from our hunger. When the food finally arrives we plow through it in record time. When she asks if we'd like to order dessert I look at her like she's got two heads. Ummm yeah because I have another hour to waste sitting here? We were supposed to go order new glasses for Murray but by the time we got out of there & over to the mall, the store was closed. So for our big night out we went to Walmart & Chapters just because it was too early to go home! LOL

When we did get there, we didn't get a good report. The kids "missed us" at bedtime & I think they threw some pretty good freak outs for her. She looked a little tired! We left around 6:45 & were home by 10 & Sweetie had only fallen asleep 20 minutes before we got there. Not a good sign. We paid her for 5 hours just to try & bribe her into coming back again someday. We'll see if that worked or not!

Sunday morning we were off to church despite a rocky start! After service the girls had cherub choir practice for their big debut next week! (we'll see if that actually happens or not! they were supposed to sing a VBS song this week but Sweetie was terrified to stand up there & cried & clung to Murray instead)

After that, we headed out for a quick bite to eat before going back to the church hall for Fall Fest. The kids played games, decorated cupcakes, coloured pictures & helped Murray carve his best pumpkin ever!

Once the festivities wrapped up, we zipped home for a pee break & to collect our first born & head to M&D's for Sunday night dinner. I slep the whole way there & would have gladly conked out on the comfy couch but decided that wasn't too polite & helped set the table instead.

By the time we got home we were pretty wiped out! and to make matters worse, we'd forgotten Bunny at my parents' house!!!!!!!!!! There was much wailing and carrying on about that & for the next night too and any time she wakes up DURING the night. It has slowly gotten a little less intense but she talks about Bunny all the time and how she misses her & how Bunny's having a sleepover at Grammie's, Bunny's making lists of things for Grammie to give her for dinner (mostly carrots, carrot mush, carrot soup etc) and asks several times a day how long til Friday????