Right, I know if you are in Chicagoland, it did rain, and now it's dark so maybe not so much a fine day. On the other hand, it's Saturday and many people had the day off.
Around here, we have Anna's friend spending the night and the boys had to spend an agonizing amount of time today w/o media. I know right? The horror, I made them read and go outside. I am terrible.
Hubs spent the early part of the day golfing and then he went up to the hospital to see his dad for several hours. Now he is on the phone with his mom. He is now officially part of that tween generation. What's that you say? Tween Generation? That is when you have kiddos at home and you are also dealing with parents as well as working full time. Woe is me, how can I whine about the man when he is working hard to help out his parents. It's not fair I tell you!
Okay enough with that sad tale. Since I am on a vacation, a self declared vacation, Tom picked up some Wendy's value menu food items for the kiddos and our sleepover guest and we are trying some chinese food tonight. Something spicy. Hopefully it is yummy. Today I had Artichoke & Spinach Dip , from Tastefully Simple, with Pretzel Crisps for lunch. Two thumbs up on that lunch. I would have had some watermelon, however all our watermelon was gone due to the kiddos!
So along with the whole "I had to walk 2 miles to school" thing, recently Patrick was giving me grief about tiny white seeds in watermelon and how that clearly showed that 'seedless' watermelons were not truly seedless. I shook my head, he has no idea about what a true watermelon eating experience is at all! '
Now the kids are settling down and soon I will tell them to go to bed. I know the boys are ready for sleep, they were up at the crack of dawn today, but I imagine it is too early to get Anna and her friend to settle in for the night. Tomorrow I have no specific plans for the day time --wooo hooo!! The man is going to go golf and hopefully he will make it home in time that we will perhaps be able to go to the Naperville Last Fling!
Still waiting on my Chinese Food!
Showing posts with label labor day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label labor day. Show all posts
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Labor Day Weekend.
Hola.
Before I start typing my upbeat it's the last blast of summer little bloggy thing, can I complain for one moment?
Great thanks!
You know what is annoying? Many things true. Here is something I find annoying. I've been devoting much time to going thru all the misc. stuff around our house and selling off what we don't use that has value left, swapping boxes of gently used stuff via thredup.com (click this and you'll go there w/my referrer code) as well as boxing up a good 3 cubic yards of misc. stuff for Purple Hearts. Everyday people who live here, come home to beds that are made, swept floors and laundry that has been put away. I am sure you can appreciate how lovely that is to come home and see, right?
Ah but what do I get but someone acting a bit huffy about a basket filled with laundry that isn't washed yet. It's 8pm on Friday night--I'm on my labor day weekend break.
I think I'm going to run with that one. I'm on vaca til Tuesday! Home Coordination Managers Unite! We get the weekend off too!
Im done with my whining now--wait, I do have one pretty uncharacteristic thing to say--if you know me you know I highly prefer summer to winter and like to wear flip flops as long as possible. Nevertheless, this little heat wave we've had around here the past few days has me watching the weather maps and counting down to the precipitous drop in temps from high 90s to high 60s we have been promised. Give me that cold snap. I'll happily throw on a hooodie. I suppose I would be complaining less about the heat if I had gone ahead and put on the air conditioning....(stop laughing! LOL)
Tomorrow afternoon Al Gore is coming over to give me an award for being super environmentally friendly. Really, he is...it's because we've been line drying our laundry. And instead of buying new clothes from China for the kids for school, I did swaps via thredup. And we only have one car instead of 2. And I gathered up all the unused pencils the kids had all over the house from last year (christmas pencils, halloween pencils, and so on) sharpened those and sent them to school with those. --funny how being environmentally friendly can be pretty close to the same as being frugal eh? But what has pushed us over the edge from being environmentally friendly to being AWARD Winning Super Environmentally Friendly with the Al Gore seal of approval is our backyard.
Our backyard is home to a very unique Natural Weed Species Refuge and Bug Sanctuary. How did we achieve this one-of-a-kind landscape feature that balances our suburban aesthetic and forward-thinking? Well I didn't plant the garden before we went to GA for a couple weeks (back when summer had just begun) because I didn't have anyone to come water while we were gone. When we got back seemed too hot to start a garden, and the man only mows grass on a very as needed basis, so the garden became filled with native species of many plants AKA weeds. So there you have it. We are super green over here.
What's for eats this weekend? I don't know, but the man said something about burgers on the grill and that sounds like a job for me and the Tastefully Simple !!! The rest of the weekend I'll be reading A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin.
Before I start typing my upbeat it's the last blast of summer little bloggy thing, can I complain for one moment?
Great thanks!
You know what is annoying? Many things true. Here is something I find annoying. I've been devoting much time to going thru all the misc. stuff around our house and selling off what we don't use that has value left, swapping boxes of gently used stuff via thredup.com (click this and you'll go there w/my referrer code) as well as boxing up a good 3 cubic yards of misc. stuff for Purple Hearts. Everyday people who live here, come home to beds that are made, swept floors and laundry that has been put away. I am sure you can appreciate how lovely that is to come home and see, right?
Ah but what do I get but someone acting a bit huffy about a basket filled with laundry that isn't washed yet. It's 8pm on Friday night--I'm on my labor day weekend break.
I think I'm going to run with that one. I'm on vaca til Tuesday! Home Coordination Managers Unite! We get the weekend off too!
Im done with my whining now--wait, I do have one pretty uncharacteristic thing to say--if you know me you know I highly prefer summer to winter and like to wear flip flops as long as possible. Nevertheless, this little heat wave we've had around here the past few days has me watching the weather maps and counting down to the precipitous drop in temps from high 90s to high 60s we have been promised. Give me that cold snap. I'll happily throw on a hooodie. I suppose I would be complaining less about the heat if I had gone ahead and put on the air conditioning....(stop laughing! LOL)
Tomorrow afternoon Al Gore is coming over to give me an award for being super environmentally friendly. Really, he is...it's because we've been line drying our laundry. And instead of buying new clothes from China for the kids for school, I did swaps via thredup. And we only have one car instead of 2. And I gathered up all the unused pencils the kids had all over the house from last year (christmas pencils, halloween pencils, and so on) sharpened those and sent them to school with those. --funny how being environmentally friendly can be pretty close to the same as being frugal eh? But what has pushed us over the edge from being environmentally friendly to being AWARD Winning Super Environmentally Friendly with the Al Gore seal of approval is our backyard.
Our backyard is home to a very unique Natural Weed Species Refuge and Bug Sanctuary. How did we achieve this one-of-a-kind landscape feature that balances our suburban aesthetic and forward-thinking? Well I didn't plant the garden before we went to GA for a couple weeks (back when summer had just begun) because I didn't have anyone to come water while we were gone. When we got back seemed too hot to start a garden, and the man only mows grass on a very as needed basis, so the garden became filled with native species of many plants AKA weeds. So there you have it. We are super green over here.
What's for eats this weekend? I don't know, but the man said something about burgers on the grill and that sounds like a job for me and the Tastefully Simple !!! The rest of the weekend I'll be reading A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin.
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