I was sitting in the corner of the orthodontist’s office this morning while my oldest son received his braces. The orthodontic assistant was kindly making small talk, asking my son what he did over the weekend. “Nothing,” he said in that awkward moment of being polite while his mouth was full of metal dental tools, “just stayed home.”
“Just stayed home?” I thought to myself- trying to remember what we did. Honestly, it feels like we’ve been going non-stop. “What did we do this weekend?” I questioned myself. For a moment I was completely blank. Oh! We worked on the beach yesterday. I weeded for hours, trimmed trees along our path, and we finally burned that stump… I guess we did ‘stay home’ yesterday… but what did we do Saturday? Oh right! It was my daughter’s first ballet recital- I was scrambling all morning with preparation: tights and costume ready; hung upside down for more poof; hair sprayed stiff in a left part/low bun. I also had volunteered to be stage mom without a clue of what I was doing… Then we took her out for ice cream, before we went back to our house to meet up with more family to celebrate my father-in-laws 72nd birthday with pizza and cake. But I knew there was more we had done… Oh yeah, we had a mural (which we had acquired upon purchase of our home- although interesting, not my taste), sanded, skimmed and painted on Friday. I weeded the whole front yard while he was working, mopped the kitchen and living room floor, did several loads of laundry and washed dishes… After he left I picked up the kids from my sister’s house. They had stayed the night because the day before, my mother had thrown them a “Peter Rabbit” inspired garden party. It’s all coming back to me. That’s why I had so many dishes to wash, I had made food for the adults at the party, Magnolia Table’s Curry Chicken Salad and Lemon Bars, Pioneer Woman’s Pretty Fruit Salad and a lemon cake for the children in rabbit molded cake pan. That night my husband, friends, and I played in our co-ed volleyball league. I remember worrying about my son’s teeth because just the day before, Wednesday, he had his spacers put in to prepare for the braces; that was the same day of my daughter’s ballet rehearsal (where “stage moms” weren’t allowed in backstage). My husband had to meet us at the rehearsal to take the boys home because the traffic during his commute was awful. It was chaos- like the night before when we had invited my in-laws over for dinner. Dinner was easy- I highly recommend the slow cooker Korean Beef Tacos from Skinnytaste. I had marinated the ingredients Monday evening and thrown everything in the cooker in the morning, before I took the kids to Costco to load up on our paper goods supplies. But, I had double-booked myself that evening and felt terrible leaving my family, because I had arranged to show our rental house to some friends that are looking to buy a home… Monday I grocery shopped… Sunday was Father’s Day… Saturday was Incredibles II… Friday we kicked off the beginning of summer break with a pool party at my sister’s -and a trip to ER because my youngest son jumped into the pool and crashed heads with my oldest…
And then it occurred to me, in the chair in the corner of that orthodontist office, that this might be the first time I sat down in over a week… Time goes…
Photos of the Summer Kickoff:
And the trip to ER:
Magnolia Table’s Chicken Curry Salad (because I love taking pictures of food).
A glimpse of the yard I weed (my part time job) and you can just catch a view of the pond area at the bottom- it’s a weedy beast. And beach we work on regularly. (Two words: goose poop).
My ballerina after the Performance:
Peter Rabbit Party Pics to come! (When I have more time.) 😉
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Lol! “Nothing” I hope we look back on one of these summer weekends and say the same thing! Great writing sis?
I know right? I was thinking “Nothing, just stayed home…” That sounds like a dream! ?
This is so perfectly positioned that every single mummy in the whole world must surely smile if she reads it. *Nothing much – we just stayed home* …. meanwhile, mummy paddles frantically like the swan that she is!
❤️? Thank you Fiona for the lovely imagery. I’d like to think I portray the grace of a swan… I’m afraid that I more resemble a deranged ostrich. ?
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Love all of this. You are amazing.
❤️?? Thank you!