What are your plans for the weekend?
What are you up to this weekend? It’s supposed to be dry and not freezing cold, so I imagine at least a portion of each day will be spent outside with the kids digging in the backyard mud pit/garden box in our much beloved rain suits.
Their boots are always coated in mud, so I recently decided to get Dino Boy a second pair to make rainy preschool mornings easier. Not wanting to drop $25 on new boots, I stopped in Once Upon A Child with both kids in tow. We walked out 30 minutes later with no rain boots (none in his size!) in hand, but $25 in new-to-us toys. Ooops. Lesson learned — shop solo! — and new boots ordered.
Here are a few fun things that caught my eye this week…
Do you have a hobby? Before kids, I used to have a whole room in our old house for my sewing machines and fabrics. Now, I’m just happy if I can squeeze in a craft a few minutes at a time here and there. Lately, I’ve been playing around with air dry clay. It’s so cheap to make that it’s practically free. Which feels very low pressure, a lovely thing. I make a batch and then store in a baggie, and pull some out when I have a few minutes here and there. I paint when the kids are having quiet time or playing nicely together. I borrowed a few books from the library to get some inspiration. It feels really nice to do something that’s just for fun! and that’s easy on the budget.
If you have an iPhone, it might be a good idea to turn on this new safety feature. So much of our lives are on our phones now, so it’s better to be safe than sorry!
I took the kids to Ikea solo yesterday, which would have been overwhelming just to think about when they were younger. We ate lunch and I did the shopping that I needed to do. Made me a little weepy thinking about those first few months when I was a new mom to two under 2 and how hard it was to get out the door just to take a walk around the block. All of us often ended up in tears. Wish I could go back and give myself a hug and say some day this will be easier.
What are you watching right now? We just finished Jury Duty, and oh my! was it delightfully funny. You may not be completely sold after the first episode, so give it a chance. Just thinking about the chair pants will send me into fits of giggles. It was surprisingly heartwarming. On Wednesdays, I ask my Instagram pals what they’re watching and they recommended: Reacher, True Detective, Beef, No Offence, Schitt’s Creek, and The Crown.
I think I’m at an age where advice like this just makes me LOL
I’m making a double batch of these bars this morning. Dropping half off — plus waffles, bacon, and some other snacks — to a mom from Dino Boy’s preschool who gave birth last week.
I started Demon Copperhead this week, and holy heck. The writing is so good, but I just know it’s going to break my heart. My Instagram pals also recommended: The Blonde Identity, Big Little Lies, Beach Read, The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, Technically Yours, and The Other Mothers.
I’m still mourning that someone bought this dress before I did.
I think I’m going to do this for our Valentine’s this year — how cute!
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