Saturday I did the normal and dragged my happy ass to the gym at 5am. After my return home I made a delicious savory breakfast of hasbrowns, sausage and eggs.
We all went for a walk to get the mail and then played in the backyard for about an hour. Eventually, little miss sassitude was hitting a limit we know all too well and it was nap time. While she snoozed away Collin went to visit his grandma for a bit. After nap time we had lunch and then made off on our grand adventure for the day: IKEA.
It is a really good place to go and wander around. I like to get ideas while we are there about various updates we want to make in the coming years. The wee one enjoys walking around and touching everything within her reach. She also loves the carts for going through the show room because they have these poles that come up next to the seat with a little metal flag at the top. Her adoration for them is due to the semi flexible nature of the pole and the "boing" vibrations. I also try to take a minute to peruse the "As-is" section for anything I can do something with. This trip we struck gold since I decided to meander back into the "handy person's" corner where they keep odd shelves and excess cabinet doors.
For five bucks a piece I found these nice sized smooth, white cabinet doors. I will be using these in place of canvases for an art piece I have been wanting to do with my toddler Picasso since we re-did our room. Considering canvases of similar size are twenty to thirty dollars each, I made out like a bandit. I am hoping we can find time for the art project this coming weekend, but I need to pick up more foam brushes first.
Toddler art is awesome and with the internet at almost anyone's fingertips, projects are plentiful. I am still steadily building the digital collection of all the inventive arts and crafts we have brought home from "school." Our little Monet loves arts and crafts time and I truly hope I can always keep that passion going for her. I have no ambitions for her to become some famous artist (unless she wants to), but I know how important creativity can be for other things such as problem solving.
Late last month and earlier this month they did space theme at school and oh, what disgustingly adorable things they made. Other than Pinterest, I have no idea how they come up with all these awesome projects (I have talked to the teachers and I know when their creative tanks are getting low Pinterest is where they go). They made footprint spaceships; I like to call this the S.S. Always Right.
This next one has to be one of my all time favorites (so far); like, I kept the physical copy favorites. Side note: 95% of the art she does gets scanned and tossed otherwise there would be walls covered in it and the clutter would be a nightmare.
The Alien Inside:
Back to the master bedroom project though, I plan to order some standoff wall mounts to mount the pieces once mini Jackson Pollock and I are done.
After a busy, busy day we came home and I made dinner (fish taco salads for the adults, yummy) and the whole time the little demon was walking around saying, "Night night." It was barely 5pm. This went on for the next hour with only a mild respite during the actual meal. By six, the wee lass was beside herself with sleepiness and was becoming increasingly whiny. We are the meanest parents ever, you know, forcing our child to stay up past six on a Sausday evening... What the hell.
As you can imagine we allowed the bugger to retire for the evening and then we began what we had decided would be a grade B-D movie night. And boy, did we start it off right with Sharknado 2! It was so epic and horrible and hilarious and ridiculous. It was a masterpiece. But it coculdn't hold a candle to the second movie we watched: ZOMBEAVERS! How could a person go wrong with a movie title like that? You can't. By movie number three I was fading fast but we made it about forty five minutes to an hour into Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark before I decided I must seek the comfort of my bed.
This movie night proved something very important to us: we can control what we eat and what we associate food wise with certain activities. As we drove home from IKEA making a plan for our evening post toddler bed time the first thing my brain thought was, "Movie night == CANDY, om nom nom nom. So disgustingly good...." Whoa unto the part of my brain who went there for the healthy woman beat the pulp out of them within a minute. Suddenly the words were coming out of my mouth, "When we stop to get the fish and chicken do you want to get some fruit to munch on with the movies?" YES! A small victory in making the right choice regardless of the situation.
So, that's what we did. we bought some red grapes and some cherries and we gnoshed on it the whole evening. It was delicious and I felt so much better for it.
Sunday was the anticlimactic day of the weekend. Where the shadows of work begin to loom on the horizon. It was still a great day. I got all the laundry done and mostly put away (I still have the kitchen towels to fold). I cleaned the garage... Again... Now that we are done with all the current projects throughout the house I don't think it will be too hard to keep the garage in good shape.After miss teething's nap we went to get gas and then visit Collin's grandma so that we could all visit. We got home and I prepped dinner, and then slagged off to the gym for another brutal work out. Both Saturday's and Sunday's included over three and a half miles on the elliptical in forty minutes. Someday I hope to translate that pace to the pavement. Some day. After the elliptical I did the normal weight machines, always striving to up the weight little by little as I become stronger.
It was 9:30 when I had the horrible realization that I would have to go back to work today. It made me sad, but all in all it wasn't that bad today. I was expecting a couple hundred emails to sort through and was pleasantly surprised to have received less than 190. I think my customer's are appreciative that I communicate my planned vacations to them as much in advance as possible (I put it down in my signature). I was able to quickly organize and respond to everything that had come in and I don't feel anymore behind than usual, so that made the afterglow of this weekend linger on, making it feel even more restful and restorative.
Makes me curious for what it will be like when I take maternity leave in the next couple years when we have baby number two... It will probably be surreal. With number one I only took two months (that was all I could afford) and it was over in a blink, but at the same time it was nice to re-enter the world (I've never been confident in my abilities to be a stay at home mom... I'd get really restless I think). At my current job we are allowed to take three months. It seems like such a long time, but in the same breath it seems like it is never enough. Blah! I don't like talking about this topic; it's a little too deep and a little to intimate, yet something that can so easily be misconstrued and twisted about.
Puppies and kitties.
I think I have earned an episode or two of anime now that I have ruffled my own feathers. First I need to get stuff together for tomorrow.
Hope you had a moderately tolerable Monday!
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