Monday Musings

This post is coming at you way late today...I apologize.

It's been a long weekend {Tanner was home from school Friday and today}. I actually got the boys out of the house today and took them to the Super Cool Homework Shop...it's a neat little place...they were able to run around and there was so much to do there. I desperately needed some time to clean my house and do some bookkeeping for my father-in-law...so it was a nice break for us all.

Friday started off with taking the kids to their doctor appointments. Breckin had to get his 4yo vaccines {4 shots} and wow, it took a nurse and me to hold him down while another nurse administered the shots and that boy screamed bloody murder! So much that it even caused Farrah to cry. He had built it up in his head so much and freaked himself out. My little actor was limping the next two days, trying to insist he needed help getting his pants up and down because "his shots hurt". Oh my...is that just like a man, or what?

On Saturday, we spent the morning picking out some books at the library. I found a copy of Apartment Therapy and Domino to glance through, while Breckin got about eight bedtime stories and Tanner got a few chapter books.

Sunday after church we went to the beach...Jake played volleyball for a little while and the kids and I all hung out and had fun. It has been a while since I've been to the beach! Silly me, I didn't pull my phone out to take any pictures {guess I was preoccupied with three kiddos at the beach!} It was a beautiful day though and I am so glad we made it out. I look forward to the next time we can go.

After that, we stopped at Jake's parents' house to take in the Packers vs. Seahawks game...we could not believe how it ended...my husband {the die-hard Packer fan}, was sorely disappointed. I was too...I was really looking forward to a fun Superbowl this year...now Jake isn't even in the mood to party!

In other news {and for the sake of having SOME pictures in this post - I hate pictureless posts}...Farrah received her giraffe from Zulily and it's as big as she is! And oh so soft...she loves it.

And I finally got my 2015 Erin Condren Life Planner. I've used her Life Planners for the past two years now, so this is my 3rd. But silly me, I ordered it super late and went nearly 3 weeks into the new year without an organizer...I felt like a giant piece of me was missing... #ocdproblems  Isn't it so pretty though?

I opted to get the snap-in weekly meal planner too {there is a grocery list on the back of it}...I definitely feel better when I've planned my meals for the week.

Hope y'all have a great week! It's my husband's birthday this Saturday, so we'll finally get a date night!

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Summer Reflections & Labor Day Weekend

Summer is over. And I'm kicking myself. It went by too fast. {Doesn't it always?} I've been so busy, I'm ashamed to admit that last week, I realized I hadn't gone to the beach once. Not ONCE. I had gone for my birthday in April and that was it. I went straight into "WTF is wrong with me" mode.

Because of that realization, I made it mandatory for us get out to the beach last weekend. I worked at 5am both days, but I was determined to get out there as soon as I got home and ready to go on Saturday. My boys deserved a day at the beach.

I have one of those bad mommy feelings...I feel like I didn't do enough with my boys this summer. This one was just particularly nuts and seemed to fly by. When it started, I had dreams and plans of play parks, library trips, splash parks, pool visits and beach days galore.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like we didn't do anything, but it just bothers me as a mom that I don't get to be around during the daytime with them when there's more opportunity to do fun things. {All you SAHM bloggers, I hope you know how lucky you are!} I know their daycare did a lot of things with them, but I will definitely make up for their lack of fun time with Momma this fall and winter. I will NOT be working so many weekends anymore - it's just not worth it. I've already got my planner filled out with events and things to do this fall with them.

However, we did get to do some fun things this summer - we made it to Idaho to visit my family, visited the zoo a few times {love having a membership - totally worth it - we even got into the Boise Zoo in Idaho for $0.50 each because of it!} and we had a great weekend in Myrtle Beach at a hotel with a water park and even took the boys to go on some rides at the Boardwalk there. Jake and I even got out for one of our far-and-few-between date nights to see The Barenaked Ladies and other great bands. {That's something he and I need to work on too!}

So this summer definitely doesn't go down as one of the best summers in history for us, but I'm hopeful that next summer since Breckin will be almost 3 and Tanner will be a rising 2nd grader, we'll be able to get out and do more. Coordinating fun around naps, work schedules and SC thunderstorms is just plain tricky business. This summer is the first summer I didn't go to the beach for over 3 months in a row in the last 11 years. Wow. That will not be happening again!

This past weekend, since it was Labor Day weekend and I had a fabulous three days off in a row, I finally put the housework on the backburner and took the boys to do fun things. We only get so many summers with them and I won't be making the mistake of not planning for more fun quality time with them again. Jake and I took Tanner out to celebrate his first week of 1st grade - we also wanted to spend some quality time just him and us so the grandparents took Breckin for a few hours. We played miniature golf and rode go-carts. The next day we had a BBQ with our neighbors and their kids and Sunday we went to the beach. Here a couple of pictures from our weekend:

We also got new fish this weekend, unfortunately, our other three died over the weekend. One had been sick due to an injury and the others died when I did a partial water change...not sure what went wrong there, even the pet store employees were stumped. But we're giving it another go with these guys and hoping for the best.

Hope y'all had a fabulous Labor Day weekend! xoxo.

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