Monday Musings // Weekending

What a weekend! It started off great with a Girls' Night Out at our local Party at the Point. This is a party that occurs every Friday from now until mid-June...there is always a band playing and it's just a fun time. I went with a few of my girlfriends from our neighborhood wine club.

The band that night was Departure, a Journey cover band. **Don't Stop Believin'....nananananananaaaa.."

It also happened to be wine night for our club that night, so we stopped in at the hostess's house after that and I did not get home until around 1am. 

I love those girls! We have some crazy-good wine nights together!

Saturday was a rainy day, so the kids and I stayed inside, got chores done and I may have snuck in a little nap during Farrah's nap time...I. Was. Exhausted. From the night before. We had a birthday party to go to for my friend's son at SkyZone later that afternoon. I was so glad it happened on the rainy day because the boys desperately needed to get some energy out. And that they did.

And then Sunday, I took all 3 kids to the pool solo - yep, Supermom status right there. ;-) I got Farrah into her new float...the water was cold since it had been raining the day before, so we didn't stay in too long, but the boys had fun.

Jake had been given the green light to go play some beach volleyball since I had gone out Friday night. 

We met up later at La Hacienda for dinner, but by then, I felt pretty out of it...all the weekend's antics had caught up to me. I had been up since 4am on Friday since I've started Body Beast again and staying out until 1am that night pretty much has me needing about two straight days of sleep to get my energy back. I certainly do not bounce back like I used to! I'm actually dragging at work today because I also got up at 4am today to do my Body Beast workout as well. I really want to stick with it, so I've set my alarms on my phone to go off in the following order:

That last one is just for laughs...but if I ever make it to needing that one to go off to finally get out of bed, I'm in trouble. So far, I've gotten up on the first one and not needed the others.

Anyway, I hope I can snap out of this tired fog soon...one of my Facebook friends posted this to their timeline this morning and I felt it was more than appropriate for how I'm feeling at the moment.

Happy Monday! Hope y'all had a great weekend and have a great week! xo

Linking Up With: Life Of Meg // Still Being Molly // Lipgloss & Crayons // B Loved Boston

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I just finished a wonderfully detoxifying 90 min hot yoga session and this is my post-workout treat:

Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. xoxo.

"That's Your Wine."

So my little Tanner has always been quite the little artist. I literally buy him a pack of computer paper and the kid will go through it in a week. (I've since had to ration it out more carefully.) Anyway, every now and then, I'll pick up one of the hundred or so drawings he has around the house and try to analyze it to figure out what everything is...it really gives me a deeper understanding of what's on his mind.

Well, the other day, I see a drawing of what clearly is a house and three people standing outside it...which I could only interpret to be Tanner, Jake and me (by the way, he left Breckin in the house by himself - but that's another analysis for another day). Well, so it was a cute, happy little picture except I happened to notice one interesting little detail - this is what Mommy looked like:

Yeah, I pretty much wanted to hand over my parenting rights right then and
there.

Well, so anyway, the next morning at breakfast, I showed the picture to Tanner and this is how the conversation went:

Me: "Tanner, can you tell me what everything in this picture is?"
Tanner: (Pointing out everyone) "That's me, Daddy and Mommy and that's our house."
Me: "Where's Breckin?"
Tanner: "He's inside the house."
Me: "Oh, but we don't really like to leave him in the house by himself now do we?"
Tanner: "Yes we do."
Me: "OK. What is that in Mommy's hand?"
Tanner: "That's your wine."
Me: "Why did you draw wine in my hand?" (I really should have never asked.)
Tanner: "Because you always drink it."

There you have it, folks. Mommy's a wine-o, and even my 5-year old knows it. Dang, and all this time I thought I was keeping it on the DL.

Disclaimer: This "glass of wine" that I have in my hand is symbolic of the glass I have a couple nights a week after the kids have gone to bed, or with my dinner. Let us keep in mind, he did not draw a bottle of wine in my hand. Thanks! :) A glass of wine a day keeps the doctor away!

Gratitude.

Today I'm linking up with Naomi at Momaholic.
She has started a weekly blog link up about Gratitude.

I have many things to be thankful for and no matter what life may throw at me, I know that I should always be appreciative of what it doesn't throw at me too.

This week I have Gratitude for:

1. Tanner and Breckin - the best boys a mother could ask for.

2. Jake - my husband, my partner, my rock, my friend.

3. Beach days.

4. T-Ball Season being OVER. (Though Tanner was so cute in his uniform)

5. Nice evenings with my husband and a couple glasses of red wine.

6. Tie-dye kits. (Breckin's [once white] onesies are so cute now!)

7. Blogging being a socially-accepted hobby for moms.

8. Cute aviators.

I have so much more, but I've gotta spread it out since I am going to do one of these each week!