I have to admit that life is very good right now. Work is very good, but very difficult right now. I usually come home with work worries and stress running through my veins. Sometimes I’m tired, distant, grumpy etc. But having weekends with my family has become one of the great oases of my life. A year or two ago, I made the decision to try to never work on Saturday or Sunday. I’ve stuck to it fairly well, and that has allowed those days to be all about family, fun and recovery. So yes, I LOVE MY WEEKENDS!
Saturday was quite low key. I took care of the kid in the morning while Lily went to yoga. About the time Lily came home, Lydia’s friend, Grace, came over to play. Grace was about an hour late and Lydia was so excited to play with her that she was innocently saying things like, “when is Grace going to get here!” When Grace came, she and Lydia did not want to play with Mary, and Mary was extremely sad at being left out. Her situation gave me the idea to take her on an outing. We have an enclosed jogging stroller that we caused the buddy bubble. I got it out, ran to the store for a tire pump and pumped up the tires.
While working on the stroller, Mary came into the garage, and said, “dad, there is water coming out of the light, it’s kindof weird.” I have this really bad habit of ignoring signs of trouble so I can stay in a blissful ignorant state. For example, when our basement was flooding, and Lydia came into the bedroom to tell me and Lily (who were in bed) that the basement carpet was wet, I rolled over and said I’d check it out later. Lily was the one who ran downstairs and discovered that water was gushing into our basement and soaking everything. Well, I almost made the same mistake this time. I initially convinced myself that kids are always spilling stuff, and I probably just wasn’t understanding what Mary meant, and there was likely just a spill somewhere. But then remembering how wrong I was with the basement flood (to not respond), I went in the house to check things out. Sure enough, water was streaming out of the can light in our ceiling. I ran upstairs to tell Lily to turn off her shower. And then we got Moroni, our friend and repair man to check things out. It will be a simple fix for him. It just made the day a bit more interesting.
After the water drama, I then ran to the park pushing Mary and Ammon.
At the park we fed the ducks and played on the playground. The ducks were hilarious to me. I’m sure there were over one hundred of them. We parked ourselves at a pavilion that didn’t have a duck anywhere near it, and we started throwing bread. Within seconds the ducks were swarming us. It was quite the site! Here are two quick videos:
We had a fantastic time. I also felt extremely grateful that my knee did not lock up on the way home. I usually can’t run past 4 or 5 miles without it locking up from pain, and Lily was on call to pick me up if needed, but today I didn’t feel a think so that was a huge blessing.
At home, we hung around and then I went and picked up Slab Pizza that Lily called in for the family. Our great friends, the Harbucks, introduced it to us, and it’s now one of our favorite pizza places.
After eating pizza and putting the kids down, I read a lot of scriptures and then went to bed. Lily and Lydia stayed up reading their books. Lily finished “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton, and Lydia finished, “Percy and the Olympians” by Rick Riordan. They are both such book worms. Each of them only started their book yesterday!