Where did my weekend go...for that matter, where has the week gone?

As per usual the weekend is gone and here we are, it’s already Wednesday and I’m looking forward to the next weekend.  It’s been snowing all week.  Come on mother nature!  You had all winter!

Friday night was a blur.  It usually is, we get home, eat dinner, do some clean up, etc. and crash from the long week.  I tried this recipe on Pinterest for Friday night, a whole chicken, BBQ sauce, lemons, onion and coke.  It was okay.  We let it cook on low from about 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and it was falling off the bones, but it wasn’t this great recipe I’d been led to believe by others on Pinterest.  I’d much rather just cook chicken in the oven with our favorite barbecue sauce, which is my own.  I mix together organic ketchup, real maple syrup, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, a couple shots of worcestershire sauce, and the McCormick’s BBQ seasoning.  Every brand of BBQ sauce I look at has high fructose syrup as one of the main ingredients and I just figured I could make something that tasted better, which I have and we all enjoy it.

Saturday I spent a lot of time catching up on laundry and playing with my sweet baby boy.  He had a cold so he was not his normal happy self this weekend, but I did get some smiles out of him.  He’s so ornery, as soon as he has something he knows he’s not allowed to have he takes off running from wherever you are and giggles uncontrollably.  I love that freaking kid so much.  When Hubby got home from work we all cleaned up and went out.  We’re in the market for new Tupperware.  I decided I wanted the Rubbermaid Premier set in red, but I wanted the big set.  We’d found it on Amazon but wanted to see if we could buy it in the stores this weekend and nope, no one had it.   We did get Hayden an Adirondack chair in green that matches the ones we already have on our porch.  It’s just as cute as can be!  We also mosied around Target, but did good. We only bought detergent, lots of baby socks that were on clearance and some bath crayons.  After gift cards we only spent like $17.  We then went to dinner at Applebee’s.  We eat there way too much.  I got a steak with shrimp and Parmesan garlic sauce on it.  Yum.  We also got the pub pretzel sticks with beer cheese and honey mustard sauce.  So good.  After we got home we put the babe down for bed and watched This is 40.  I loved it.  Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are some of my favorite people and though some parts were over the top (like their older daughter screaming “fuck” at them) a lot of it seemed like real life situations that play out in a marriage and family.

Sunday was family day.  We had a big breakfast of homemade pancakes with fresh blueberries and bacon, then got cleaned up and headed up to Cleveland to go back to the Children’s Museum, Hubby tagged along this time.  Hayden had a blast, again.  Of course I couldn't waste a trip going north without going to Trader Joe’s, even if it was completely out of the way!  I had to stock up on more cookie butter and wine.  Afterwards we tried to go to Golf Galaxy so Hubby could try out a new driver there but the line was ridiculous and Hayden and I were in the car while he snoozed, so we just ended up going home.

I’ve been working out in the mornings and it is working out so well!  By the time I get off work, or after Hayden goes to bed, I’m too exhausted to go do anything that strenuous.  It’s kind of like those pins I keep seeing on healthy boards that say “If you started running when you first thought about it, you’d be done already.”  So I get my workout in before I’d even normally be up and awake for the day.  The only drawback to this plan is I need to go to bed at a decent time, which is so hard!  After Hayden goes to bed I can lose myself in Pinterest or in a book for hours and not realize it, so I have to be so much more aware of what activities I do after he goes to bed.  One of us puts him to bed while the other cleans up toys for the 135,246,146^th time that day, then I come downstairs, make sure the dishes are done, things are set to go to either get lunches ready in the morning or pack them that night (it all depends on what we’re having, leftovers, something new, berries that I don’t like to wash the night before, etc.), wash my face, brush my teeth, then curl up in bed with the iPad for a half an hour or so before I’m so exhausted I just crash.

The rest of this week will be spent prepping for our overnight trip this weekend.  I need to get some junk out of the van (mainly that Adirondack chair in my backseat), get the seats folded down and get Hayden’s big stroller and pack’n’play situated in there.  Then pack a bag of toys for him, finish up the Easter baskets, get us packed, make sure there’s room for golf clubs…sigh and type up my plan for the dogs while we’re gone for the dog sitter.

I can’t wait to get down to Athens and enjoy the almost 60 degree weather!

We didn't take too many pictures this weekend.

At Applebee's, my husband cannot take a decent picture to save my life!

Goofing around in the tub.  He's got this new thing where he looooooves laying back in the water, where before he would freak if he got his hair wet even!

Just loving on his daddy!  He is definitely a daddy's boy.