We took a bite out of this long weekend...
It's Monday. After a 4-day holiday weekend. It could've been a worse day, but I'm not gonna lie, it was rough getting back in the groove and dusting off the old motivation.
Last Wednesday we were set to get out of work early anyway, but my day was cut shorter when I found out my aunt's boyfriend passed away and they basically insisted I leave early. May he rest in peace. Another life cut too short. Cancer sucks.
Thursday, 4th of July, we got an early-ish start and headed out to Long Island to a BBQ at my husband's brother and his wife's house with friends we hadn't spent time with in quite some time. It was a really nice day filled with family, friends, laughter, food, drinks and time in the (warmish-not hot) hot tub with the kids who can never get enough of it. We couldn't stay over, so we got an early start back so we could maybe catch fireworks back at home. Shockingly, we didn't hit a bit of traffic. That's the first time in the history of EVER we haven't hit Long Island traffic. We did make the fireworks and surprised our friends by arriving at their house/block party. It was so nice to spend time with many different friends in one day.
Friday was a day for me and my husband to have to ourselves, and what did we do? We tackled our house. The kids went to their respective camp/daycare place. I struggle with doing housework at night and on weekends. Being a full time working mom, I cherish the moments I have with my kids. I dislike coming home and brushing them aside to fold laundry or hanging out at home just because there's clutter that needs to be handled on the weekend. I'd rather spend those moments making memories with them and my husband. So we tackled our room and purged, cleaned up and put stuff away. It was a good feeling and yet still so much more to do. A little bit at a time, that's all I can do I guess. It wasn't all work though, after camp my girl and I went to see Despicable Me 2 with our BFFs. A really cute movie, definitely worth seeing again.
Saturday, we paid our respects at the funeral Mass for my "uncle" and if there is a silver lining, it was seeing my cousins and my aunt. Though it wasn't for very long it was really good to see them. Saturday evening we spent at our friend's house for their housewarming BBQ/party. It was a really good time, spent with more amazing friends despite the terrible heat and humidity. My girl really had her heart set on camping out in their backyard, but it was just too hot and there was no wind. We would've been miserable in a tent all night, well I know at least I would've. Sleeping & AC go hand in hand on nights like that.
Sunday, we took our new little kitten to the vet for her free check up that was included in her adoption fee. She's perfectly healthy and I'm not convinced I'll go back to that vet again. I was kind of shocked the vet was suggesting we put a third litter box in our tiny house for our two cats. She said the reason was, stress in cats cause urinary infections and they shouldn't share litter boxes. I've had multiple cats all my life and I've never heard of that. Not to say its not true, but it's a little overly cautious, in my opinion. She also suggested we feed her wet food because cats tend to not drink enough water and can become dehydrated. Not saying that's not true either, again just seems overly cautious. This kitten loves to drink water. If I see she's not peeing, I'll worry.
On Sunday afternoon we were so happy to be part of our friend's baby's baptism. My husband stood in as a stunt double godfather since the real godfather unfortunately became sick and couldn't attend. Such a special ending to a special day/weekenc AND if that wasn't enough, I was introduced to CANOLLI DIP!!! That's right canolli dip. It was served with canolli chips and it was life changing and delicious.
To top it off, my son fell asleep last night at 5 o'clock on the car ride home from the baptism. I figure he'd wake up on the transfer but he wound up falling back asleep on the couch in my arms. I finally took him up to bed at 7:30, got him changed and he stayed asleep except for a short whining moment. He slept until 7:15 this morning. Now THAT was a good nap!!! 14 hours of sleepy baby bliss.
Overall, a fantastic 4-day weekend. Lots of memories made. So thankful it was a safe weekend and everyone had a good time. I love my little family.
