Weekend in Review
Hello blogland!
I had a very pleasant weekend. Let me tell ya all about it...
On Saturday, I got to get up early and go to the pool because it was the first day to sign up the kids for the rest of summer in swim lessons. They split the sign ups into two separate days, one in May for the first four weeks and one in June for the second four weeks. It was kinda nice to get away from the house to the silence of a solo trip in the van. I haven't had much quiet time lately. I got the kids in all the classes I wanted and when I got home, my wonderful husband let me go back to sleep for a couple of hours. He is a good man.
Saturday night my family did something a bit silly. I have a sister-in-law (married to my brother) who lives in Idaho. She is expecting their first baby in August. Her mom lives here too and thought it would be fun if we all sent packages with baby gifts on the same day. Sort of a through the mail baby shower. My family (my mom and sisters etc.) thought this was a fun idea and all agreed to participate. Then my mom had another idea. What if we all got together and had a baby shower, video taping the whole thing for my expecting SIL here and then sent her the tape with all the gifts etc. This may sound a bit cheesy but we had a great time. My aunt hosted the party and we all gathered. We decorated, put up a table of goodies. My aunt made special cupcakes with little baby booties on them(she also decorated my wedding cake. She is a talented lady.) We had a few games such as guess the expecting mommy's tummy size. We took yarn and guessed what around her waist size is and then labelled all the yarn pieces with names and bagged it up to send to her. We took all the bits and pieces from the games, parts of the decorations and all the gifts and have packed it all up in a HUGE box. Actually it is the box my new computer came in. It says DELL huge on the side. (We figure this will give my brother's heart a bit of a jump until he looks inside LOL). My other brother is driving up to visit them this next week and he is going to take the box (with frozen cupcakes included) to them. (BTW neither of the brothers mentioned here are the same as the brother mentioned in the Depeche Mode post. I have five brothers so don't even bother trying to keep it all straight. ;-D ) We look forward to my SIL letting us know who won the guess the tummy size game.
Then Sunday, Father's Day, was good. My kids and I spent the morning treating daddy. The kids had all made him little cards and gifts. They were very cute about it and I gave him something not handmade. (I have yet to figure out how to craft a watch.) Then we went to church (we were 20 min late UGH!). Then we spent the evening at my in-laws. We all brought part of dinner and had a very nice time visiting.
This is the fifth Father's Day I've been without my dad. This week would have also been my parents' 38th wedding anniversary. It has all had my emotions a bit scrambled. As such I haven't written a post for Father's Day. I have been thinking through this and I have decided that this week I am going to write several posts about the important 'fathers' in my life. I have been blessed to be surrounded by some amazing men and I want to share some about them with you. My husband is also going out of town for much of this week. Since I don't sleep well when he is gone, I figure I'll have lots of time to work through writing these posts.
I had a very pleasant weekend. Let me tell ya all about it...
On Saturday, I got to get up early and go to the pool because it was the first day to sign up the kids for the rest of summer in swim lessons. They split the sign ups into two separate days, one in May for the first four weeks and one in June for the second four weeks. It was kinda nice to get away from the house to the silence of a solo trip in the van. I haven't had much quiet time lately. I got the kids in all the classes I wanted and when I got home, my wonderful husband let me go back to sleep for a couple of hours. He is a good man.
Saturday night my family did something a bit silly. I have a sister-in-law (married to my brother) who lives in Idaho. She is expecting their first baby in August. Her mom lives here too and thought it would be fun if we all sent packages with baby gifts on the same day. Sort of a through the mail baby shower. My family (my mom and sisters etc.) thought this was a fun idea and all agreed to participate. Then my mom had another idea. What if we all got together and had a baby shower, video taping the whole thing for my expecting SIL here and then sent her the tape with all the gifts etc. This may sound a bit cheesy but we had a great time. My aunt hosted the party and we all gathered. We decorated, put up a table of goodies. My aunt made special cupcakes with little baby booties on them(she also decorated my wedding cake. She is a talented lady.) We had a few games such as guess the expecting mommy's tummy size. We took yarn and guessed what around her waist size is and then labelled all the yarn pieces with names and bagged it up to send to her. We took all the bits and pieces from the games, parts of the decorations and all the gifts and have packed it all up in a HUGE box. Actually it is the box my new computer came in. It says DELL huge on the side. (We figure this will give my brother's heart a bit of a jump until he looks inside LOL). My other brother is driving up to visit them this next week and he is going to take the box (with frozen cupcakes included) to them. (BTW neither of the brothers mentioned here are the same as the brother mentioned in the Depeche Mode post. I have five brothers so don't even bother trying to keep it all straight. ;-D ) We look forward to my SIL letting us know who won the guess the tummy size game.
Then Sunday, Father's Day, was good. My kids and I spent the morning treating daddy. The kids had all made him little cards and gifts. They were very cute about it and I gave him something not handmade. (I have yet to figure out how to craft a watch.) Then we went to church (we were 20 min late UGH!). Then we spent the evening at my in-laws. We all brought part of dinner and had a very nice time visiting.
This is the fifth Father's Day I've been without my dad. This week would have also been my parents' 38th wedding anniversary. It has all had my emotions a bit scrambled. As such I haven't written a post for Father's Day. I have been thinking through this and I have decided that this week I am going to write several posts about the important 'fathers' in my life. I have been blessed to be surrounded by some amazing men and I want to share some about them with you. My husband is also going out of town for much of this week. Since I don't sleep well when he is gone, I figure I'll have lots of time to work through writing these posts.
10 Comments:
Some posts are harder to write than others
That shower sounds like a great idea and something I never would have thought of.
The virtual shower sounds like a great idea! When my brother was living in California, we sent his birthday present for his 40th birthday along with my mom who was going to visit, and then he had to open it in front of the cyber-cam, so we could all watch it live.
I understand about missing your dad. I miss mine too, and was a little sad I didn't at least find the time to visit his grave this Father's Day like I did last year.
I love the shower idea, what a wonderfl way to get together.
5 brothers....
man what can i say, you must be one tough lady.
Where in Idaho do your relatives live? If it's very close you could come meet me in the flesh someday when you're visiting them...that would be cool :-)
I think that was a great idea for your sister in law. I need to remember that for the future. What a cool idea.
I am very sorry about your dad. But when you get around to it, I'd love to hear about him.
That shower sounds like it was fun, and I bet the mom-to-be will be incredibly touched and thrilled when she gets the package.
I look forward to reading your father's day posts when you get a chance to write them.
Cute idea for the shower!
The baby shower sounds like a great idea! I'll have to remember that in the future. That was awesome! She'll love it.
Ava
Mother's Day hold the same feeling of loss for me. Loss of my Mom and loss of our first child. But it also holds great memories...the birth of our oldest daughter, our next daughter and our son...all born within two months of Mother's day.
What a wonderful idea with the shower!
The shower was a great idea. I'll have to keep that one in the back of my head for future use!
Also looking forward to the posts about your "fathers".
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home