Randomness of the Weekend

It's weird getting back into a regular routine again. I had Jacob home for 2 weeks over Christmas break and it was nice! He helped with Daniel in the mornings and even kept him home with him several days when I went to the Y. Daniel had lots of fun having Daddy time.

Jacob went back to work on Friday for a teacher inservice. We decided to go back to Springfield that evening because his money and gift cards were burning a hole in his pocket!

We of course couldn't pass up the opportunity to use one of our gift cards at Olive Garden. Once I again, I must brag on our child. He is seriously the best kid ever when we go out to eat! We always laugh because they stick the large groups of people and the people with kids clear in the back. Oh well! Mr. Picky Eater apparently knows that the Olive Garden cooks better than I do. He ate a bunch of my soup, almost a whole bread stick and some of my chicken scampi noodles! He also smelled like a bread stick for the rest of the night!

We stopped at Disc Replay because Jacob wanted to trade in some more of his stuff for cash. While he did that, Daniel and I went to Kohl's, but I didn't have much luck finding anything I wanted.

Next we headed to Best Buy again. Poor Jacob...all this Christmas money and gift cards and they didn't have what he wanted, so he left empty handed.

Then we went to Target, to see if they had what Best Buy didn't. They didn't have anything either, so we went to WalMart. Jacob had given me a gift card to get New Girl and they had it in stock! Woohoo! As for Jacob? He couldn't find anything. Poor guy. He was all excited at the start and totally bummed at the end!

We got in line to pay and I couldn't believe it when I looked at my phone and realized it was 8:40! 40 minutes past Daniel's bed time and we were still a half an hour from home. Amazingly, he had been absolutely perfect the whole night! He got a little fussy in line, but I couldn't resist buying him a treat. Does this boy have me wrapped around his finger or what!? He enjoyed Teddy Grahams all the way home. :)

I seriously can't remember what we did all day on Saturday, so we must have just hung out.

Yesterday I was down to work in the nursery at church. Jacob decided to stay home, so Daniel stayed with him. We're not loving our church. It really doesn't even feel like "our" church. Just a place we go on Sundays. Ugh. I don't know what the answer is really.

We hung out at home for the rest of the day. Daniel has been in the best mood since he has gotten better. Makes me so happy to see him playing and giggling. He still amazes me and melts my heart every day. I'm SO proud to be his Mommy.

Today at the Y it was C-R-A-Z-Y. I had 18 kids. 18. Between the ages of 1 and 8 (even though it's supposed to be 6 years as the cutoff, my supervisor allows it). Remember my first day when I almost died with 13 (and had a complete meltdown?) Well...I handled this much better. I had more control (as much as 1 adult can with that age span). I took a lot of deep breaths and thanked God that school in Taylorville starts back up tomorrow! I also told myself if I stayed calm I could get a caramel frappe afterward. The kids were amazingly all picked up by 11 which almost never happens. (The nursery closes at 11:15). I still dinked around and cleaned a bit. I wasn't losing a little bit of pay after all those kids I watched!

Anyway, we survived. We came home and had lunch, vacuumed, did a bit of laundry and then did something I have a hard time doing...RELAXED. I got hooked on Parenthood and watched 4 episodes this afternoon! Hopefully I can get some more relaxing in tomorrow. :)