Mommy Weekend

Mommy Weekend
May 10-14

I got the chance to escape for the weekend to California to help my mom out.  She moved about a year ago and still had some things to go through in our house that my brother is now renting.  She wanted some help to tackle it, and it gave me the chance to get away for a few days without the girls.  I got a Mommy break while spending some time with my own Mommy and my brother!  Matt was super Dad as usual, and did a great job holding down the fort.  My friend Leah took Emilyn while Matisyn was at school and Matt worked a half day on Friday, and Ashly took both girls all day on Monday.  I'm so grateful for great friends.  I felt like I could relax and know my family was taken care of while I was gone.  I had to laugh that cleaning out a garage and hauling stuff out to the curb was relaxing in comparison to my normal job as a Mommy!  I came back with some renewed energy.  I arrived Thursday night, and we spent Friday doing some fun things like getting an ultrasound and finding out I was having a BOY, going to breakfast, etc. and saved the work for the rest of the weekend.  We got so much done, and I was glad I could help and spend time with my family there.  I flew out on Monday afternoon, so we took the morning to visit with Grandma Anne and my Aunt Linda.  Grandma is looking weaker every time I see her, but she seemed to at least sort of know who I was still, which was nice.  I was thankful for some more time with her.

 Some fabulous glasses I found in my room while going through the last of my things.  I don't know where they came from, but it was painful to throw them away!

 The dresser that we gave away.  I had it in my room growing up for as long as I can remember.

 Some pictures I had in my room for years too.

 Mom and Chunk working in the garage.  I can't believe how much stuff was in there.  The funniest thing was about 10 full bottles of Round Up weed killer.  Never can have too much of that stuff!  We ended up with a pile of keep, one of donate, and one of junk.  People kept stopping thinking we were having a garage sale.  We had to laugh because it made quite the statement looking in at the collection of stuff.  It was a little nostalgic too, because there were still things of my Dad's that had to be gone through.  It's easier now, as time has passed, but still hard to give up some of those things.

 Donate pile above, junk pile below.  The crazy junk pile is what kept drawing the attention of cars driving by!

 

We found my old science fair projects and I just had to capture them for posterity before I trashed them.  Such a scientist I was back then, I have so much to pass on to my girls in this department!