Defining Characteristics to Look For:
* Sleeping-in on Saturday morning.
* Lazy, semi-unplanned Saturday, including but not limited to...
1. Still in jammies at 11am (or later if needed!).
2. A non-cold cereal breakfast, i.e. pancakes, french toast, waffles or even just bacon, eggs and toast. And orange juice... lots of orange juice. :)
3. Watching Saturday morning Disney channel cartoons while snuggling on the couch with a favorite little boy and his blankie. (A personal favorite!)
4. A clean house (because when my hubby and I are both home and working together, we can have the place sparkling in just a couple hours).
5. A fun family outing in the late afternoon/post favorite little boy's naptime.
6. An hour (or so) to myself at the gym followed by a Jamba Juice fruit smoothie.
* Date night. Please note, this may take place on either a Friday
or Saturday night.
* Church on Sunday. And other than choir, no extra meetings!!
* Sunday afternoon late lunch/early dinner meal... preferably something yummy that's been simmering away in the crockpot all day.
* Sunday afternoon naps.
If found, please contact: Jennifer, via this blog.
Now... Here's a glimpse at what our weekend
really looked like.
Saturday:* Got to sleep in a little. Yay!
* Breakfast attempt - bacon, eggs and toast. Bacon looked a little questionable, toss that. Bread that Sean wanted was moldy, toss that. Settle for just eggs and orange juice. Sheesh... didn't we
just go to the store?!
* 11am-2pm - Sean gone for career fair/service project with the youth.
* 2:30pm-6:30pm - I was gone for the YW tri-stake basketball tournament, which included 4 games, some overly-aggressive girls, a group of loud and obnoxious boys that got ticked that I kicked them off the stage (twice) to sit with the rest of the crowd, a couple of missing refs and some hard-core coaches. I'm pretty sure I even heard one of them swear at the ref! This is
church ball people!
* 6:30-8:15pm - I'm still at the church to help decorate for the Stake dance that night (it was just 2 of us to set-up everything, blow up balloons and put up the decorations).
* 8:15-9:15pm - Hurry home (we're about 15 minutes away from the Stake center), change for the dance and pick up a couple slurpees for Shelley and I to sustain us through the dance.
* 9:15-11:30pm - Chaperon for the tri-stake dance, drink bright green punch (it was a Lucky Charm dance for St. Patty's day) and get tracked down by the same obnoxious boys from the basketball game so they can tell me (again) how uncool it was that I kicked them off the stage. Don't they have anything better to do? Get a life boys.
* 11:30pm-12am - Make a grocery store run for milk, bananas and bread. Still bitter about the questionable bacon from the morning and pick up a fresh package along with some Dr. Pepper after it was requested by a phone call from Sean and Stefan (one of the YM in our ward who was over watching a movie).
* 12:10am - Realize the gas tank is on "E" and stop to put $20 in for now. As far as I'm concerned, it's still
Saturday night.
*12:20am - Finally HOME!!
Sunday:* Ethan up at 8:45am... normally this would've been sleeping in, but I was still so exhausted that my eyes were doing that burning thing where it hurts to even have them open.
* Breakfast - Don't even attempt to make anything, even though we have the fresh bacon. Settle for cold cereal and call it good.
* 10:30am - Sean leaves for a YM presidency meeting. Meanwhile, I'm still so tired that I allow Ethan to watch 3 shows on playhouse Disney.
* 11:30am - Sean still gone and now practicing with the rest of the quartet that is singing in sacrament meeting.
* 12:15pm - Sean has choir practice.
* 1pm - Ethan and I actually get to church on time and meet up with Sean. We actually had a pretty good sacrament meeting this week, I mean as far as dealing with a squirmy toddler goes!! I purposely denied Ethan's snack request while we were getting ready for church so he would be hungry during sacrament meeting. Cruel mom, I know, but he sits still while he's eating! My new mom trick: I made Ethan a little snack mix with goldfish crackers, chex cereal, fruit snacks, a few marshmallows and raisins. He loved it! I think all the variety helped because usually we'll pack
just goldfish crackers or
just a fruit snack and I was happy to see that he didn't just pick out all the marshmallows first!
* 2:15pm - Take Ethan to Nursery (which he loves) and it was nice to see him go straight for the toy trucks and make himself at home. Of the 5 kids in there, only he and one other girl
weren't crying.
* 4:30pm - Get home from church and crash! Change into comfy clothes and Ethan goes right down for a nap, no complaining. Sean and I enjoy some of his spicy, cheesy bean dip (complete with the "top secret" ingredient) while reading the paper. Later, we move to the couch to snuggle and share some Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, right out of the carton!
The rest of our evening was pretty uneventful... But still, I think I need a weekend to recover from this last weekend.
And remember, if you can capture my missing relaxing weekend, please return unharmed. Thank you.
Yup. It's a hearing aide to "try on for size". Umm... last I checked, my hearing was just fine. And this isn't the first "elderly" junk mail I have received. I finally had to call a certain retirement community that kept sending me brochures on a nearly monthly basis. Apparently there must be a quite-older Jennifer E. Southworth roaming around somewhere because that's who's mail I get! People, I am only 26. That's 2, 6. Not 126, 96 or even 76!! Can someone please remove me from this mailing list?! Thank you.
"Don't take this the wrong way," he said, "but I think you would kick some serious butt if you were on that show!" This was about a month ago when I was watching an old episode and trying to catch up with the current season. And no, I was not eating any ice cream while sitting there watching it! It's true, I think I would have a decent shot on the show. I'm no stranger to working out and pushing myself (or having someone else push me) beyond what I think are my limits. But still. Me? On a reality show?! Naaah.
This kid is so obsessed with fire trucks, it's not even funny. With living across the street from a fire station, we are quite accustomed to seeing and hearing the fire trucks and ambulances go by. Ethan's ears are so attuned to even just the diesel engine roar of the trucks that when he hears them he immediately stops what he's doing, says "Fire truck!" and runs to the front window to catch a glimpse. Have I mentioned before that he can correctly identify all 3 main emergency vehicles? Fire trucks, ambulances and police cars are all the rage at our house. Perhaps this means we have a future fire fighter or paramedic on our hands?!
I have come to the conclusion that I have lived in Springfield and worked in Eugene (aka Hippie capital of the world) for far too long... I think I am now a tree-hugger. Not in the literal, arms-wrapped-around-a-tree or protesting on the street sense, but a tree-hugger just the same.
But alas, the new bus route is going right down the middle of Pioneer Parkway and thus the majority of those beautiful trees have already been chopped down to make way for the construction. :( I think I need a tissue (made only with recycled paper, of course)!
Apparently the dryer door was not shut all the way, so he had decided that was the perfect place to climb into.
He was quite pleased with himself.
I got a kick out of it too! Silly kid!! :)