Vibes were weird this weekend 😅 Everyone was just in a strange mood and things didn’t go according to plan for one reason or another, but what can you do? Still, I made a pie, we bought backyard flowers and got them planted, celebrated Landon’s birthday, went to the Farmers’ Market and actually managed to tuck our two kiddos into bed before 8 PM last night.

A kitchen Friday for me, as I made a strawberry rhubarb pie and then, once the kids and Joey were home, we did homemade spaghetti noodles for dinner. Extremely stressful to keep an eye on four sets of fingers that I don’t want to get too close to the pasta attachment as they both insist on doing it themselves, so most of the noodles came out ramen-style but what can you do? They actually ate it this time too! Afterward, we started GOAT and ate our pie à la mode. It had soooo much liquid inside but Dempsey ate his entire piece and told me “your pie was so good, Mom! Even better than the ice cream,” and it made me so happy 🥹🥰

A Saturday of big feelings and big celebrations 😅 We had weird waffles for breakfast (I think I might’ve mis-measured the flour 😂) and then got the kids dressed, so we could go buy flowers for the backyard. Selection was so sub-par but we did our best. The petunias are LEGGY! Dempsey helped me lay everything out, then plant it all and Lydia mostly threw a huge fit over me not letting her have a second popsicle. After lunch, I got her down for a much needed nap and once she was up, we gathered ourselves up and headed over to Landon’s birthday party. It was a good time and Joey got thee funniest photo of the birthday boy’s dark blue lips and tongue from his frosting 😂 Happy Birthday, Landon! Got back home and the kids wanted soup dumplings, which I actually did have in the freezer. They don’t even know how good they have it! Then we put them to bed and watched some of the season finale of SNL.

Why was Sunday a million years long?? We took ourselves to Paperboy for breakfast, went to the Farmers’ Market and visited the neighbors’ lemonade stand all before noon then had just so many hours to kill afterward. Paperboy was really good but they had the AC blasting, so we had two very cold, very whiny children to tend to 😩 The FM was crowded as always, but at least we weren’t in a hurry. They had cherries and peaches already?! The rest of the day involved salad making for me, hydrating socks for the kids, the rest of GOAT (hey, I kinda liked it!), a robot craft for Dempsey and I and dinner before bedtime rolled around. Dempsey fell asleep “reading” a book again and why is that the cutest thing??

This week is for concert prep, — I gotta break in my new shoes and listen to ARIRANG 1000 more times — Spirit Week and Field Day at Dempsey’s school and making it to my Friday manicure without breaking a nail 😅 Happy Monday!

I have a forever cold, but sore throat, headache and inability to breathe out my nose aside, I had just the best Mother’s Day thanks to my husband, who literally took care of everything, and my sweet kiddos, who were so excited to shower me with love and gifts 🥹❤️ Plus Emily was in town, so we’ve had some really good family time together all weekend!

I worked from home on Friday and then Lori brought the kids home — Dempsey made that poster for me at school and I actually AM good at finding stuff but he nailed my favorite music! — and we concluded the day with leftovers and a movie night. Watched Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie in its entirety and it had a handful of solid laugh lines, so I’ll take it. Plus the kids had a lot of fun watching it and eating their popcorn. I dreamed of a life like this 🙌 Got them to bed and watched one of our shows before going to bed ourselves.

Saturday was such a good day. I snuck Dempsey out of his room so we could let Lydia sleep in and he loves doing that so much! Dempsey “worked,” while I made us some sourdough pancakes and then when it was clear we weren’t going to be taking Lydia to her swim lesson — we actually cancelled them but had paid through the month, so we thought we might finish it out but she wasn’t having any of it — Joey took both kids to the grocery with him for Mother’s Day brunch items and then we met my mom, Emily, sis and Wayne at Vine Street for lunch! It was really good and the kids actually behaved 😂

Afterward, we went to the Botanic Gardens and it was a bit busy because they were having their annual plant sale but we had a great time! We stayed till 4:30 then headed home for dinner, baths and bedtime. I thought Lydia was having a meltdown because she was overtired but I think she might have a bit of a cold too. She woke up at 1 AM, watched TV downstairs with Joey until 3 AM, then bossed me around until she finally fell asleep on the floor of her room at 4:30 AM!

Happy Mother’s Day to me, also waking up on the floor of the kids’ room the next morning 😂 I relocated to my bed, so Dempsey could “wake me up” and surprise me with the gifts he and Joey had set up downstairs. They spoiled me so much 🥹🥰 Joey and my sister also really knocked it out of the park with brunch. I literally didn’t lift a finger! We had such a nice time, I hope all the moms felt loved because I know I did. After everyone headed out, I took Lydia and myself upstairs for a much needed nap. Meanwhile Joey and Dempsey cleaned up tree branches that broke in the snowstorm last week for three hours. Those boys LOVE an outdoor clean up project! I’m grateful because… I do not 😅 They even took out all our porch furniture so we got to have dinner al fresco, my favorite! Played outside until bedtime and Lydi had a much better night sleep, thank goodness.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!