Is this not the best time of year weather-wise?? It’s fall by morning and evening and still summer during the day. I want it to be this way always! But since it’s not, we’ll just enjoy it while we can. Which means morning walks to the coffee shop, outdoor dinner, sitting outside during someone’s morning nap, back patio dinner plans with your bestie and football, I guess. I was only there for the food 😋

Joey is getting into those longer training runs, so Dempsey and I decided to just meet him at the coffee shop on Friday and he was running up just as we got there! Perfect timing. We spotted some pumpkins on our way there, so October is definitely coming but it’s still sandal weather. My mom got us some of these bowls that stick to the table and it’s been a game changer! This little fruitarian loooooves strawberries and peaches and I love when he eats them because he smells so sweet afterward ❤

We decided to order in for dinner and grabbed Thai from a new-to-us place nearby, called Beau Thai. It was good. Not amazing, but good. Dempsey was going to town on the Pad See Ew and maybe had a little grease mustache 😂 After we put him to bed, we considered watching one of the handful of 9/11 specials that have come out recently but were overwhelmed by the choices and just decided to watch a movie. Joey thought Ain’t Them Bodes Saints was kind of slow (and it is) but I actually quite liked it. The scenes of Rooney Mara and her daughter were so sweet. And we are both big Ben Foster fans.

Joey had a 9:30 AM appointment on Saturday — I booked him a facial and I think he liked it! — and yet there we were trying to fit in sleeping in, a run and breakfast beforehand. Seems like I am always trying to do that 🤔 I was definitely not the happiest about the rush but family running is my new favorite thing and brioche French toast is the best!!! Dempsey proceeded to eat four strawberries, three slices of peach, an entire slice of French toast and three servings of yogurt 😂😍 I loved it! He was maybe holding on to the spoon but then using his other hand to shovel the yogurt into his mouth 🤷‍♀️

I think we filled the afternoon with random chores/lounging and when Dempsey was up in the afternoon, we all took a trip to Ace Hardware to grab some paint samples! We really want to paint our front door a fun color and it’s between blue and yellow. Dempsey was pretty excited about rifling through the samples mostly 😋

Hannah and I hadn’t gotten together just us two since… who knows when! In other words, a one-on-one was wayyyyy overdue. We sat on the back patio at Community and it was so nice! The drinks were good, the food was good, but best of all, the company was good. Ain’t nobody get you like your best friend of thirty years and a fellow mom, right? I hadn’t realized how much I needed that girls night until afterward and I felt so re-energized afterward. I love her very much and all of her Mason stories had me laughing out loud. She gave me my birthday present of a BTS shirt, a necklace of Dempsey’s birth flower and a lip gloss that looks clear but changes color to match your ph level when you put it on. I love it all so much and she is the best!!!

Meanwhile, Joey, Dempsey and Adam were having a boys night out ❤ They had dinner at Cerveceria Colorado, where the Great Mexican Beer Fiesta was taking place. Joey sent me a video of Dempsey watching some Lucha Libre Mexican Pro-Wresting and it was so funny the way he was moving around to get a good view of the match 😂

Sunday started with an annoying breakfast from Stowaway. Guys, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that place makes it so difficult to be a loyal customer. We opted for pick up because we figured it’d be easier to eat at home and we were able to select an 8 AM slot but they don’t even open or apparently look at the orders until 8 AM, so Joey ended up waiting fifteen minutes and then my bread was basically crouton-hard. Oy! Anyway, onto happier things, like the football spread we had at Josh and Rhi’s later that afternoon. Fajitas, carnitas, steak, three salsas, shishitos and dip, guacamole, two desserts… Rhi knocked it out of the park! And Dempsey was being his happiest self, so that’s always fun! Oh and I wore my new lip gloss and it was too cool!

Back at home, later on, we made quesadillas for dinner and I thought the whole wheat tortilla might be hard for Dempsey to get down, but I was dead wrong! He devoured this all + another serving of dilla. I love him! Put him to bed and watched Big Brother to end the night. How was your weekend?

Whew, nothing like a three day weekend to make you feel nice and rested and then jumping straight back into the work week and already feeling a day behind! Plus you have to spend the first half of the day chatting with your co-workers about their weekends, right?? In other words, I have too many things to share and not enough time, so I’ll get right to it 🙂

Usual Friday morning walk to Tennyson, followed by breakfast at home. Dempsey is hit or miss with egg, but I put some goat cheese on his morning scramble and he gobbled it right up. Would you expect anything less from me than raising a Foodie Baby™? 😉

Half of our Friday plans got cancelled — “LOVE when plans get cancelled!” is a real thing this serious homebody said — but we still got to take Joey’s grandparents, Lori and Dempsey to Little Man for ice cream ❤ Joey’s grandma had been wanting to do that all summer long, so I was super happy we finally made it happen. Demps got a little taste of Grandma’s peach cobbler ice cream, that lucky boy! Afterward, Lori stayed for burger dinner and how cute is that teensy burger for Dempsey?? Unfortunately a well done burger slider is a bit crispy and he didn’t have the easiest time eating it but he seemed just as happy with his back up dinner of chicken and polenta 😊

Guys, this (note the time and it happened again at 4:30 AM!), and fighting naps and waking up super early and crying when we put him to bed, are common occurrences in the past week and a half. Plus random bouts of insomnia for Joey and I have me straight desperate to sleep through the night. I know it’s just a phase, but dang, I’m tired 🥱 But anyway, we soldier on! Meaning Joey and I BOTH went on a run TOGETHER on Saturday morning! We hadn’t done that since May of 2020! It was so nice and I’d yet to run with the stroller, so that was a cute and fun experience! Afterward, I made us all pancakes, then headed into Louisville to see my mom for a massage. She asked if there was anything in particular I wanted her to work on and I think I said “just like my brain and my overall mental health” 😂 She really did do wonders for those things and my back too, though!

Post-massage, I zipped over to our office to semi-interrupt the live fantasy football draft that was going on to pick up Dempsey. Imagine, I walked into the conference room and there he was in his highchair at the head of the table and when he looked up and saw me, he pointed at me and gave a big smile. Melted straight into a puddle on the floor over that moment 🥰🥰🥰 I let him finish his lunch, then whisked him off toward home. We played for a little, then I put him to sleep for what ended up being a decently long nap. I was able to get my bearing and clean up a few things, then get a good head start on dinner. Just what everyone wants when it’s 90 degrees out… soup! After Joey was back home and we had all eaten dinner, we took our family walk and Joey and Demps held hands on the way back ❤❤❤

I think Dempsey slept good on Saturday night but I was tossing and turning? Who can really remember at this point. I made us my favorite non-pancake/waffle breakfast of slow scrambled eggs, toast and bacon 🤤 Dempsey and I checked in on our watermelon and our “Creeping Jenny” and we all hung out in the upstairs hallway while Joey started installing the baby gate (it’s time!) and then I made myself lunch and headed out for a haircut. Between the time it takes to drive to and back from an appointment, plus the time the actual appointment takes, I always feel like the day is lost but I made it back home just in time to feed Dempsey and kiss him goodbye before Steve and Lorna whisked him off to Boondocks (where they were attending another kiddo’s birthday party) and then Joey and I started our date night in celebration of our wedding anniversary ❤

First up, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. I’ll be honest, between general Marvel fatigue and just no familiarity with the Shang-Chi character, I wasn’t super excited to see this but I’m in too deep to miss any of these movies now, so we went and… WE LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!!!! It was so funny (Zach Cherry during the bus fight had me literally laughing out loud!), so emotionally grounded, so darn beautiful and the story was easy to follow. We were pretty blown away! After the movie, we headed to Root Down for dinner and we hadn’t eaten there in soooo long. It was all amazing. Got the strawberry shortcake bombe to end the meal and we wolfed it down! Between the movie and the meal, it was just such a great celebration of our seven married years ❤

Dempsey was maybe still awake when we got back home at 9 😬 I think he just wanted to see Mom and Dad before bed 😋 Sounded like he had a fun evening and even got his first balloon! He went right to sleep after they left, so it was no big deal.

Happy Tuesday!