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!

A weekend with zero plans! Finally! Feels nice to be bored sometimes, right? We got to watch some movies, eat some good meals, take naps, go on runs and then my mom invited us over for Sunday dinner and we were finally ready to go interact with other people, so we accepted. Capped it all off with peach cobbler and you can’t ask for better than that!

Started Friday with the cutest bedhead and that outfit my aunt got Demps. I was getting changed when I heard my phone ringing and someone had learned how to open up my contacts and make a call. Oddly, it was to my aunt. I guess we both had her on the mind! Took our weekly walk to the coffee shop and Demps was pretty into the kitties at Denver Cat Company ❤

Ended Friday with another walk to Tennyson for a burger. Lucy’s Burger Bar just opened up and we were really excited to try our first Juicy Lucy. The decor was not exactly my style and their beer selection was truly abysmal but the burger was super good! Demps got to try his first ever grilled cheese and surprise surprise, he loved it, so he really IS my son. We grabbed ice cream at Highpoint Creamery afterward and man, I really want to like that place, but…. I just do not. And speaking of things I do not like… my family has been raving about Pig, so we finally watched and about ten minutes in, I turned to Joey and said “is this really dumb?” and he replied “this is really really dumb.” I’m very worried about my family (and everyone else, based on the Rotten Tomatoes score) now 😋

Started Saturday with some pumpkin spice waffles because I AM READY FOR FALL. Or I am ready for it to not be 90+ degrees during the day at least. Loving the cool mornings right now, though. And Demps loved his waffle just as much as we did! After breakfast, we checked out our garden and our purple Columbine is in bloom again 💜😍 I headed off for a facial and left the boys to play/nap. Later on, we played in our stroller — Joey put Demps in the bottom and he was amused, then quickly not amused 😂 — and took a quick trip to the park.

Not to brag, but I made us a very good dinner! Our pork tenderloin was so small that I think it cooked in about 20 minutes instead of the hour I had planned for it to take but it was so good!!!! Aside from bacon, I am not much into pork but this recipe is just that good! Dempsey was very into the pork and the beets and tomatoes too! After we put him to bed, we fired up The Suicide Squad and I am so confused about this reboot-remake that has some of the same characters but not the same plot? It was okay. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn is the best part of the DC franchise, in my opinion.

Last week, I had made us a Sunday morning breakfast reservation at Stowaway but then Saturday night rolled around and I wasn’t feeling it, so we cancelled. Which meant getting to go on a morning run around the lake and then Joey picked up sandwiches from Wooden Spoon for us! A cute little boy was enjoying strawberries and waffle in the background. Not going to lie, I was kind of in a funk all day and I’m not sure why ☹ I’ve always got a smile for my son though, even when he is standing up in his crib instead of napping or pulling my headband over my eyes 😂

Headed over to my parent’s around 4:30 and Mom had quite the spread for us! Beef tenderloin, boiled corn and a real good tomato salad. Yum! That was definitely the best piece of corn I’ve eaten all summer. Dempsey was having a good time taking a ride on his “magic carpet” aka a blanket my dad was pulling him around on 😂 This is the third time my mom has made peach cobbler, so how lucky am I?? This was the best yet! Back at home, we put Dempsey to bed and watched both Big Brother and Ted Lasso. I just want to be Roy Kent and tell people “NO” when they try to talk to me and I don’t want to talk to them, you know? That little boy was up and inconsolable at 4 AM so I needed an extra cup of coffee today, but what can you do? My mom heard from my uncle in New Orleans and he was without power but otherwise safe and sound! Hope your Monday is okay!