This weekend was good and low-key and I’m starting to really appreciate the slower pace of these types of weekends. I also want to tell you that I’m an obsessive list maker and make one for every weekend, but this weekend, I just didn’t. Sometimes you gotta trust that the things you have to do will get done and the things you want to do will happen on their own, ya know?
Friday, we headed home, ate some leftovers for dinner — why do I always forget the totally satisfying simplicity of throwing a brat on the grill? — then headed to the Rockies game. I do not want to talk about the first half of the game or the final outcome, so I’ll just say MATT HOLLIDAY IS BACK!
Saturday morning, after Joey had run 7 miles! — we did a thing I’d been wanting to do all summer… coffee at the Platte River! Every time I run the trail, I look across the river and think how peaceful it’d probably feel to sit over there on a quiet summer morning. So, we biked over to Carbon to grab coffee and breakfast to go (and maybe a mini Lavender Earl Grey donut to share while we waited for our food) then walked over to the steps along the Platte and had the place mostly to ourselves. It was every bit as peaceful as I’d imagined.
I’m not even fully sure what I did for the rest of the day but I think it involved slow-roasting two pints of cherry tomatoes from our garden — 225° for 2 hours but I think I maybe could have gone another hour — and hitting up the grocery store, but also a hammock nap and an early dinner of leftovers before heading to the Esquire.
We saw Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and it blew me away! I knew next to nothing about Mr. Rogers and can’t remember ever watching a full episode of his show, so his complete and utter KINDNESS was a complete shock. I keep thinking back on the footage they had of him working on his show or interacting with children and feeling incredibly emotional. It was so touching, inspiring and important and I hope you find the time to see this film ♥
Standard Sunday Content: every meal I ate and not photo-documenting anything in between. Let’s just come to terms with this, okay? Anyway, un-pictured was a 5 mile run I went on and felt really good during and a bit of house cleaning — you know how they say buying cute workout clothes will motivate you to work out? I think it’s the same with buying good smelling cleaning products 😛 — before my sister and Wayne came over. My perfect little sissy gave me a fun yellow mani/pedi and in exchange, I fed them spicy black bean burrito bowls for dinner. Will I ever tire of this meal? Probably not!
Oh and they brought Huni so she and Andi could have a little sibling reunion and look, I don’t know if they actually like each other but they do tolerate each other and I got a kick out of watching them make laps around the house as if they were magnetically attached.
What fun things did you do this weekend?
Life as Lauren 