Friday!

[mae0111]

We made it!  What's up this weekend?

[waverly]

We have a back to school party tonight and then DD has soccer practice. The party and practice are both at the park district, so she can just walk over.

Then we have soccer games, but only 2 because DS is still written out of sports until Wednesday. His team is actually playing the same time and soccer fields as DD on Sunday, so I will have him sit with his team and talk to the coach.

[mae0111]

This was the first full week of school for my kids, and first full week of almost all activities. I'm getting used to the drop-off and pick-up schedule - consistent for DD2, but all over the place for DD1. With DD1's activities, we have 3 different pickup times each week. Adding DD2's soccer schedule in to this and it was a crazy week.

We had a few issues with DD1 this week, and we finally had to put a crisis plan into place with her therapist. So that's been stressful.

We have a light weekend, activity-wise. DD2's club game was cancelled because the other team couldn't get a team together (coaches have had the schedule for over a month, so the fact that it's come up as an issue so late is pretty frustrating). So just one game on Saturday morning. The weather is supposed to be great and summer-like, so probably hang out by the pool in the afternoons. We thought about heading to the beach house for the night, but we've already closed the pool there so we think the kids will do better at home.

[rere]

I'm still in training and it's brutal and they are 30 minutes behind. I'm out of here at scheduled time for my 1.5 hour drive.

Tomorrow we have to set up and get ready for our annual picnic. Dh has to cook at 4 am Sunday, then I get there at 8 to set up my cake stand.

It's an exhausting weekend and I'm tired already.

[supertrooper1]

Tomorrow is Beau's 2 year old grandson's birthday party. It's supposed to rain, so we'll probably be huddled under tents eating pizza.

Sunday, Beau, his brother, and his son are taking the oldest grandson to our local offroad park for the first time to ride the kiddie trail over and over. I would go too but DS still has no interest in riding. I'll leave it up to DS if he wants to do anything together or just hang out at home. I've been putting off a trip to Costco so we may do that.

[dglvrk2]

This week was good. The weekend could be interesting.....I'm bracing myself for meltdowns on Sunday..

Saturday morning DD2 has soccer in a town about 20 miles north of our home. I will have to pull her early from her game so we can get to DD1's afternoon volleyball tournament in a town 60 miles the other direction. My sister and her family are going to DD1's volleyball tournament and we are going to try to catch some of my nephew's flag football game in the same town as the tournament.

Saturday night, we are heading to a town about 3 hours south of us for H's birthday, which is Sunday. The town has done of the best downhill mountain biking in our state. H a d I love riding. He wants the D's to ride with us for his birthday. I worry the rides will be over their heads and everyone will be frustrated. I am racking my brain trying to figure out a way to set everyone up for success...

[waverly]

dglvrk2, I have to admit, I am really interested in where you live since you guys go skiing and mountain biking all the time.

[twinmomma]

This is going to be a low key weekend, which is what we need after a crazy busy week with late events almost every night.

Tonight while DH is at work I plan to do a DIY mani/pedi and binge some Grey's Anatomy to decompress.

Tomorrow we'll go watch DS's soccer game in the morning even though he's with mom this weekend and that's all I have for plans! I've got some little chores and projects to tackle around the house. The closet in my office is a disaster, so I need to pull everything out and reorganize it all. I want to move some books out of storage onto the bookshelf in the office and tidy that up. And I've got a stack of 400 postcards to write out to mail to swing states for the election, so I'll be working on that off and on all weekend long.

[waverly]

twinmomma, that reminds me I was going to organize what was left of the toys to create sort of by age bins for when we have guests. I never got around to it and then sort of forgot about it/ lost my inspiration.

[sdlaura]

waverly I think she’s in the CA mountains? Because she knows my area (San Diego) too. Is it Mammoth area, dglvrk2? Or Tahoe?

We have some sicknesses in our house which may be Covid - waiting on some tests. DS2 was warm and uncomfortable Sunday but has been fine since. DD has a head cold. Then yesterday DS3 puked on the playground at preschool and got sent home and was headache-y and is home today but feels fine. Last night I had a bad headache and stiff neck and I’m a little headache-y today. DH feels the sickest and has the most Covid symptoms. Given our tons of different exposures to 3 different schools, lots of different activities, and my work travel and both our offices, it’s quite possible we all have different sicknesses or it could all be the same thing 🤷‍♀️ Nothijg catastrophic symptom-wise at least.

So weekend plans a bit up in the air given health and contagiousness status, but DS1 has a baseball clinic and soccer game and birthday party (at least the only family member who feels fine has the most activities). DS2 has a soccer game tomorrow. Sunday is DD’s first games with her new softball team - she’s a little nervous she’ll have to catch for three straight games the first time any of these people have seen her catch outside of tryouts - and the dog’s training class.

Also OMG I just told an external client that a guy I work with works in my location, when he moved to Denver over a year ago! Luckily another coworker/friend in the email pointed it out so I could I apologize immediately. And client will never come to our office so they don’t care where the guy is. I just feel like an idiot. I clearly need to go to the office more!

[erbear]

This week felt like 4 weeks.

DD2 has a bat mitzvah and a birthday party tomorrow. Other than that, we don't have plans, which is glorious. Sunday, both have soccer at the same time so we'll have to split up, which sucks.

[mommyatty]

Saturday is going to be our normal kid stuff. DS has ninja and esports. DD is supposed to have parkour but she seems to have a cold. Her nose is super stuffy and she feels pretty crappy. I have to leave on a business trip at the crack of dawn on Sunday. I come home on Wednesday.

[sdlaura]

DD tested positive for Covid, so pretty sure that’s what the rest of us have, too, even though we’re negative on tests. DS1 didn’t escape it - came home from school and aftercare today feeling gross. Lucky me to have shingles and Covid in the same month - so far shingles was way worse!

[campermom]

I ran 10 miles this am, alone! I haven’t done that in a really long time bc my mental toughness was really shaken.

My dad wants to teach DS how to use his zero turn since my mower is dead. I’ll head to the Dog Swim to close up the pool at my gym, and do a laundry and linens reset at home. I have a few small closet organizations to take care of on this free open day.

Tomorrow is the big one. DS has an away baseball game the same exact time as DD’s away field hockey game. Surprisingly this doesn’t happen often, or they are home games and baseball is so long I can still catch half even after her game is over.

Only one child will have a parent, or anyone for that matter, since my parents are holding an event and all of my village is unavailable. I explained to DS that his season is year long and I’d go to her game-which at a mature 15 he was fine with. However, her friends mom said she also has to miss her son’s baseball game and wanted to take the girls to a big mall afterwards. DD’s ears perked up. I cant drag little DS to a mall, he’s not in a place to tolerate it right now. So she was fine without me being with her today.