the weekender

Wow, I have always been one to try and accomplish things on my days off work or now my husbands days off work, but it is amazing how many projects need to be done. We have now reached a point in our life where the weekend trips and get aways that we did before kids, where we would just get in the car a drive to the beach for just a day or a spur of the moment camping night out, are not longer. One: the babies don't like to spend the day in the car for just a couple hours of running around just to get back in the car and go home, two: gas is ridiculous, and three: there is just too many thing we need to get done around the house! So now, it is the weekend projects. In the winter months it is paint the laundry room or fix the bathroom, new floor in the bed room, remodel the living room or fix the kitchen lights and cabinets. These summer months it has been plant grass in the back yard-check, weed the flower beds-check, build the garden planter-in progress, put up a fence in the back yard-in progress, build kids sand box-next in line, burn brush piles-also next in line, and so on....... On average, four out of five weekends are spent at the house working on projects with a weekend here or there to just get the kids out away from the house for something different for them, with a train ride for my sons bday or a parade and treats, or a trip to the mountains to run around with the dogs. Time seems to go by so much faster when you have kids one day you are holding them in your lap and the next they are running around the yard, playing in mud puddles or starting to talk. Wow