A Beautiful Weekend!

I have been stressed lately and overwhelmed with all there is to do at work and home. It is my busy time at work with trying to close up the school year and meet all the goals I have set for myself and my students. I also decided to take on a home bound teaching position in which I go to a child's home and teach after school hours. This particular child is too ill to attend school so I teach him in his home 4 hours a week. I am really enjoying this challenge, but it does mean I am away from my own children that much more. I also just began the last stretch of my Master's degree through GVSU. I began this process way back in 2000, but between moving and having children, grad school was put on the back burner. So...I will be writing my thesis this spring as well as taking an additional class this summer. Beginning June 22nd I will be traveling to Grand Rapids two times a week to attend class. The positive side is that I will see a lot of my old GR pals while there!!! Sooooo...I desperately needed a nice relaxing weekend at home with my family! Friday night we had popcorn and sat around watching our favorite PBS cartoons :-) Saturday we met friends for a picnic at the park. The kids had a ball racing around with their friends and showing off their imaginations, but unfortunately the wind picked up and we were forced to take the picnic back to our house. We didn't want to be catching flying napkins all afternoon. We ended Saturday with a walk to DQ and as Sloane would say, "nummy, nummy, nummy"! Today was absolutely GORGEOUS! We have played outdoors most of the day and Aron grilled up the BEST burgers for dinner! It sounds like most of our weekend revolved around food. Good thing I fit two jogs and a killer yoga session into my weekend! I'm off to take the kids to the park (again) before bath time!

Sloane, Russell, and Antonio playing on the horse wagon. Sloane and Alejandro enjoying the double slide together.

Sloane was cracking me up this morning. She lined up all the sippy cup lids and counted them over and over and over again...