The end of the weekend

Well, Heather is sitting at the Philly airport…delayed. I feel so bad for her – after traveling to Boston for ESS this weekend, to be stuck an hour from home, with a three hour delay – yuck. Hang in there – I know you’re reading this – there will be a drink waiting for you – email me what you want!

Maybe all the anticipation and nervousness that I had going into this weekend made me bring my “A” game, or maybe I was just able to relax and enjoy things. Whatever the situation, despite everyone missing Heather/mommy a lot, we had a great weekend with me and my three children.

This morning started off better than yesterday with Meera waking up bright and chipper. When I went in to get her, she said “mommy home” right away, but when I said “mommy’s on a work trip”, she nodded, smiled and clicked her tongue “yes”. All good. And, yes the highlight of the day – Jarran Walker will show up later in the post.

We played with the train, had some breakfast (cereal this morning) and got busy playing. Had a very fun morning playing inside and out – Meera in particular insisted that we go “iiide”. A little basketball, a little swinging, a little bike riding, a little sandbox action. Before I knew it we really needed to get Missy down for her nap. She had no interest in a bottle or nap, but when I finally saw her stare off into space – scooped up – up to her room, bottle and rocked to sleep for her nap. Lovely, it really really was.

K & O and I played a little more, then we watched Curious George 2 (again). We also had left over pizza for lunch. Kinda like a true “men’s day”. Kinda. 😉

Then… it was time… for….

Jarran Walker!

Heather set it up for Jarran to come by from 2-4 to give me some relief. At the time, I was very very feeling like I would really really need this. But honestly, when he arrived, I was fine and would have been happy to not have had him come. I feel pretty good about that.

But man ‘o man did the boys feel glad he was there. Jarran made it into both boy’s prayers tonight: “Dear God, thank you for Jarran Walker. It was so fun playing basketball and baseball and football with him.”

If Jarran is not worn out, I will be shocked – he certainly wore K & O out. the Yawns going on before bed were amazing – Owen in particular. Wow. They posed for this shot in between innings:

After Jarran left, I went inside for a minute (to get something, put something away, I don’t remember), and when I came out – the three bambinos were walking along, hand in hand, not a care in the world. Lovely.

After a huge spaghetti dinner, all three were happy to have a bath, and go right into bed. So, so, so tired.

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What a great weekend in so many ways. It’s not just that I had tremendous bonding with my children. It’s not that I now know I can do it. It is those things, but it’s more. It’s that I can relax, enjoy my kids here at home, and discover how wonderful they really are.