My Wee One is 10...

Our youngest is 10.  Wah.....Like all parents we wonder where the time has gone.  We had a birthday party for him and brought the gang down to the park where we hadn't been in a couple years.  It brought back a ton of memories of when both our kids were little.  We were at that park at least three times a week back then.  We felt a little out of place today, watching all the new parents there.  On the days when your kids are being weenies, you may question your decision to ever have kids.  But when you are at the park like we were today, those weenie days seem impossible.  In fact, you regret the weenie days altogether.

Meteor Shower and Family Bonding

So I heard there was going to be a magnificent meteor shower on Saturday night.  I convinced my family to go out looking for it.  I enticed them with a beach fire and, for my husband and I, some of our favorite brew. After sitting around the fire for almost an hour, my snarky daughter said, "This is what happens when you believe a Facebook post on meteor showers, mom."  Rude.

I do believe we saw at least six shooting stars after that, two of which were seen by Miss Skeptical.  And in between we had some family bonding time which we needed.  It was fun!

Until the next morning when we realized the lighter fluid bottle wasn't closed all the way and had leaked in the trunk.  Brilliant as a meteor, I tell ya.

To-Do List Follow-Up

Let's see how I did, shall we?...

1. Grocery shop with reusable bags instead of getting plastic ones (CHECK)
2. Collect branches for a craft I'm working on
3. Start a cork project (CHECK)
4. Make invitations for Garret's birthday (CHECK)
5. Take pictures for Garret's birthday party scavenger hunt (CHECK)
6. Buy boots for Kalen (CHECK)
7. Make flag for information picket (CHECK)
8. Bring a load of yard crap to the compost (CHECK)

Branches just didn't happen.  It was rainy and cold most of the time.  I will have to wait for dryer weather.  But all in all I'm glad I completed most of my list.  Here's the cork project I completed.

A little cork board strip.  I found this strip of trim in my garage.  I stained it then attached the corks with hot glue.  Some of the rubbery corks didn't like the hot glue so I used tacky glue for them.  Pretty easy.  

To-Do List For My Long Weekend

I have a 4-day weekend coming up.  Woohoo! 

Here's my to-do list.  Afterwards, I will post on how well I did.

1. Grocery shop with reusable bags instead of getting plastic ones
2. Collect branches for a craft I'm working on
3. Start a cork project
4. Make invitations for Garret's birthday
5. Take pictures for Garret's birthday party scavenger hunt
6. Buy boots for Kalen
7. Make flag for information picket
8. Bring a load of yard crap to the compost

Wish me luck!