Weekend Recap

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

So it ended up being a really good weekend.  Despite Emily getting some bug, then Kim catching it too, and my somehow bustong my phone.  It was good because I was able to enjoy a nice evening at home with family Friday night.  Then got a lot done both inside and outside the house on Saturday and Sunday.  And did all that while avoiding backsliding on my major weight momentum change.

Family

So Satuday Emily was a little cranky in the morning, but otherwise fine while I worked on some cleaning.  Until around 1 when she started throwing up.  After cleaning up, she seemed fine, so we all went out to eat, after which she again threw up.  She seemed to last in the stores, but once we got home the bug caught up to her again.  So she ended up sleeping with us, which led to a restless night for me.  Sunday morning she was definitely still not feeling well, slept a lot, but once she got in a good 2-3 hour nap in the afternoon she seemed pretty much back to normal, so apparently just a 24 hour bug.  Which caught up to poor Kim yesterday afternoon.

Projects

The weekend was focused on 2 things: cleaning house in preparation for Daniel's birthday party on Sunday, and getting things for said birthday party.  Kim is finishing up the shopping today.  Yesterday we cleaned up the back yard, and ended up doing more than usual (our typical M.O. for most yard projects).  We ended up moving the trampoline to the upper yard corner, to open up some space for kids to play away from the patio, and if they want to set up a pool.  Here are some pictures:

Open space

New location

So I was pretty pleased with all of that.  Glad to get things done, even if a lot of the work included the distasteful process of cleaning up animal crap from the many neighborhood strays, and the dog.  But this was the first real clean up like that, and once we get into a weekly cleanup mode it won't be nearly as difficult to get done. 

So it felt good to get all that done.  Unfortunately I had to make a decision to hold off on getting and building new front steps until I can get someone to look at the area where the porch used to be because I am afraid to start ripping it up due to possible structural damage to the door frame.  Which means our front yard projects are on hold temporarily.