Weekend Update

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

It turned into a really nice weekend, productive, with some fun mixed in. Although I did reach a limit on time for being alone with the kids. Looking forward to next weekend being a 3 day one, with my getting a day with Kim and no kids.

No basketball for James this weekend, at least no game, so Saturday was a day to actually 'sleep in' (which means sleeping until 6:30 or 7 instead of 5:30). I took advantage of the nice weather to attack the front porch, beginning to get serious about the demolition as a precursor to building a nice replacement. Kim went out with her Mom, which meant I ended up with the kids all day. I still managed to get in a walk, and enjoyed the weather. I also organized all of the CD's so we can actually find them now, and also recorded a few more onto the computer as part of that ongoing project. So overall a good day.

Sunday Kim had to work, so I did start to hit the proverbial wall as far as being able to cope with the kids and their various demands, especially Emily, who is having a real hard time cutting her lower molars, making her a constant and insufferable grouch for the last week. I reached a breaking point, threw the kids in the car (not literally) and went to McDonalds to let them run around in the play ground happily for an hour. Soon after we got back Emily did finally collapse so I was able to enjoy some quiet time playing on the computer leading up to Kim getting home and after that for a while.

Then Kim & I got ambitious and took up the entire front sidewalk (just in time for rain and snow all week). All of this demolition kind of forces us to actually do something now in the front, we can't just leave it a mud pit with no sidewalk or porch. Which is part of my plan, sometimes Kim & I have to do things like this to get us to undertake a major project. Now we can at least have a better idea of where we really are when we plan the construction of the porch.

So it was the a good weekend, enjoyed the precursor to real spring weather. And looking forward to more working weekends like this as we continue the project of shaping and reshaping the yard and house.