A Long Weekend

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It’s only Saturday night and I’m already exhausted from this weekend!

Last night was Pat’s Christmas party, which was a lot of fun. But in order to pull off this whole weekend, I had to pick the boys up from school, get home as quickly as possible, make a cake, pick up the house, get the boys in the bathtub…and then get ready to go to the party. That said, we had fun.


Then this morning, the boys and I went to the craft market to sit at the booth for the boys school. Then we got home and had an hour and a half to decorate the cake, eat lunch and do more cleaning before we went to Gabe’a last soccer game of the year.

We got home from the game and had an hour to finish picking stuff up, put away all of the fragile things and do everything else that needed to happen to prepare for the party.

Then at 4, 8 extra kids showed up at our house and the entire house was turned into a giant nerf gun war. The kids thought it was awesome. Plus we had pizza, cake, presents and a piñata. Does it get better than that???




The house exploded, but they all had a great time. And then the last two kids showed up just as the party was ending, so they hung out for awhile. By the time everyone had gone home, the bullets were cleaned up (mostly. We’ll see how many Lucy finds after we go to bed!) and the kids were in bed, it was after 9 and we were exhausted. Too bad we don’t get to take the day off tomorrow from life…


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