One Weekend Wonder {10} Early Nights
Monday, October 29, 2012 at 9:02PM One Weekend Wonder - {a weekly link-up} - a special moment or experience captured during the weekend. One you want to cherish.
All photos are from the weekend - all taken on my iPhone through the Instagram app.
For the first time in a while, my good camera stayed in it's case, untouched for the entire weekend. It didn't get dragged along with us everywhere we went, and was not constantly turned on. It rested. And to be honest....so did we....
Saturday morning, I awoke still in my emotional funk from the night before. But routine called, so I abided. Breakfasts needed to be made and then cleaned up, ballet bags packed, Halloween costumes assembled {dressup day at dancing}, floors needed vacuuming etc etc.
I loaded the kids into the car and we headed to dancing 40mins early....so Ryder could nap in the car. A scoot through McDonald's drive-thru for a coffee for me, and a hashbrown for Ella slightly fixed my mood. Seeing Ella in her ladybug costume made me smile too. And Ryder waking in a happy mood definitely pepped me up.
Home again at midday. Chris suggested I head out & have a break. Something I've craved and needed so badly for a while now....and there it was...presented to me....no strings attached. He suggested I go shopping SOLO, or go have a coffee or massage. And do you know what? I didn't take him up on the offer. Crazy I know! But I was so tired and cranky and down. All I wanted was some lazy time at home with my 3 Loves! Who woulda thought???
The afternoon cruised on perfecrly thank goodness. Chris whipped up some awesome pizzas for an early dinner. He made the best dough - thank you to a YouTube tutorial :) Seriously Yummy!!
We were in bed at 8:30pm Saturday night! Yep! Eight Thirty!! Saturday nights rock around here these days :))))) We were both stuffed from a long week and too many sleepless nights!
Sunday was a fairly quiet lazy day at home. We had a business friend of Chris's stay over for the night from Sydney as they had a business meeting here all day today. I put together a pretty mean dinner, and Ella dazzled him with handmade presents and letters :) {Just what every successful business man wants I'm sure :) He came here baring expensive wine and left with pages and pages of 4 year old scribble! Lucky man I say!!!}
We needed a fairly low-key weekend. We needed to rest & recover. Some busy weekends are coming our way soon, so we're seeping in the quiet ones while they're here.
And a huge THANK YOU to the comments here and on my Facebook page on my last post. So relieving to know we're not alone with sleepless babies and the frustrating exhaustion that brings. THANK YOU!! The past 2 nights, he has co-slept with us. He's going to sleep in his own cot and then coming in with us at about 9:30pm. He then slept really well for the remainder of the night. Whatever works! Whatever.Works!!!!!!
How was your weekend?
Feel free to link up if you blogged about it.....
Have a great week all x
Reader Comments (1)
A quiet weekend that was well deserved Claire!! We've had many a night here where it's hit 8 or so at night and we've been like 'stuff it, let's just go to bed' :) Great that Ryder slept better with you guys... I am a definite believer in doing whatever works for you for sure!! You NEED sleep!!
Gorgeous snapshots of your weekend x