What a nice weekend! Sometimes I need a weekend like this one to regroup!  It's nice to be able to shut off the world and just focus on family! We literally relaxed on our new screened porch, went swimming, and cooked out! No TV, very little social media, No phone calls, we even played hooky from church! We didn't see anyone really and it was an excellent "get away" at home!

Since I mentioned we went swimming let's talk about how fun it is to get two kids ready to go to the pool (or anywhere for that matter!) Lets just start with putting sunscreen on the kids.  They squirm, whine, fuss, suddenly their little tiny bodies become freakishly stronger than yours and you're getting beaten up by an 11 month old for trying to protect her skin from peeling off later on! Then putting on their bathing suits! Why oh why do they not make snaps in little girl bathing suits so diaper changing wouldn't be so difficult??? Then you have to get yourself ready and get the bags and snacks packed! Then when it's finally time to get in the car, one is screaming and arching her back and refuses to let you put her in the car seat and the other one is half undressed (after spending all that time dressing the kid) just from the walk from the house to the car he has lost a shoe and a shirt??? So we get to the pool and set up shop and Carter decides it's so much fun to throw everything in the water (who needs dry towels anyways?) It's time to get in, to my surprise Emmy Grace loves the water she could stay in there all day, making friends and stealing their toys and hoarding them in her float! Then there is my sweet Carter who has always ALWAYS loved the water, but has decided this year he HATES the water! Like I will scream so people will hear me from miles away if you put me in this water hate! (Have I mentioned the kid begs to go swimming??) So he decided he would just walk around the baby pool and torment everyone else's belongings and throw them in the pool! (Nope not embarrassing or frustrating what so ever!) To say the least our pool experience was stressful this weekend, and we hope he is over it before vacation at the end of this week!!!

Thankful for being able to spend some extra quality time with the family this weekend, even if at times I wanted to sit poolside and have a good cry! Remember those days when you woke up late, threw some clothes on, grabbed a towel, slapped some tanning oil on, laid out and didn't have a care in the world? I actually don't miss those days! I wouldn't trade the most stressful day for that life of no responsibility! Life is good!