The kids and I packed up Thursday night after a long couple days of parent teacher conferences and headed to Illinois. I had off on Friday, so I decided to drive after conferences. I left with the kids around 8:00. My thought was that they would sleep...they were too excited! They both wanted to play with GramMo, snuggle and get lots of extra love when we arrived.
With a three day weekend, we left Scott to continue to paint trim at our house. He painted the long hall that leads to the bedrooms and the entire living room. This was quite a feat. I think the kids and I got the better end of the deal!!
Friday morning, after breakfast, we headed out for coffee and a play date with cousins. As I pulled up to the coffee shop we always frequent, I ordered and then heard Cohan order a "hot chocolate, not too hot, please." I looked back and he had rolled his window down to order. Wow.
We headed with my mom to meet my cousin, Tara, and her three youngest. There is a new place, ergAdoozy, that is AWESOME in Springfield. I LOVED my mom's idea of trying this place. She knows my kids so well. This cool place is nothing but Melissa and Doug toys for kids to play with. It is amazing. My kids loved playing with GramMo, trying out all the toys and I loved getting lots of ideas for Christmas.
After a full morning, we headed out for lunch...
My mom offered to watch my kids so I could have a night out. I took her up on the offer immediately. Friday night, I met my dad and step-mom for happy hour and planned a night out, with no kids, with a few of my cousins. I haven't stayed out that late/early in the morning in a LONG time!
Needless to say, my mom was a saint the next day. I was tired. Very tired. But, there were sword fights, playing, cousins time, lots of laughing and snuggles. My mom and I LOVE craft shows. We headed out that afternoon to a couple. It was awesome.
That night, we ordered pizzas, celebrated my sister-in-law, Sarah's birthday and had a great time.
The next morning, my mom and dad were pretty adamant that we leave early because there was a bad storm coming. We left quite a bit earlier than I wanted, but I'm so happy we left when we did. But, not before we had to fight Ireland to take her green shamrock beads necklace she wore all weekend off.
The drive home was so scary. There were horrible storms and looking back, we are thankful we left when we did. We drove through two really bad storms where I think my knuckles were white from gripping the wheel. Cohan kept saying, "Why are you praying so loud, Mommy?" This is a picture before I drove into the worse of the storms. Out one window was beautiful; the other...dark as night.
Scary, but thankful we are safe.
Of course we get home and it's beautiful outside...
But outside wasn't as amazing as the job Scott did on the inside. I am in love.
Thanks, Mom for such a fun weekend. Last night when Cohan and I realized we forgot our Sam's purchases, he said, "Let's just go back, you know GramMo will love that... PLEASEEEE???"
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