Week/end Rewind

I didn't get any other posts up last week other than the wedding weekend recap.  Whew!  It's not even that we were that busy, I guess just enjoying some slow days before newborn days begin again and making the most of being in the house while it's still COLD--hopefully spring will arrive in earnest very, very soon. ;)

We had our usual outings:  Bible study on Wednesday, the grocery store, etc.  I was thankful to see on Wednesday that Asa was so engaged in playing that he wasn't clamoring at the door in distress when moms started arriving to pick up their children from the nursery (like he does on Sundays).  Bible study is winding down.  This is the last week of study, then there's a week of overview and a final luncheon.  It has passed so quickly!  I am hoping to sign up for the Fall Bible study and go whenever Anna Reaghan's (& Asa's) sleeping permits. ;)  Even if I only get to go a couple times, I know enough ladies now that it would be a blessing to me and not feel weird to just pop in now and then.

The weekend:
Friday:  Asa and I had a pretty low-key day around the house.  He napped late in the afternoon which turned out to be great.  A friend needed help retrieving car seats from her husband's car at the airport, and I volunteered Matt's services. :)  It ended up being a bit of a time intensive endeavor, and Matt didn't get home until 10:30!  In the meantime, Asa napped late, had a late dinner, had a fun bath , and then went down to bed late (and slept in Sat. morning--woo hoo!).  My most significant aversion during this pregnancy has been Italian food--well, Italian food in a tomato based sauce.  SOMETIMES lately, I'll think I could probably stomach spaghetti, lasagna, or cacciatore, but I do not write them into our weekly menu because I never know if I'll have an "I could probably eat that" day or a "don't even THINK about it" kind of day.  On Friday, I thought I could probably stomach it, Matt's been missing spaghetti for 6 months now, so I surprised him with a spaghetti dinner waiting on him when he arrived home at 10:30.   Then we fell asleep watching tv.

Saturday:  As I mentioned, Asa slept in!  That rarely happens, even if he goes to bed late (which pretty much never happens at home, because I admit I'm a pretty big stickler about bedtime... I KNOW my child and he will reverse his sleeping if you extended his waking hours ;)).  It was a blessing to get a little more rest before we heard our favorite little boy voice talking over the monitor. :)  We had a list of possible things to do and a honey-do lists for Matt.  He whipped right through it!  First we actually went to a craft show over by where we used to live.  Many of the same vendors were there whom we saw at the winter craft show, including the BOW LADY!  I was SOOO excited!  She makes ADORABLE hair clips, and when we went in the winter we did not yet know if we were having a baby boy or girl.  When we walked into the venue on Saturday, I said to Matt, "Oh!  I wonder if the bow lady is here again!!"  I turned around and was looking right at her booth.  Yea!  I have been saving pictures of lots of novelty bows to make myself, but we bought two that looked a bit more complicated:  a hedgehog clip and a ballerina slippers clip.  If Anna Reaghan is born with as much hair as Asa was, she'll be able to wear hair clips right away.  But just in case, we also bought a few crocheted headbands the clips can be attached to. :)  Our other purchase was two small fabric birds Asa saw and was instantly attached to.  One is made of a shaggy pink chenille--it's Anna Reaghan's, the other is made from a yellow cotton--Asa's.  Although he held them both, clutched to his chest, the rest of the time we were at the craft show and the next 2 stores we stopped at!  After the craft show, we stopped by 3 stores looking at carpet remnants.  We want to put carpet down (not installed, but lay it down) in half of the "finished" basement to make it a bit more cozy.  The first store had nothing that worked for us, the second had a strong contender, and that strong contender turned out to be THE contender after checking the third store.  So when we are ready, we know exactly which carpet we want to purchase.  Asa LOOOVES playing in the basement even now, but I'm also looking forward to having a cozy half of the room to play in.

As for Matt's honey-do list, he completed the final step of setting up my car's homelink to the garage door opener (it involved using a ladder which I figured would be frowned upon at 6 months pregnant ;)), fixed a setting on our tv, and collected our local bank's online access information for me (in the busyness of the move, I guess we never added my name to the account he started when we moved here--it's not our primary bank so it's not a significant issue, but I at least wanted online access until we can stop by the local branch and add me to the account).

Lastly, the GROOM from last weekend called Matt to catch up while driving a moving van to his new home.  It reallllly blessed Matt to hear from Tyson already and they had a great time talking.  Hooray for Tyson & Anne setting up their first home together!!

Sunday:  We went to church, ate a quick lunch at home so we could get Asa down for a nap, looked for a fw things in the basement I needed Matt to bring up for me, and enjoyed relaxing (for me that meant prepping some sewing projects :)) while he napped.  When Asa woke up, we ran to Walmart for a few things.  It is still awfully chilly here, but Asa has been asking to go outside for days, so Matt chased him (and Sammy) around the backyard for a little while when we got home.  I started dinner in the meantime,  and we all ate a yummy chili dinner. :)  Asa is a fan. :)  Asa was asking for a bath as soon as dinner was over (he loves baths), but with it still being cold/the heater running, we try not to do a bath EVERY day for him or his skin gets dry.  We distracted him with an offer to play downstairs in the basement instead (it was met with gusto!), and I sorted through more baby clothes pulling out gender neutral items for Anna Reaghan's closet while Matt and Asa played rice table, ball pit, and Asa raced back and forth across the room with his firetruck Duplo container.  He finished up with some sliding downstairs before we came back up to get ready for bed.  With only one nap on Sunday, he was more than ready and we got him all cozy in pjs, read his stories, and got him tucked in.  Matt and I cleaned up the dinner dishes, made s'mores (yum!) as a special weekend dessert treat, and enjoyed relaxing as the weekend drew to a close.

We both felt like this weekend afforded us lots of fun family time and a nice, slow pace. :)