Since work gave me a holiday, I was looking forward to stretching my standard weekend of doing nothing over three days.  It looked like a daunting task, but I was willing to take on the challenge.  Until Friday morning.  I woke up with some amazing pain in my stomach.  The rest of the day I spent curled up in a ball on the bed.  A paid holiday and I’m laying in the bed hoping to puke.  Blah.

Fortunately, by Saturday morning, I was feeling a little better.  I was pretty weak from not eating at all on Friday, but it didn’t take me long to get out of the slump.  First thing Saturday morning, we all went to the playground.  After some follow-the-leader, we took a tour of Mt. Zion’s cemetery.  Butterfly likes to stand up flower containers that have fallen over and Ladybug likes to just walk around like she owns the place.  After a brief snack at the house, the girls and I washed the dogs.  Immediately after we got done drying them, they ran to a pile of sand and rolled around.  So, we decided to wash the cars instead.  Butterfly helped by rubbing her rag around on everything that she could.  Ladybug took the hose and sprayed everything possible.  Flowers, grass, trees, bricks…herself…me.  Then came lunch and rest.  After everyone rested for a few minutes, we loaded up the van and headed to Rickie and Sheri’s for a cook-out with some friends.  We celebrated the holiday, combined with my upcoming birthday, by swimming, grilling, and then running around the Baucom’s house like wild animals.  Well, the kids ran around the house.  I sat by the pool and made up games for Gabby and Noah to play.  and then we rested.

Sunday morning was church.  Afterward, we had lunch and Ladybug was tired.  After a small protest, she let me rock her and put her to sleep.  I still love the feeling of her soft head lying on my shoulder.  When she drifted off, I took Butterfly to help me find a Father’s Day present for my dad.  (I don’t know what prompted my mind, but I suddenly realized that I hadn’t gotten on for him. Sorry, Pa!) We played more than we shopped.  We had a fun time.  When we got home, the girls and I made “surprises” for Kelley while she went grocery shopping.  We capped the evening with supper on a picnic blanket with a movie.  The girls loved it.  Kelley and I decided that Dora is one of the slowest moving shows on the planet.

So, that was the weekend and I didn’t do anything that needed to get done.  But I accomplished a lot.