I Did It!!!

I survived the weekend as a single mom.  With sanity FULLY INTACT!  Trust me....that is an accomplishment!

Every time Super Husband leaves on business I get the dreaded sinking feeling in my stomach.  OMG....how will I cope?  Heck - I used to get that feeling when he left to go to work for the DAY!  Fast forward to the present time and I have to say that juggling a 3.75 year old and 2.5 year old is SO, SO much more manageable than when they were younger.  We actually had fun!  Yes, there were moments that mommy wanted to crawl back in bed or mix a margarita and put earplugs in but overall it was a good weekend.  And to boot a PRODUCTIVE one.  SCORE!

One od my super close friends had a baby less than 2 weeks ago and I have been feverishly working on a quilt to give as a baby gift.  I finally completed it Saturday morning while allowing the kids to watch a bit too much TV (oops).

I am super pleased with the end result.  This is my second quilt and the first time I've attempted to do free motion quilting.  Meaning I used a darning needle and made squiggly lines all over the quilt instead of the straight ones I did on #1 (surprisingly, the straight ones are harder....at least in my humble opinion).

Sorry for the crappy pictures.  Super Husband took the camera with him on his trip so I am left with my phone camera.  I suppose I could have used my iPad...but I only thought of that now.  Oh well.  It looked great after I washed and dried it and it was all soft, warm and crinkly!

I'm thinking of starting another one as I have lots of scraps left over from this one. 

After finally completing the quilt project I pacaged the kidlets up and off to a party at a gymnastics place.  They had a blast!  From there we went for dinner at a friends house (and gave the quilt)!

Sunday we got up and I decided to be brave and take both of them out shopping.  Now, I generally avoid doing this unless Super Husband is with me as backup because there is inevitably a meltdown and nothing gets accomplished.  But damn it, I needed to cross stuff off my growing "to-do" list so off we went.  First stop - Crappy Tire.  To return a sleeping bag that we had bought for Buddy.  We got it home, unrolled it, and realized it was not very high quality so we of course spent more money on a better one.  Sigh.  Returned that and then set off to find a puddle jumper for Little Man (Buddy already has one and LOVES it).  Bingo!  Found one - the last one that was not pink or purple.  And on sale!  Score!  Hightailed it out of there for my favourite store.  Costco.  Oh, how I adore Costco.  Managed to get some new storage bins and snack items before making a hasty exit before meltdowns ensued.  The bribery lollypops can only do so much.

After lunch we gathered our stuff up and set off for Lionel's Petting Farm.  The kids love this place, it's close to home and not only is it FREE but you get to feed the animals your stale bread and wilty lettuce so you don't feel like shit about pitching it in the garbage!  Total win on all counts!  On our way both beasties fell asleep (yes) so I decided to keep driving and enjoy the silence.  As I continued North, I was surprised to suddenly see a mass of cars pulled over and parked.  I mean, we were in the middle of nowhere...what the heck was going on?  So I asked someone walking by and he told me it was an open house for steam trains...little ones.  Wow!  My boys are totally gaga for trains!  SWEET!  So I parked that car then and there and woke up my boys to go see trains.

What a surprise!  It was swarming but we got right in line and after a lengthy wait rode on a mini steam engine!  It was so, so cool!

Afterwards, we continued on to the Petting Farm and then home for dinner.  A great day, overall!  I guess it really is true that it gets easier when they get a bit older.  Hip Hip Hooray!