Our Weekend: A Picture Essay

It was supposed to be an easy week at work, but somehow we both ended up getting home at 8:30 tonight, which was really inconvenient for the soup on tonight's menu that needs a half hour to cook. Oops. So while it cooks (and we try not to eat each other), I'll tell you about our "relaxing" weekend.

And by "relaxing," I mean not. We started out Friday night at Jason's hockey game, which was the first one I've been able to attend. Go Red! (Jason is Number 4).

On Saturday, we hit the farmer's market for the first time (asparagus, mmm...), then spent the morning spending our life savings (or what is left of it) on perennials for the flower bed in front of our house. Much nail biting (on my part) and patient waiting (by Jason) was involved--I am no expert on picking things for a flower bed that we hope to last for years!

In the afternoon, we went to visit Calvin and Clark, who are already a month old! Somehow I've never managed to take pictures when I've hung out with them, so Jason made sure we came away with a few good pics of the boys. They are darling and so different...and I've missed Dawn, so it was good to get caught up!

With Baby Clark

Baby Cal

It was late by the time we got around to dinner. We've been working hard to stay in a budget, and the fact that we had $1 remaining in our "dining out" budget meant we had to get creative if we wanted to eat good Thai food from our favorite restaurant on Saturday night! We had stopped at the Thai grocery market connected to the restaraunt earlier in the day and purchased the ingredients for Jason to make pad see ew. It was the first time tofu had crossed the threshold of our house, but it turned out fantastic. And not just because we were starving.


After church on Sunday, we went straight home to put on gardening clothes and sunscreen. We had stayed out until almost 9:30 Saturday night, trying to get "one more plant" in the ground before it was too dark to see, but we ended up doing most of the work on Sunday afternoon. The flower bed has been a slowly-growing project--the first year we lived here, we expanded it and planted tulip bulbs. Emboldened by their success, last year I planted three additional perennials...which looked horrendous and very lonely. So this year we bit the bullet and filled it all out. No flowers yet, but here's the old version:


And here's the new version:

I'm cautiously excited.

The sixth thing I love about recess is that we can go into the weekend without being exhausted. Even with all this work, we felt like it was a pretty relaxing weekend after all.