Rambling on About a GREAT Weekend

This past weekend was one I hope I remember for a long time. Today, when I got to work, I was actually sad that Monday had come. Nothing monumental happened, nothing to make this weekend stand out from hundreds of others. It was just a good weekend. We were up at 8. The plan was to drop Lana and Logan off at the consignment sale, then Jackson and I would go get the tires rotated and oil change along with Dunkin Donuts. The wait at Kaufman Tire was going to be up to 3 hours which I thought was way too long; especially knowing we had to pick Lana and Logan. So we blew off the auto service and hit the donut place! Jackson ordered 5 powdered munchkins. He at 4 and was coated in powdered sugar, almost head to toe. So we drove over to the sale and went in to find mommy. This was at 9:30, the next time we saw daylight was after 11:30! Jackson even said at one point, “Daddy, can we go, I don’t like consignment sales.” To which I replied, “Nobody does Jackson.”

Then we went to Cracker Barrel for lunch. Normally Jackson loves Cracker Barrel, but today, he had requested Wendy’s. Mom and Dad didn’t want Wendy’s so he lost this time. I bribed him with the promise of a pack of big Smarties if he was good during lunch, which he was. He also got to play checkers and play with the toys. Once we got home, I called a neighbor to borrow his ladder to investigate our lack of Direct TV service. I had checked everything but the dish and upon further investigation, we’re lucky the house didn’t burn down during a pretty big storm Wednesday night. Lightening apparently struck a tree, just outside our fence. It blew bark off one side from top to bottom and even left a branch, about 3 feet long, sticking straight up in the ground. It looked like a missile that failed to detonate. The lightening took out phone and TV.
After Jackson’s nap, we decided to play with the slip and slide. We invited Brooke to come up and play with Jackson. They had a blast! And of course, so did we sitting there watching them. It’s amazing how much fun it is to watch you kids have fun.

After that, Jackson played with Brooke a little more and then I cleaned out the gutters, since I had the ladder. We had a little dinner, and after that we put together Jackson’s I Spy puzzle and played I Spy for a while. Soon after, we went to bed.

Sunday was normal, except we had our “Fall Classic” scheduled. Our 5th Sunday schedule includes lunch, afternoon service instead of 6 pm and an open afternoon/evening. The Fall Classic includes a kickball game for kids which Jackson was super excited about. But because of the rain all weekend, it was cancelled. And, because of the rain, we were stuck inside. So we played a little more I Spy, watched a Thomas and Clifford DVD, remember, no TV. We played tackle and then Jackson went to bed.

Not having TV is an interesting thing. I mean it’s one thing to turn it off during the day and do other things, or to have it on as background noise, but to not even have the option, that takes some getting used to. Since Wednesday, we have watched season five of Gilmore Girls and who knows how many DVDs. I finally watched “The Crossing,” a movie about George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas Day, 1776. It was great. Lana fell asleep. After that I watched “the Making of the Crossing” on the special features, might as well, nothing else was on.
We colored, played Wii, did puzzles, read books, did slip n slide with Jackson, along with some of his movies here and there. It was fun finding things to keep busy and I feel like we got know each other again because of it. The DirectTV guy is coming today to repair it so that will be nice, but I hope we can try, every now and again, to have a no TV day or weekend. It was a really great weekend.