Fun Friday

This week's Fun Friday was brought to you by: My Birthday!!!!! 

After Parker and I picked up Violet we headed to the store to buy stuff to bake a cake (ie: box mix and frosting). 

I have a love/hate relationship with the ages of my kids some days. But Friday was a good day, you never know what is going to happen or what is going to trigger a meltdown. Thankfully Violet took a nap at school and was is a great mood. We all walked in to the store without a basket. We only needed a few items and I was praying everyone would behave. We have done this several times before, some days it works some it doesn't!

Anyways everyone behaved and we bought our items and began to make my birthday cake!  

"It's fun to decorate the cake without the boys" 

The most decorated cake!! It was really fun as really good!! 

Fun Friday

This weeks fun Friday was visiting Bryson at work! I'm so glad he works sorta close (depending on traffic), it's about 20-30 min drive.

After picking up Violet from school we drove on over to Greenway Plaza to see Bryson. It is pretty slow in the office on Friday afternoons, so we talked to his co-workers and let the kids watch a show, while Bryson finished up some emails and his typical last meeting of the day. 

Watching Jake and the neverland pirates 

Im really enjoying "Fun Fridays"! It gives me something to look forward to, including the weekend. And it helps me be a little creative to help the kids have fun too!!

Fun Friday

Once you have kiddos, weekends look completely different than they use too. At least for us they do. I mean we weren't big party goers or bar hoppers. But the fact before you have, kids you can stay up late watching a movie and sleep in until as long as you want to, and slowly go about your day running errands or laying around. With our kids, it's waking up at 7am on Saturday and maybe running one or two errands before naptime. Ha! 

Okay back to "fun Friday". When I picked up Violet from school she obviously remembered last "fun Friday" and asked "where are we going?" I told her "home" and she did not like that! Thankfully her handsome surprise aka Daddy aka Bryson had just arrived too! "Yay daddy came home early!!" AKA Labor Day weekend!! So let the fun begin! They watched a movie while I cooked this super easy and delicious dinner: 

Martha Stewart Salmon Pasta

We played games and puzzles after dinner and everyone (including Bryson) wad sound asleep by 8:30pm! I heated up a cup of tea and enjoyed a chapter in a book I'm currently reading. 

It may not sound like a "fun friday" to anyone else but it was well enjoyed by all in this household! 

Fun Friday

This past week the cold/virus that has been lingering in our house finally caught up with me. It first started Wednesday afternoon with a slight tickle in the back of my throat. Then I woke up Thursday morning feeling awful.

Let me tell you, being sick and having to take care of kids is very hard! I knew it was just a cold and prayed it would go away fast. I sorta have a few home remedies that are my "go-to" when a cold pops up. 

For example:

1. Lots and lots of water to flush out my system. 

2. Drinking Shakeology. It has over 70 whole food ingredients and my daily intake of vitamins

3. Green Tea. I had a sore throat so it helped soothe it and well all know green tea has super powers

4. Vitamins. Since I drink Shakeology daily it has all my daily vitamins in it, but when I'm sick I double (maybe triple) on some vitamins. I popped quite a few vitamin C's and made sure to take L-Lysine since I'm prone to cold sores. 

5. Sleep. Actual sleep is one of the best ways a body can recover from being sick. 

6. Essential Oils. "When in doubt use Lavender" Friday night along with Vicks vapor rub, I used few drops of lavender oil on my feet. And Saturday I simmered eucalyptus and lavender on the stove all morning. Smelled lovely! 

7.  Watching "Blue Crush". Okay, no medical research can actually prove this can cure an illness. But this is my go-to movie when I'm sick. I love Hawaii and well those surfer girls are great motivation to keep exercising!  Sadly I didn't get to watch it because I actually took naps and went to bed fairly early. 

Thankfully Friday was a school day for V, so I just had P at home. He played great by himself and enjoyed too much TV, while I literally laid on the couch most of the morning. Bryson offered to stay home, but I knew he had a lot of work and I could manage until V got home, so he planned on coming home early. 

So to the fun part of the day....it was the first full week of school! Yippee! The week was great, Violet got herself dressed every morning, took naps at school, and we were getting the hang of all this! I treated the kids to frozen yogurt!! I mean frozen yogurt makes everyone feel better!! We don't go to frozen yogurt often, so the kids/and myself were so excited! And apparently 100 other moms decided to take their kids to frozen yogurt too, because the place was packed! (Great minds think alike?) 

Fro-yo! 

It was a great time and frozen yogurts healing powers worked (or maybe it was the amount of vitamin C I downed)  because Saturday I felt like a new woman!! 

I absolutely hate being sick. I'm such an on the go person that it just messes up my plans. But this past week did remind me that being sick is a great reminder to slow down. That it is important to rest your body and mind and take care of it.