We took a little trip to Pittsburgh, PA to go to Ikea on Friday afternoon. It was our first time there without the kids, just the two of us. We had a lot of fun and spent 4 1/2 hours browsing around, taking our time because we could. We always leave with a cart or two full of stuff for the house and in our case, our cottages too. After stepping foot in that store, makes me want to redo my whole house and it's fun to plan out how we are going to decorate the Our House Cottage once it's finished. We didn't end up leaving the store until 8:30pm and got home around 10:30pm. One would think that we would call it a night after that but nope, we decided to go have a couple cocktails and some snacks at our local joint up the street. It's fun to be able to just head out whenever we want to, so we did. After a little wind down time, we called it a night and headed home, ready for another fun day ahead.
Actually the real reason for the weekend was to kick-off the Kelleys Island Season with our annual KI Party at Sawmill Creek Resort. It's a time to gather all our neighbors and the island gang together and talk about the upcoming season, make plans and see how everyone is doing after the long winter. We all get hotel rooms next to each other and spend the whole night going from room to room like we were in high school. Lots of laughs and much needed catching up. The best part, being able to sleep in, be lazy in the morning and going out to eat in peace! I can't tell you how nice it was, no really I can't....it was that nice! You're probably thinking, "Did you miss your children?" and my answer is, of course we did. Funny enough, as much bickering, noise and chaos that goes on in my day to day life, when they aren't around, we miss em, like crazy. We talk about em, show pictures of em and say we can't wait to see em but that's what it's all about. They say, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" does that go for your children as well? I'm gonna say yes. When we got home I got lots of squeezes, kisses and I love you's and I soaked up every bit of it. Then.......after about an hour the pestering started, the bickering started and the whining started and I say to myself, thank goodness for weekends away!
Of course those weekends would not even happen without someone to watch our 3 kids for 3 days and I want to say a HUGE Thank You to my wonderful mom and dad for all you do for us to give us that time to just be together, it means so much! Mom and dad, I hope you know we don't take any of it for granted either! You guys are the BEST and we love you lots!
Also Neil's mom is always willing to take the girls for fun sleepovers and trips around town and I want to say a big thank you to you too, Nama! We love you!
Oh we know how extremely lucky we are to have our family live so close and so willing to do all they do for us, we are beyond blessed!
Now here it is Monday, the start of a new week and I'm wishing the weekend wasn't over but it's fun planning the next adventure...whatever that may be?
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