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Friday Night:
Had a lovely visit with Mary, the parkway by her home is so beautiful when the seasons change. I miss her when life makes it difficult for us to get together, I am thinking of making it a Friday afternoon ritual perhaps so we CAN get that time in. She is working now, mostly full days from the sounds of it. Teaching and prepping D for NYU and K for graduate school in PA in the fall. It's all such a big transition at the their house, it all seems to emotional to me but M handles it in stride. Luckily, I am getting some good training on how to handle this same scenario with Max in a few years and if it's anything like what I've seen Mary and her family go through, it goes by quicker than is even remotely fair and at some point your kids are grown ups and life changes in a hurry.

After, C and I went out for a drink and a few moments of couple time and Max went over to his buddies for a few hours. Came home, laid on the couch. C was supposed to meet up with me at the house for movies and bed time (Max had early soccer game Saturday) but he ended up over at a friend of his until late and that was that.

Saturday:
Early rise and shine and off to soccer in Englewood. 4 hours of sleep, woo hoo! Great field, beautiful morning and Max played well. They tied the game, which is better than a loss in my book but Max was still disappointed. He was clearly disappointed, but generally in a good mood. Came home, picked up the house a bit and Max went over to Justin's to help with yard work and hang out with Evan. Chance went to school for the afternoon. I had the whole house to myself. whoa.

I had big plans, but I ended up: napping; taking a bath, doing yoga and snuggling my pets. I then got on the phone with my Aunty MB since I had a few moments of quite time before C got home and chatted with her a bit. It was her Birthday yesterday (Happy Birthday Aunty) so I'm glad I got at least a few minutes in with her.

C got home, I got off the phone and we had a wonderful evening. I can't remember the last time we had that kind of alone time together, we talked and snuggled and laughed and drank wine and it was good. We had some conversations that needed to be had and made some choices together that I feel really good about!

Sunday:
Up bright and early again on very little sleep, shew I'm exhausted on this day! C went on an all day adventure with Andy and I took a nap (again) and watched Evan most of rest of the day while everyone else was out running errands. He's so sweet, except he's overly fascinated by anything I might be drinking and kept sticking his little hand in my water glass. That gets messy real quick. Kasha also came up and snatched one of his graham crackers right out of his hand! That made him cry and then she moped around and made that face like she's being abused and went and hid in the blankets on the couch. He then wanted to 'share' all of his food with her which obviously was a problem so I had to put her outside and then all hell broke loose for a moment (Kasha unhappy about being outside, Evan unhappy about loosing his new friend) which was all easily redirected with a choo choo train and a goofy aunt running up and down the stairs. I then fed the little booger some glazed carrots (yum) and potatoes and he had some chicken left over from one of Max's dinners and next thing you know Mom and Dad are their to pick him up and he's gone again. I like being an Aunty, that's not such a bad gig if you ask me.

Max went out and played with his buddies the rest of the afternoon and I watched "Americas Next Top Model" marathon until C got home. And napped a bit more too. I have recently discovered the power of napping and how 20 mins here and there can make a ginormous difference. Historically, I've not been able to nap or sleep in as soon as the sun comes up...but if conditions are just right, I can nap quite well for short periods of time now.
C came home exhausted from his day trip with Andy and we watched 'The Last King Of Scotland'...well sort of, we mostly just laid there and snuggled. Then it was off to bed.

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Then I woke up to the alarm and my phone buzzing off the night table
~ yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn ~

It was a great weekend though I didn't get much done around the house as planned, the yard is in dire need of attention. I have some major weeding to do, the lawn needs to be mowed and the back patio is in desperate need of a good cleaning/sweeping. All of these things may have needed to be done, but I think I got exactly what I needed to have done and that was spending time doing what I wanted to do for me.

Non-Work Related Goals for this week:
a) Sleep each night at least 7 hours
b) Yard work
c) House work
d) Grocery shopping
e) Half hour - hour of yoga 3 nights
f) Get Max's bike to the shop
g) Further research online free university
h) Get budget in order for next 3 months and plan to purchase airline tickets (Mexico, TN)

Happy Monday All!

Song of the day:
Norah Jones - Be Here To Love me