I spent last week hanging out with my family while Matt stayed home and worked. I love the freedom being a teacher brings. Trust me, there are many days that I would love to leave school and the kids behind, but for what I'm making (not much), you can't beat the vacation time! I told my mom I had second thoughts about driving down when she kept saying "it's just going to be me and Kayleigh when Jonathan and Chat move into their apartment." I'm glad I went anyway.
Monday we dropped Chat off at the new apartment so she could get everything put away without two children under her feet. Jonathan helped when he got off work, so I didn't see him until that night. It's fun watching the cousins playing together, though Nathan doesn't really get in on the action yet. He is so cute when he is walking. I knew that he had started walking, but it was still a bit of a surprise to see him walking toward me! Barbara and Jack also stopped by for a few minutes. They left the next day for their vacation that Matt and I are once again jealous of!
Tuesday Chat and I and the kids went to check out a coffee table she found on Craig's list. Unfortunately it wasn't right for them, though. We went to Chick-fil-a so the kids could play on the playground for a while and to just get out for a bit. Jonathan came to the house after his shift and they packed up the rest of their stuff and that night they started sleeping in the apartment. Mom, Dad Kayleigh and I went to Carmelitas for dinner. Kayleigh mostly ate chips and salsa for dinner. The first basket of chips were all white tortilla chips except for one red one that I told Kayleigh was her special chip. I think she saved it for last. The next basket had white, blue, red and green chips. I've never seen that at a restaurant. I ordered the mexican pizza, which I thought would be the size of the one you would get at Taco Bell. No, it was more like a medium pizza! I am sad that I didn't eat my leftovers. Hopefully they don't go to waste. It was good!
Wednesday I took Kayleigh over so we could swim for a bit with Chat, Mia and Nathan. Ok, swimming is an exaggeration. The kids kicked while we kept them from drowning. :) The pool was really nice and clean. You can never be too sure about community pools, but it seems like their place keeps up with it. Chat fed the kids snacks at the apartment while I ran to Burger King to pick up lunch. I'm sure it's the same with all young kids, but don't turn your back on your fries with Mia and Kayleigh around!!
Thursday was Jonathan's birthday, so mom and I went to see him at Chick-fil-a and Kayleigh played in the play area for a while. I made plans to have dinner with 3 girls that I graduated high school with, so I missed his birthday dinner. I did get to go see my grandma for a nice visit. She is doing so much better than the last time I saw her at Easter. Grandma did say that she is ready to get out of there, but that just isn't possible until she starts walking and gaining more of her strength. I had time to browse Target before meeting Alison, Kelli and Polly for dinner at Outback. Yum! Kelli offered to get us a Bloomin' Onion and Alison bought dessert. I think if I had played my cards right I could have gotten dinner out of Polly, I just didn't have enough time to work my magic! :) Mom was nice enough to give me money for dinner, though, so I really can't complain. We were there until after 10 o'clock sitting and visiting. When I got back to my parent's house I realized it was my last night there. The week just went by so fast and if I didn't have plans for this weekend I may have stayed a while longer!
Kayleigh slept in an extra half hour, so I was able to get my stuff packed before mom got home from Grandma's. Mom called and asked what I liked from Panera for breakfast, so I got to enjoy a cinnamon crunch bagel if you were wondering what I like too! I played with Kayleigh and read her a few books before getting on the road again.
I'm a bad aunt and didn't take pictures like I said I was going to. I guess I needed Matt there to be the photographer!
3 comments:
Good job Aunt Val!!! What a blessing you were to your family in helping out and now you've had a crash coarse in parenting! =) It was SO good to see you and catch up. Just let us know when you're moving back here okay?
With all the ups and downs last week, I don't know what I would have done without you here!!!! It sounded like a simple time but there was a lot of action. Again to Matt - thank you for letting her come down for the week. You get a double batch of peanut butter cookies next time. :)
Whew!! I'm sad that you didn't take pictures, though! Maybe you're just trying to hide the evidence from Kayleigh's parents??
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