Weekend Report

Happy Monday!

Of course, it is a generally accepted fact that Mondays are hard. Понедельник - день тяжелый.

It was hard to get out of bed this morning. I am still a bit groggy and discombobulated. 

But… all 3 kids made it to the school bus on time. Everyone had breakfast. I am on my 2nd cup of coffee. 

The weekend felt kind of unsatisfying… Mostly because I escaped into a book every chance I had, resulting in a not particularly productive couple of days. But reading was fun!

Friday was crazy and stressful. First thing in the morning, my daughter called me from school and said she forgot her computer and could I bring it to school. My first reaction was – nope! I got to work! And then I felt bad, because… it happens. We all forget stuff. Isn’t it nice when there is someone who has your back and can help out? Also, the school is only about a 3 minute drive from our house. So, after agonizing for about an hour, and checking my work schedule, and realizing that I didn’t have too much work that morning, I drove to school to drop off the computer. 

And then right around the time kids were coming home from school, things got really crazy at work. One of the clients didn’t like the information I sent her (the information that they requested), and wanted something else, but didn’t provide much guidance on what it was they wanted instead of or in addition to the stuff I spent 2 days putting together. And, of course, they wanted all that RIGHT NOW, so between 3 pm and 8 pm, I was super stressed, snapping at everyone, trying to finish up that project and sending out frantic emails while also taking care of kids and getting dinner on the table. I was hopping mad! With the client, with the kids, with the husband, with the world…

And then I was done… and I could relax… and I felt like I needed an escape, so I read and read and read. I don’t even remember what I was doing most of Saturday besides reading. There was some laundry, there was a soccer game (and my son was pretty grumpy with me because he thought I was reading through most of his game – but no, I actually watched quite a bit!). I made some pumpkin bread muffins to take to the neighbors who were throwing a Halloween party. We went to that party and chatted with other grownups while the kids were playing.

Sunday was Hebrew school, and more laundry, and more reading (I finished the book Sunday night and felt like I had eaten way too much candy in one sitting… It was one of those books – fun to read and you want to see what happens next, but probably would have felt better if I read it over a longer period of time). 

My husband made a big fire in our fire pit, and we had dinner right there next to it, and baked potatoes, and brought out marshmallows for roasting. The next-door kids and their mom came over and brought proper stuff for making s’mores. Then the across-the-street kids came over and also had some s’mores. Then there was a game of basketball in our driveway. Then it was late and getting dark and I had to pretty much force everyone to go home because Monday tomorrow.

And then there was the not-so-sweet ending to Sunday. We usually do a movie night on the weekend. This weekend, it just kind of happened that the movie got skipped but I promised the kids could watch something for 20 minutes if they got showered and in their pajamas super fast. And they did, and they sat down to watch their movie. And then I heard fighting and screaming and crying. It was awful ugly mean nasty fighting between our 2 older kids (power struggle? Jealousy? All of that plus something else? Not sure). I sent the kids who were fighting and screaming to bed. The youngest one stayed out of the fight and got to watch a cartoon with me for 10 minutes. And that was that.

This morning, the older 2 were chatting away happily with each other, as if nothing happened. Our daughter packed up her backpack (computer, water bottle, clay that she needs for one of her classes) yesterday night so that she wouldn’t forget anything.

Did I mention I feel exhausted? I could use a nap (because I stayed up really late on Saturday reading that book and it will take me a few days to get caught up on sleep).