The kids and I were off yesterday, so we got to enjoy a 3-day weekend. Husband is in CA at a conference, missing all the fun.
Here are the highlights:
- Visit to a public observatory. As in, star-gazing, moon-watching, telescopes, and all that good stuff.
- Korean food take-out.
- Hike through the snow-covered trails and sledding with kids. Sledding was meh because the snow consistency was a bit off. But overall, a fun way to spend the morning!
- Natural history museum that we haven't been to in ages. C, our youngest, has no memories of it (she was a baby last time we visited) but the older 2 remember being there. It was fun to see it again and they had an awesome live-animal exhibit with a tarantula, various snakes, frogs, and a sloth.
- Chinatown
- Kids being independent and meeting up with their friends. I dropped the girls off in town where they got together with H's friend. I ran some errands, then joined them. This was the first time H+C were on their own, without parents or big brother - buying treats at Trader Joes, going to Wawa, walking over to the park. In the meantime, the big brother, E, biked over to visit his friend in the neighborhood.
And now to the not-so-fabulous news. Noting terrible, just not ideal: weight gain. My pants feel too tight. My winter jacket feels too tight. I guess I have been stress-eating. Or reading-eating... I like to snack when I read and I've been reading a lot these last couple of months. I don't know if there is a good way to resolve this (other than stop reading). In the meantime, I am going for a brief a wintery hike in sub-zero temperatures (before the mud has a chance to melt in the February sun).
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