Hello buddies!
Looks like Monday, nevertheless it’s Tuesday! I hope these of you right here within the U.S. had a pleasant lengthy weekend as we honored those that have given their lives for our nation.
The climate was fairly good right here within the DC space so we made certain to get out and about rather a lot! One of many highlights was a household journey at Huntley Meadows Park, which is one among our native faves.
It took us FOREVER to get out of the home for this journey and by the point we lastly left we had been all feeling fairly irritated, however fortunately the woods had been a pleasant reset and everybody had a good time as soon as we had been there.
I did handle to overlook Wes’s solar hat and his sneakers, although, womp womp. Fortunately a superb portion of the stroll is shaded so his head didn’t find yourself getting burned! There are simply too many issues to recollect when leaving the home with a number of youngsters…
By the best way – are you able to consider he will probably be 1 12 months outdated tomorrow?! How time flies.
Wes continues to be on the 2 nap state of affairs so any household adventures normally occur proper after lunch vs. within the morning.
The upside was that by the point we acquired there it wasn’t too crowded since lots of people had most likely already come and gone!
It was trying actually lovely and inexperienced on the market, and we noticed a lot of cool stuff – snakes, turtles, frogs, and fish. Riese was tremendous into it.
My mother acquired us a new travel stroller (per my request after doing a whole lot of analysis – additionally fyi that’s an amazon affiliate hyperlink) for Wes’s birthday, and we examined it out whereas we had been on the market. Extremely advocate!
It handles like a dream, the wheels did nice on the paths, and it folds down good and small – a lot smaller than the outdated umbrella stroller we had when Riese was this age.
It will likely be superior to have this to maintain within the automotive for adventures, and in addition for any journeys we take involving an airplane because it’s sufficiently small to hold on!
Different highlights from the weekend included a visit to the farmer’s market on Saturday morning – I popped out for a yoga class whereas Wes was napping and went to the farmer’s market after because it’s proper by the yoga studio.
Cherished seeing all of the colourful summer season produce! I stored it easy and acquired some mini cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, and microgreens.
The microgreens are scrumptious on high of eggs, in sandwiches, added to salads, and so forth!
We had some on high of a selfmade frittata (mushrooms, bacon, and peppers) with a facet salad for an early lunch earlier than our hike.
Saturday night we didn’t really feel like cooking so we walked the children over to Night Star Cafe.
Matt and I shared the heirloom tomato salad to start out, which had capers and olives and was tremendous scrumptious:
After which I had the burger and fries, plus some bites of salmon that we acquired for Wes.
Sunday’s huge spotlight was a run date with Kathleen and Sarah, my faculty buddies.
I’m excited to say that operating is beginning to really feel much more snug once more, even regardless of hotter temps! I acquired in a run with a pal on Monday morning as nicely simply round our neighborhood and I’m loving getting on the market extra typically once more.
On Sunday, the women and I ran on the Mt. Vernon Path. At all times a favorite.
Love these views of town throughout the river!
We made a toilet and water pit cease at Columbia Island Marina. Lovely there, too! There’s a bar and grill right here that I wish to check out someday – appears enjoyable and child pleasant!
4 miles – verify!
On Monday, we hosted a Memorial Day BBQ – Matt invited some buddies over final minute on a whim and to our shock, everybody was out there! It ended up being a whole lot of enjoyable and it was nice to see some buddies we hadn’t seen in fairly awhile.
Between all of us we had a 4.5 12 months outdated, a 2ish 12 months outdated, two virtually 1 12 months olds, and a 3.5 month outdated. The youngsters all did rather well – particularly Riese who was very candy with all of the little youngsters.
This time final 12 months we had been in a section the place it was exhausting for us to produce other youngsters over as a result of Riese would act out rather a lot, however we appear to hopefully be previous that which is superb. (knock on wooden…)
Matt fired up the grill and made burgers, canines, and a few rooster and veggie kabobs, and our buddies introduced pasta salad, a quinoa salad, and a few mozzarella and tomato with basil!
My plate! Every part was fairly yummy.
One final spotlight from the weekend is that I began a brand new guide that I’m SUPER into. Isn’t that the very best, when studying appears like a pleasant escape?
After studying and loving The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, I made a decision to strive one of many different books from that creator and began A Darker Shade of Magic, which is the primary guide in a trilogy of hers. I already know I’ll be studying the entire trilogy! (FYI, these are amazon affiliate hyperlinks)
It’s a fantasy/magic kind guide and she or he has created an interesting, intricate world. I already can’t wait to learn extra of it earlier than mattress tonight!
What did you do that weekend?
What’s the very best guide you learn just lately? I’ve extra fiction suggestions in this post, if you happen to’re !
