Wow, what a lazy weekend Carter and I had! I hardly got anything done this weekend, but for some reason I feel like it is okay. As if I’m entitled to a lazy weekend every now and then.
So on Friday I went tanning right after work since Matt said he could pick Carter up from daycare, and I really need to get some color on my legs before my friend’s wedding that’s coming up in two weeks. Normally I wouldn’t care, but I’m a bridesmaid and I have open toed shoes, so I won’t be wearing hose and I don’t want to blind everyone…literally, I would. Anyway, by the time I got home it was about 5:45 and just as I walked in the door, Matt was coming in from the backyard and said “Jerry says we have to be over at their place to eat at 6:00”. Originally, I had planned to go over to our neighbors’ house for a patio fire, but the dinner plan was new to me. Turns out that the family members they expected to come into town for their daughter’s graduation couldn’t come after all, so they had a bunch of food they needed help eating. Since I never feel like cooking dinner these days, I was totally on board with helping them solve their little dilemma. So, we ate dinner with the neighbors and then stuck around for the patio fire and a couple rounds of mint julep – okay, I only drank from the bucket once, but Matt took full part in the festivity.
Saturday morning I toted Carter to Target with me to load up on some extra bottles for pumping as well as some new pacifiers since he’s reaching his three month milestone and they’re supposed to be replaced every 3 months. I know, it’s probably just a scheme to get the paranoid mothers to buy new pacifiers every 3 months and obviously I’m such a mother. Anyway, I already love the extra bottles, as we’ve been exclusively bottle feeding breast milk for about a week now. It was working out so nicely except for all of the bottle washing I was doing because I didn’t have enough bottles to be pumping a couple extra times each day without reusing bottles. Now I only have to wash bottles once each day. Yay! 
Anyway, my parents came up on Saturday morning to see us since they’ve been out of town so long for Dad’s work. Carter was sleeping when they got there, but he eventually woke up from his nap and they were able to get to spend some time with him before heading out for a birthday party being held in Lincoln that afternoon. Meanwhile, Matt got the yard mowed and worked on the garage siding. Matt’s brother Jamee was nice enough to come over to help, and our neighbors, Gino and Donny, came over with their little “from a distance” leveling tool (I know the tool has some cool name, but I don’t know what it’s called). Before long, the side of the garage was finished – only 3 more sides to go! Of course, we’ll have to scrub the siding down and paint it after that (Matt found it at a great deal, but it’s stained to look like wood). That part should go fairly quick with the paint sprayer we bought and used to paint the house last fall.
Saturday evening, it was off to the neighbors again for another dinner to help them with their food surplus. At least that was the plan for Matt and Carter. I had a bachelorette party to attend which I turned into a designated driver for since I’m not drinking these days. Fine by me though as I got home around 1:00am, to bed around 1:45am (since Carter was ready for a bottle at 1:30), and was back up at 6:00am with our little man. If I had drank too much, that would have been pretty painful. And luckily, Matt was willing to get up at 4:30am to feed him and let me sleep…that helped too.
Sunday was by far the laziest day of the weekend. I caught up on NCIS episodes and a couple of Deadliest Catch episodes in the morning. Then Matt took Carter with him to Home Depot and Menards and after getting a couple of things done around the house I took about an hour nap until Matt put sleeping Carter in our room (in his carseat) who woke up just a few short minutes after being set down. No biggie…we got up to play for a while then laid down for another nap while Matt worked on digging a hole to pour concrete to support our patio umbrella (he’s so busy with outdoor projects these days). Around 6:00pm Matt came in to wake me up with the news that Jerry and Vicki wanted us to come over once more to help out with their overabundance of food. Another hassle free dinner complete with dessert and the company of our wonderful neighbors…how could I refuse? After dinner I gave Carter a bath before Matt read him a book and put him to bed and then Matt and I settled down to watch the Grey’s Anatomy season finale. It was a great lazy day.
Lazy weekends usually don’t come without a price though. This week I’ll probably be scrambling each night to get something done to make up for being so lazy on the weekend. Oh well…such is life!
