Spring Break/Weekend Recap

Last week was Garrett's spring break.  I'm not sure how the 3 year old set is doing spring break these days, but I can probably guarantee that ours was a little disappointing.  Had Garrett even been aware that it was, in fact, spring break and that many other families were actually going places and doing fun things.  Fortunately, he can't read, much less read a calendar or tell time, so that is currently working in my favor.  When Cooper's 3, Garrett will already be in real school and having a real spring break, so I'm sure Cooper's 3 year old spring break will be more fun-filled than Garrett's.  But let's not point this fact out to Garrett, shall we?

In reality, when you're 3, an only child, and on spring break, you really just want to be back in school.  You're missing out on all the fun that comes with hanging with the other 3 year olds and having a pretty cool teacher.  Instead, you're hanging out with a pregnant Momma and never seeing Daddy because it is, in fact, tax season so he's not home before 11 pm and is gone before 7 am.  I'm sure those are the kind of hours Garrett would prefer to keep, but Momma won't allow it.

So spring break included a day of fun going shopping with Momma while she was looking for birthday presents for all the family members celebrating their birthdays this time of year.  The bright point to the day included a lunch at Steak n Shake.  I think the vanilla shake made up for the fact that he had to walk through Michael's with me while I bought a poster frame and wicker basket.  But the majority of spring break was spent playing outside.  Digging holes in the ground (the sandbox is currently full of water due to all the rain we had the previous week) and trying to play in the sandbox-turned-pool when Momma wasn't looking.  We also watched Pinnochio many, many times.  It's currently out on DVD (for those of you who don't own it), so we bought it on grocery day last week before it goes back into the "Disney Vault".  I did consider actually going somewhere and doing something fun, but I think every school district in our area was on spring break last week.  In my mind it makes more sense to hold off going to the zoo or to the theater until all the school kids are back in school.  So I'll try to muster up the energy soon and head off to do something fun that will make up for our lack of breaking the bank for spring break.  Maybe.

This weekend was fun because my youngest sister and brother spent most of the day on Saturday with us.  They were traveling from south Texas back to Indiana and spent the night with us on Saturday night.  We had fun getting to see them and spend some time together.  I know they were exhausted from a long week of partying hard without parental supervision, but we still enjoyed seeing them.

Sunday was church and Sunday school.  When we picked Garrett up from Sunday school, he showed us his craft which was where they took pictures of things they like out of magazines and glued them on construction paper.  My favorite part of this was the fact that one of the pictures was a baby dressed in a bee costume.  I assumed he liked it because it was a bee, but when I pointed to the picture and asked what it was, he said it was a baby, like the one in my belly.  The rest of the pictures were of animals and a cowboy, so I was very impressed that the baby ranked with those as something he likes.

We had lunch at Chili's where Garrett acted as the unpaid, unofficial greeter because our table happened to look over the entrance, so he waved hi and bye to everyone.  As well as telling them to have a good day.  The actual greeter was very impressed with him and told him to apply for a job there when he was, you know, old enough to actually get hired.  We went to the mall afterwards with the plan to check out the animals at the pet store.  It's the red-neck version of the zoo, of course.  Unfortunately our mall's pet store is currently relocating and hasn't opened up in their new location, so Garrett got to ride a mini train in the mall instead.  The interesting part about our time in the mall was that when we first walked in we could hear a group of people yelling/screaming.  It's so hard to know if that's a bunch of little kids who aren't being supervised or a group of teenagers just trying to be annoying, so I mostly tuned it out, but there were plenty of people looking around and trying to figure out what was going on.  We saw several cops and mall security in the mall too, which made us think that this wasn't the best time to be there, but we were heading in the opposite direction as they were, so that was probably a good thing.  According to a mall cleaning lady, who told the lady running the train, someone in the food court was choking.  I'm not sure why you would be yelling or screaming when you witness someone choking, so who knows if that's really the case here, but we did see a stretcher being taken up to the 3rd level where the food court is, so I guess that's possible.  It seemed like they were yelling for an awfully long time if someone was actually choking during the whole ordeal.  A fire truck and an ambulance were sitting outside of the mall when we left.  

The rest of the day was pretty anticlimactic after that.  We did our taxes and rested up for another week of late nights.  I know Garrett will be happy to head back to school tomorrow and Keith is counting down the days to when he'll actually be home in time to eat supper with us.  Me?  I'm just happy to know I don't have to be "on" as the cruise ship director of fun and crafts between the playing outside and watching a movie every day this week.  Atleast school breaks up the monotony of my lack of fun ideas.