Except no. That's not fun at all.
I made the wise and wonderful decision to take Friday as a vacation day and extend the already long weekend an extra day. Me and Amelia truly had the best day on Friday doing a few of our favorite things.
First we stopped by Barnes & Noble because Amelia had to go make sure all of the Elmo and Mickey books were still in the same place that she left them. She has come to believe the story I am telling her that Elmo and Mickey live there. It is a genius plan in my mind because it keeps me from having to actually purchase the $23 picture books that are all of 5 pages because anytime we want to go visit our friends Mickey and Elmo, all we have to do is hop in the car and drive down the road & they will be happy to see us!
After a sufficient check on all the Elmo and Mickey books, we headed over to Starbucks because the Barnes & Noble Starbucks tried to ruin my life by telling me that they didn't have the pumpkin spice lattes yet, and all I had been dreaming about all morning was walking around BN with my PSL in hand, but no, they had to go and squash my dreams like a bug. But THEN, the clouds parted and the sunshine came out in the form of the BN Starbucks cashier informing me that the stand alone Starbucks across the parking lot does in fact have the sweet sweet pumpkin nectar of life for sale if I wanted to just head over there. There really are good people in this world.
So after I taught Amelia the invaluable life lessons that fall officially starts the day you have your first pumpkin spice latte, and also, that you can never have too much pumpkin flavored goodness (as we shared a pumpkin spice muffin, and I could see the pumpkin-loving glimmer in Amelia's eyes), we ran over to Kohl's to do a little shopping. Since we were planning on spending the weekend in our country home, aka, Chris's parents house, I bought Amelia a gigantic bucket of bubble-related activities so we could play with it outside all weekend. I also bought us a pumpkin gingerbread candle for the house (because see life lesson #2 above).
After our morning errands, we came home and realized those fall-like temperatures had disappeared and we needed an activity to cool down. So we tossed off our fleece Northface jackets and threw on our bathing suits to head outside and splish splash in the water table. I for one love those days when you can go from long sleeves to bathing suits in the course of a few hours.
Even though Amelia loves her water table, she also had just as much fun splashing around in the big bucket of water I brought out to fill the table with water. Lucy also enjoyed the bucket. Who needs to spend cash money on expensive water activities when you can entertain just as well with a $2 bucket and a plastic flowering can?
Finally, it was time for Chris to come home, and we quickly loaded up the car to head out to our vacation home in the country. We love spending a few weekends a year out there so that Amelia and Lucy can run around in the fresh outdoors taking rides in the red wagon and swinging in the tree swing, while me and Chris eat our weight in all things home-cookin' provided by his mom. Oh my word, am I ever going to pay the salty buttery corn on the cob piper today at the gym.
Speaking of the gym, I will be amping up my training a little to get ready for a 10K race on October 15th in Bowling Green. I was so happy to talk my sister into doing the race with me & I am pumped and looking forward to a sister weekend in the near future. Woo hoo!
The rest of the weekend was a cycle of eating, reading, lounging, cleaning, grocery shopping, and other non-interesting activities. However, I have to admit that as we ate & lounged & cleaned & etc., we thoroughly enjoyed the burning of our pumpkin gingerbread candle. The pumpkin just makes everything better. Amen.
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