A Picnic

Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.... for your comments, advice, and insight on the witching hour(s) that I spoke of struggling with in this recent post. I have since felt a renewed energy toward my long afternoons with the Smalls. We have changed our routine a bit and have spent time on the porch, walked, bathed, and watched many a Veggie Tale during these hours. After hearing what other mamas are doing I feel less guilty for letting him play alone for some time and better equipped to handle the home stretch of the day. Y'all had some great ideas!

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This morning I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off. For one, SG and I stayed up too late last night. For two, I had an OB appointment that took an hour longer than I expected. The nurses forgot about me in the waiting room. Darn nurses. Really, they felt terrible and I could sympathize with them being that I once was a nurse and still pretend to be one a couple weekends a month. Unfortunately, I missed my ladies' Bible study because of the mishap. But all is well.

Brother and I still had time for our picnic. (Stephen Grande has started to call Smalls - Brother, and its starting to stick.)

I have a creative friend who is always planning fantastic kid-friendly activities. She asked us to join her and her girls for a picnic after Bible study.

The picnic was so fun except I WENT TO THE WRONG PARK.

I had gotten there a little early being that I missed my Bible study.

So Stephen Small and I went on with our sandwiches.

and Cheetoes (the child is going to turn in to a Cheetoe - he loves em).

We then packed our things after hearing from my friend that I was indeed at the wrong park.

Fortunately the parks are in the same neighborhood, so it took one minute to get to right park . We visited, we swang, we avoided two major falls. It was SO fun.

And then I got so blazin' hot in my maternity jeans.

So we quickly called it a day.

 I see many picnics in our future. Picnics make me feel old fashioned. And I love feeling old fashioned.

Hope you all are having a great week! Friday is coming fast.