The Weekend

It was another busy weekend at the Crummie household.  I barely had enough time to get the laundry washed (but not folded) and the grocery shopping done.  Mark and I detest grocery shopping.  I'm not sure who hates it more, but I got stuck with it this weekend.  Before we had kids we used to speed-shop.  Every week we timed ourselves and tried to beat the previous week's time.  We got pretty good, but now we have two kids and nothing is fast with two kids.  It seems like I barely have enough time to get everything done that has to be done before a new workweek begins.  If we want to fit in anything fun, we have to sacrifice something vital and we are behind come Monday morning.

Anyway, Jack and Claire had their Saturday morning swim lesson and tumble bunnies classes.  I enjoy doing the tumble bunnies class with Claire, but she can be a bit of a brute.  She positively hogs the trampoline and tumble track.  If she wants to jump on either one and there's a kid already there, she runs up and yells "MY TURN! MY TURN!" until the other kids' mom ushers them away.  It's a bit embarrasing. 

Claire at tumble bunnies

Waiting for Jack's swim lesson

After their classes I wanted to stop at United Art and Education Supply so I could see if they have a chalkboard for a project I'm working on.  The kids were a little lot hyped up after their classes and not using their walking feet.  I went to get my wallet out of the car and when I came back in I could hear Jack screaming.  Turns out, he was running and almost trampled a lady so Mark put his leg out thinking he would see it and slow down.  Jack was paying no attention and slammed head first into Mark's knee.  By the time I got here, he was a bloody nose mess.  We got the bleeding stopped, I paid for my things and we slunk out of there as best we could.  I'm sure everyone was glad to see us go.

In other weekend highlights, I made a few Pinterest recipes.  First up were these chewy M&M bars from here:   http://fantasticfamilyfavorites.blogspot.com/2011/06/thick-and-chewy-m-cookie-bars.html  They are were delicious!  I ate most of them.  I thought the recipe called for 1 egg and 1 egg white, but then I realized it wanted an egg yolk, but it was too late so I just dumped the whole second egg in there.  As far as I could tell, it made no difference.  Here's mine:

Then I made a blueberry breakfast cake from here:  http://www.alexandracooks.com/2011/06/29/buttermilk-blueberry-breakfast-cake/

I've made this before and it is fantastic.  For some reason, the kids don't like it, but I'm fine with that.  More for me.  I used thawed frozed blueberries and it definitely wasn't as good as using fresh blueberries, but still pretty good.  Walmart didn't have fresh blueberries this week and I don't go to more than one store per weekend.  If Walmart doesn't have it, I don't need it.

I made this for dinner Saturday night (also from Pinterest):  http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/143190/Penne-Pasta-with-Sun-dried-Tomato-Cream-Sauce/detail.aspx  It was just okay.  The sauce was very thin and didn't stick to the pasta very well. 

Sunday was spent at church and a trip to Lowe's (for aforementioned chalk board project).  Sunday evening we went to Nana and Papa's for pizza and the kids had a blast playing outside.  Jack rode his bike around the block and Claire doesn't like to be left out so luckily they still have this little gem that used to be my Mom's:

This reminds me to see if Claire's had a tetanus shot.  It was just a tad rusty. You'll notice Mark's belt in the picture.  Claire's feet barely touched the pedals so we pulled her around using the belt.  She doesn't have the hang of steering just yet either.

All in all, it was a good weekend.  My Etsy shop was pretty busy and I mailed out 13 orders this morning.  Now I'm just workin' for the weekend.