Weekend Update

So, where are we? Home. How's the extended wrap-up going? well. Quite well.

R's Boy Scout troop had an all-nighter at Bulwinkle's Family Fun Center on Friday night/Saturday morning. I chaperoned. Neither R nor I slept all night. In fact, once R discovered he was just tall enough to drive the GoKarts himself, he spent most of the night there! All-in-all, it was a fun time. We played video games, watched a movie (in pieces), rode the roller coaster simulator, and ... drove gokarts a LOT.  Me? I drove a bit with him, and strolled the facility much of the night, just trying to be aware of the other boys from our troop. Can you believe it? There were no incidents of any kind, at any time, between any boys at all, that I witnessed or heard about.

When we came home, I slept about 90 minutes, R slept almost 10 hours, waking up at about 7pm and then going back to bed about 11pm. My sleep was interrupted by landscaper guys putting in the drainage pipes for the patio. Really, I didn't mind. Looks like we're all ready for pavers and water feature creation.

While R slept, we did some low-key house stuff. We figured out the water feature details, in FINAL FINAL form, and Jason, the General Contractor, is making the proper arrangements. I drove to Home Depot, and came home with a barbecue grill (for my birthday) and a set of patio furniture. Both items require assembly; R can help me with that. We swapped around some porch lights, and started sorting through the boxes in the garage. It feels good to be making progress on that last bastion of boxes.

Sunday was Mother's Day - M was at a sleep-over; R slept until about 8am. Then he quietly and respectfully approached his sleeping mom, and said, "Happy Mother's Day. I'm making breakfast."

That delighted C to no end. She woke up fully to that news and anxiously awaited a Mother's Day breakfast - a breakfast that would, she slowly realized,  never come. You see, R's meaning was "I'm making breakfast for myself today, so you don't have to." Of course, C heard "I"m making breakfast for you."  I think C was disappointed, but also amazingly gracious - she also realized that having R endeavour to be self-reliant was also a gift to her. She rolled with it nicely.

Sunday also included some cleanup and tidy-up work inside - final touches on things:

• R's room has baseboard trim!
• Upstairs Common Room has baseboard trim!
• Upstairs Landing has baseboard trim!
• Front door has a first coat of clear coat and a fresh coat of white paint on the inside. Looks fabulous.
• C ran a bead of caulking all around the edges of the crown molding in the living room and dining room.*

We started attending  a Baha'i marriage and family seminar to attend Sunday afternoon.

So that's the big Mother's Day weekend.

 

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* In some ways, we're down to this: C is caulking seams that I can't see and didn't notice. Many of the items on our to-do list are this level of work.