Happy New Year to all (officially!) As usual, I’m already having issues remembering to write 2016 on everything. It was so nice to have a three day weekend and spend it hanging out with my little fam. We did a TON of traveling over Christmas (over 700 miles in 3 days) so we enjoyed hanging low this weekend without any plans whatsoever except catching up on all the sleep. The babies apparently caught wind of that idea though and thought they would teach me a lesson on making plans with 4 kiddos under 5 in the house….
Our NYE was very uneventful. My best friend and godson came to visit during the day so my crew skipped their ‘quiet time’ in the afternoon and lost their ever loving minds come 6:30 pm. They willingly (!!!) went to bed early leaving Josh and I to snuggle the babies and ring in 2016 like the wild people we are. Instead… this was me at 9:40 pm. Whatever.
We spent Friday and Saturday digging through the Christmas presents we had unloaded out of the car in a sleepy haze and piled in the babies’ room. We finally put those away and took down our Christmas decorations. Usually, it makes me a little sad to put all the bright and cheerfulness away for the year but this year I was SO, SO ready. In our small living room we had crammed our regular furniture, two baby swings, more toys than you can imagine and a bigger Christmas tree than we have ever had before. I was ready to have some sense of normalcy and walking space back. Of course, I’d also had enough with the pine needles already.
Sunday we headed to our mall early in the morning to let the boys run off some energy before it opened for shoppers. You can almost always find us there on a weekend morning in the heart of winter in Iowa because we all get cabin fever over here. It was perfect because the cold kept even the mall walkers at home and we had our run (literally) of the place. We stopped by the hockey rink on our way out and my big boys were so captivated by the game that they forgot their crazy moods for at least 15 minutes and sat like quiet little angels watching. It was amazing.
We ended the weekend with Week 17 of football. Obviously the Bears have been out of this season for awhile but it was at least fun for us to watch the games that determines playoff matchups come down to the final minutes!
We have some super busy weekends coming up so it was really nice to take this one to just relax!