Warm Weather, albeit brief

I don't really want the 80 degrees we had last March, but just some upper 50's to 60's would be better than these never ending 40 degree days!

 

We got a glimpse of Spring on Friday and Saturday and I was none too pleased when Sunday brought back 40 degrees again.

 

I headed out at lunch on Friday for a run around town and it was just beautiful, right around 70, sunny, perfect. So after that I was useless, as people normally are during those first great days of spring, so I finished up some work and then headed to pick up Mallory around 3 when she got up from her nap at Tiffany's.

 

The park is literally just like a block from Tiffany's house, so we packed up all the kids in wagons and strollers and went over to the park to let them run and play. They had a ball and we enjoyed being outside!

 

I had bunco that night, so Bean and Ben had a daddy daughter night while I went to bunco with the girls.

 

Saturday morning we had a yoga workshop that my friend Allison, who now teaches yoga in NYC, was putting on here at our local yoga studio. She was sneaky and told us we would be working on arm, shoulders and our backs. Which meant inversions and balancing poses. Yes, like head stands, lol! So that was a fun class, trying to do some of the moves and poses that we would normally be too scared to do. But you know, it was really fun.

 

After that I picked up Bean and Ben met us (he had been at a pancake day for one of his Case dealers) in Hopkinsville because they were having Kite Fest and it was a perfect day. Pretty windy but in the 70's and sunny. So we had a ball with the kite I had ordered Mallory, along with about 50 other kites, so we were there for a couple of hours and then headed back to Elkton for some ice cream! It was a good family day!

 

Sunday, St Patrick's day, I headed out for a run, unfortunately the temps were now in the 40's and not 70's, with rain coming, so I did a quick 2 miles on the farm in the mist, but it was kinda like being in Ireland I thought, lol. Then we had a late breakfast and Mallory and I headed off to Allison's grandmother's for a little birthday party for her son Van, he turned 4 earlier in March and Ben headed off to TN to pick up some tractor things he bought off Craigslist. Then M and I headed to Kroger to get steaks for dinner and we fought the pouring rain the whole time, but got the groceries and headed home for a nice dinner at home.

 

It was a busy weekend but fun! Now I'm ready for 70 degrees again!!!

Spring Forward!

I'm actually really looking forward to Springing Forward an hour this year, why, because we've started a group of us gals running on Wednesday evening at 5:30 pm around town for 3 miles and when we did our first run last Wednesday by the time we were done it was a little darker than I'd probably like! So when we go out today there shouldn't be any issues with it getting dark on us!

 

Ben has even started running, he managed to run twice last week but has yet to run at all this week. We will see how this running thing goes for him.

 

Mallory is being a big girl and now willingly (well pretty close) sleeping in her own bed at night. We've battled back and forth with this for a year now since taking down her crib and converting it to a full size bed so Ben's parents would have a better place to sleep when they visit. But that's meant a lot of her sleeping with us or her having to fall asleep in our bed and us moving her to her bed, or us fighting her to stay in her bed or me having to lay down in her bed with her till she fell asleep, but we've been well over a week now of her climbing herself in her bed and getting under the covers and then just going to sleep. Yipee! I feel like I've gained back an hour of my life in the evenings!

 

This past weekend was a weekend at home with nothing major planned. I attempted cleaning and laundry, which is just never ending, and then Bean and I went grocery shopping and got back a little after lunch. Ben was helping dad with some new auto steer or some kind of gps device on his tractor all afternoon so I was planning on Shrimp Boil for dinner so I just packed that up and we fixed it at mom and dads and all ate together.

 

Sunday was WINDY! Warm but windy, we spent the bulk of the day helping mom and dad pick up limbs and wood from the field at Memaws where they logged and drug out trees and well, it was a mess, so we literally picked up sticks most of the morning and early afternoon. Wouldn't have been so back if the wind wasn't blowing 30 mph. Good ab workout I suppose, up down up down up down.

 

Then, we got in the hot tub and Ben and Mallory napped while I ran to Clarksville to pick up the sandbox I had found for her on Craigslist for her birthday!

 

Now back to the grind of another week!

Preschool and the Gin Show

Well, sounds like Mallory's preschool has officially been figured out.

 

Although I love being back home in Todd County, I'm not at all impressed with the pre-K options available. Well, there are no options available unless you are low income, that's all they allow in the public school system pre-school program. And there are no other private options available in the county, so Todd County kids are pretty much screwed when it comes to preschool.

 

I debated on if I really thought she needed it but I think it will be good for her and they soak up so much knowledge at this age, I know she will learn a lot.

 

There are several good ones in Hopkinsville, about 25 minutes away, but the only one with after care (which I obviously need) is at UHA. That's also where Zaylei goes (so Stefanie can take her in the mornings) and also my friend Jarrod's daughter goes there with his son starting first grade there next year, so we know some people there and I've been really impressed with them in our visits.

 

We stopped by on the way to the Gin Show on Friday to drop off our deposit and to show Ben and Mallory the school. As soon as we walked into the Pre-K 3 room Mallory made herself at home and started playing with everything. She loved it! The teachers seem great and Ben liked it as well, so that's pretty much settled, M will start preschool there in late August.

 

Then we headed to Memphis. I was going to work the Gin Show meeting people and making contacts while Ben and M looked around. Ben's parents were to meet us there Friday night for the weekend. Everyone enjoyed looking around the Gin Show which is not anywhere near as crazy and crowded as the Farm Machinery Show in Louisville! After dinner Friday night Bean got to spend some time playing in the pool at the hotel and then everyone crashed!

 

Saturday it was back to the Gin Show so I could meet up with a few other people, so we were there till around 2 pm and then we headed over to Germantown to meet up with Todd, Amy and cooper. We just spent the afternoon with them at their house and then went to one of Ben's fav Memphis BBQ joints, the Commissary, it was good, I had Chicken Nachos. We stayed the night with Todd and Amy and Mallory and Cooper had a ball playing. Well Mallory had fun playing with all of Cooper's toys!

 

Sunday Amy and Todd fixed us a yummy breakfast and then we headed back to Kentucky. We stopped off in Clarksville on the way back so Ben could get some running shoes. He's determined to take up running so I wanted him to get fit properly. Then we ran over to Bink's, an outfitter there on Franklin Street where they were having a 40% off North Face sale! Then we decided we were finally hungry and went over to the Black Horse for late lunch. Yummy! Then a quick run to target for Diapers and we headed home!

 

A great weekend, good to see family and friends, not I'm ready to be home for a few weekends : )