Yep, I suppose it's been that long since I had a chance to post. I had a whopper of a week of work last week. Most of my time was spent diagnosing an issue we were seeing in a client's analysis dataset, and it was deep-thinking, heavy-lifting time all day every day. So I didn't get my usual stop-downs to consume and think through much media or do much of anything else except think and work.
This weekend was glorious. We had a lot of rain on Thursday and Friday, and then a little bit on Saturday morning (literally just a fraction of an inch.) Then I got onto the roof and cleaned the gutters (actually, dad came over and helped by cleaning out the ones in the back of the house after I had knocked out the front), then we ran out to grab some new outdoor furniture for the front porch.
Mass on Saturday afternoon was followed by family time at home - including some Thomas & daddy time in the yard.
Sunday morning, the 2nd graders at church received their first Holy Communion. After Mass, we went to spend some time at a celebratory party with a couple of the kids that we know and work with in the youth choir. Then it was more Thomas & daddy time in the yard - sweeping and cleaning up, riding the tricycle, planting flowers, re-installing part of the siding on our front porch that had come loose and allowed a bird to start building a nest, putting an extra lock high up on the front door to keep Thomas inside, blowing some bubbles, drawing on the front porch with chalk, and doing some light magazine reading on the front porch (we even took Matthew outside for this one!) In the meantime, mommy got some work done around the house and cooked us a wonderful dinner.
The highlights of the weekend were the family time, but a close second was watching all of the liturgies and events surrounding the Holy Father's visit to our country. The Masses on Saturday & Sunday were beautiful (the execution and selections of music on Friday were pretty bad, in my opinion.)
All in all, we had a wonderful weekend with friends and family and got a lot of work done outside doing some gardening and getting the yard and garden more ready for more plantings.
This weekend was glorious. We had a lot of rain on Thursday and Friday, and then a little bit on Saturday morning (literally just a fraction of an inch.) Then I got onto the roof and cleaned the gutters (actually, dad came over and helped by cleaning out the ones in the back of the house after I had knocked out the front), then we ran out to grab some new outdoor furniture for the front porch.
Mass on Saturday afternoon was followed by family time at home - including some Thomas & daddy time in the yard.
Sunday morning, the 2nd graders at church received their first Holy Communion. After Mass, we went to spend some time at a celebratory party with a couple of the kids that we know and work with in the youth choir. Then it was more Thomas & daddy time in the yard - sweeping and cleaning up, riding the tricycle, planting flowers, re-installing part of the siding on our front porch that had come loose and allowed a bird to start building a nest, putting an extra lock high up on the front door to keep Thomas inside, blowing some bubbles, drawing on the front porch with chalk, and doing some light magazine reading on the front porch (we even took Matthew outside for this one!) In the meantime, mommy got some work done around the house and cooked us a wonderful dinner.
The highlights of the weekend were the family time, but a close second was watching all of the liturgies and events surrounding the Holy Father's visit to our country. The Masses on Saturday & Sunday were beautiful (the execution and selections of music on Friday were pretty bad, in my opinion.)
All in all, we had a wonderful weekend with friends and family and got a lot of work done outside doing some gardening and getting the yard and garden more ready for more plantings.
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