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20 2018 2018 well 2018 was not the best year of blogging but i love this questions recap that lisa and amber did so i m going to join in 1 what did you do on your birthday i had a great birthday this year on the day of my sister babysat jack for a bit while i went and browsed at a local bookstore and then bought myself a cake i celebrated that night with family and then the next morning we went to the cape we ended up with beautiful weather and went over on a boat to martha s vineyard for the day at night my parents babysit where eric and i went to the restaurant we had our rehearsal dinner it was such a great few day celebration and probably more than i deserved for 34 2 what are your strongest memories from this year and why so many great memories from this year we had a goal to do 1 eric and kelly date and 1 family date per month a lot of these stand out in my mind as happy memories especially more than one family walk around walden pond i also have mostly good memories of spending days with the boys especially our fun spanish class we took max doesn t remember much but jack still says adios when saying bye to toys or other things we say adios shower when it s time to get out i loved doing jogging stroller runs with jack chatting on marco polo somehow attempting to have my kids not kill each other on the days they were both home well maybe those aren t happy memories in the summer we enjoyed caroline s wedding both kids made it down the aisle which was a major accomplishment and i survived giving a speech eric and i took an amazing trip to bermuda that was the best last hurrah ever before i went back to work i have strong memories of the transition back to work it was great to feel productive again and see my work friends it was hard to leave jack and transition him to school the second half of the year was more of a blur but it was fun to see both boys enjoying school we had a fun trip to new hampshire and santa s village we loved seeing santa come by fire truck getting our tree etc the boys got a new cousin in september it was fun to see their reactions to a new baby in the family jack loves him so much as long as his mummy is not holding him lol there were some hard times too toddler tantrums preschool attitude just being dang exhausted of children sometimes of logistics and being in charge of everything but like most times these don t stand out as much when i look back on the year 3 what did you do this year that you d never done before i think i m going to beat my previous number of books read that counts right i went to bermuda never been there before in bermuda i rode on the back of a motorcycle and went scuba diving i ve done both before but not in years i survived working full time with 2 children i also survived my entire family getting the stomach bug at once that had never happened before hope it never does again lol 4 what did you want and get i wanted lots of time with my little family this year i got that for sure i wanted more time with just eric and i i got that i wanted to work out consistently and i did that though it was still far less than before i had kids i wanted to make time for reading this year and i did 5 what did you want and not get relaxation lol i know hopeless 6 what would you like to have next year that you didn t have this year i d like more time to myself and more time with friends we shall see if i can make this happen 7 did you make new year s resolutions and did you keep them will you make more for next year yes i resolved to do a monthy date with eric and a monthly family date i wasn t perfect at keeping track but i m pretty sure we met this goal i m still thinking on what my goals will be for next year but i think they will have something to do with my answer to question 6 i also plan to maintain the monthly dates 8 what was your biggest achievement of this year survival i really need to step it up next year on the achievement part actually here s another one between last year and this year i think i ve finally reached the point where cooking can be an enjoyable process it used to be that when i cooked i was chained to the recipe measuring everything failing half the time in the end and then getting really frustrated now most of the things i make actually turn out good and dare i say sometimes i even enjoy cooking i feel like i have some basic knowledge now of what will work what my family will like etc that s probably not a big accomplishment to others but i basically have no home related skills so now i have maybe half of one still not a gourmet chef 9 what was your biggest lesson the first is that it really benefits me when i have a schedule plan this isn t that surprising but at the same time i ve always prided myself on being a flexible person that said i ve noticed it helps me to have a routine for example it really helped me to plan monthly dates for eric and i having that plan made it happen and it helped me whenever i felt like eric and i never have any quality time together because i could remind myself it had never really be much longer than a month since at least some quality time was had i also started doing monthly meal plans this year with a weekly check in and grocery list this worked really well too and eliminated the decision fatigue of figuring out wtf to eat every single week the second thing i learned was how to balance our weekends i have found that if i divide the weekend into 4 parts sat morning sat afternoon sun morning sun afternoon we should have plans for no more than 2 of these parts in order for all 4 of us to be happy we really enjoyed some lazy saturday mornings we are not saturday morning kid activity people at least for now 10 what did you rely on when you were overwhelmed talking to eric talking to friends on marco polo or texting reading maybe too much internet scrolling to do lists this was fun to fill out please play along or answer some questions in the comments posted by kelly at 8 56 pm 5 comments wednesday june 13 2018 summer bucket list swan boats and strawberry picking it s not even official summer and the boys and i have already done a couple of our summer bucket list items the first was reading make way for ducklings and then going into boston to visit the swan boats and the duckling statues max was at the perfect age for this he was super into the book when we read it and excited to see the ducklings we had a beautiful day to visit boston and my original plan was to park and take the train in because i thought that would be the most fun for the kids but the train station parking was full so we regrouped and just kept driving i used it as an opportunity to talk to max about the word flexible in the car ha once at the boston common we headed straight for the swan boats max had been on the swan boats when he was much younger but didn t remember it i was happy and impressed that both boys sat down on the boat and thought it was fun to look at all the buildings around and the islands in the pond there were a few ducks around so max thought they might be quack ouack jack and max we may have told him that mac max since jack had his own duck in the book he will figure out that s not true soon enough because he knows how to read his name after the swan boats we rode the carousel which was a little rickety but the kids didn t mind then we headed over to find the ducklings max said that was his favorite part of the day and even though this happened a few weeks ago he was talking earlier today about remember when we ate a little snack next to the ducklings on the way home we were talking about what we saw and the books and max referred to mr and mrs mallard as the teachers after a bit of questioning i realized that he thought they were the teachers because they are called mr and mrs and the only people he refers to this way are teachers i love child mix ups this morning we crossed off another item on our list strawberry picking i ve been meaning to do this for literally years but berry picking season is so short and it s during one of my busiest times of the year at work so it never actually happens the boys got a little taste of it when we picked up our csa last week because we got to pick a small container of strawberries there they enjoyed it so i decided to take them to a small farm in town called meadow mist farm it s so small you have to call ahead but they were very friendly when i called when we arrived they gave us a couple of containers and showed us how to remove the blankets from the strawberry patches they are there to keep the animals from eating the yummy strawberries max enjoyed that the farmer told us looking for red strawberries is like a treasure hunt jack really wanted to eat the strawberries but settled for squishing them when i told him we weren t supposed to eat until we pay after we picked our strawberries which by the way is the type of activity with a 1 year old that s fun for less than 10 minutes and then you frantically grab as many as possible before he squishes them all we headed over to check out some of the animals we got to see a lot of chickens some sheep and even some baby cows max thought it was pretty funny that even baby cows are bigger than him another great thing about the farm is they have special education students on some of their school days i m not sure exactly how the program works i think that the kids are helping to work and also learning at the same time as a result we got a very sweet high school girl who showed us to the baby cows definitely the type of place i like to support i m excited for eric to start joining us on our summer adventures next week when school gets out for him hopefully i ll be back to report how we are doing i m starting to think i might want to add a few extra things to the list ha ha posted by kelly at 2 09 pm 4 comments monday may 21 2018 summer bucket list 2018 and first wedding of the year last week on the podcast caroline and i discussed summer bucket lists why we make them and a few things on our list for this year my two main reasons for making a bucket list are 1 so i will actually do fun stuff 2 so i will not ask the question every day what should we do today i am not the type of person who has to cross everything off it s more like a list of things that would be fun to do and hopefully i ll get to ask many as possible so here it is summer bucket list 2018 go to a red sox game read make way for ducklings then go see the ducklings and ride the swan boats davis farmland strawberry picking enjoy a csa already signed up swim in the ocean in walden pond in a lake go to a concert not sure if this will be an outdoor concert with kids or a nighttime one stay at a hotel run before the kids wake up visit barnstable brewing company read a book that takes place at the beach visit titcomb books on 6a roast marshmallows with max visit a splash park go on an all outdoor date eat at riverview cafe in sandwich visit jam kitchen fish hatchery or heritage gardens at the same time walk out to the beach at brewster natural history museum ice cube painting outside see an author speak i ll also try to avoid an epic august breakdown but that s probably not likely since i usually have one after just a few months off technically it s a few more days until memorial day but this past weekend felt summer esque beginning with a fun day trip on thursday to see my friends alli and chris and their super cute baby aaron we met up in newburyport which is a super cute north shore town i ve spent some time in newburyport on plum island but i didn t even realize i don t think i had ever been to the downtown area i will definitely be back with eric and both kids friday was my cousin s wedding they had a beautiful night and gorgeous sunset it was also fun to see the whole family and do some dancing but i am definitely old because after a few beers and staying up waayyy past my bedtime on saturday i was feeling blah ha ha luckily kids make you move anyway so we went over to eric s parents to pick up the boys and go out to a hibachi restaurant the food was just okay but the entertainment for both boys was definitely worth it ha ha sunday was spent playing with our new water table and having neighborhood friends over for dinner all in all a good weekend i m in a good workout grove right now so i d like to keep that up this week i also have to keep up my reading because i have several books from the library right now i noticed i haven t been reading to the boys as much because we ve been outside a lot they always get books at bedtime so it s not that it s none just less i m going to try to fit in a couple of extra books a day with jack it only takes about 1 minute to read him a book so it s still doable even with a lot of outside time i also want to plan a few fun things to do on the upcoming long weekend it looks like we are going to get a lot of rain so i don t want to sit around and sulk ha ha how was your weekend posted by kelly at 2 45 pm 3 comments tuesday may 15 2018 happy mother s day 2018 sunday was mother s day we had a good day and i was reminded as i often am how much happier sundays are when they are busy and filled with plans instead of another day of getting things done and worrying about the week ahead yes i still have the sunday blues even though i stay home these days in the morning we visited eric s mom and his nana his nana cracks me up when we came in she s like its not my birthday for another month oh yea mother s day she s almost 93 and she really loves birthdays maybe others more than her own in the afternoon we had lunch dinner with my family and then went over to my parents after lunch for some photos and hanging out caroline got a lot of good ones this is my new favorite picture of me and max i can t believe that soon he will be too big for me to pick up i actually really love his age now though i ve been known to say that a lot about different ages with him so hopefully even more fun is yet to come i showed you guys on friday the cards we and i really mean we made for eric s grandmothers i also did little books i think they were 15 each for eric s mom and my mom from max and jack the books are from pinhole press and have space for 10 photos then inside there are lots of prompts max is at a perfect age for this activity because a lot of his answers are funny or just will be fun to look back on in a few years i think this is something i ll probably do for the next few years and soon jack will be able to answer himself this year i just made up his answers this week ends with my cousins wedding on friday but in the meantime i have a lot of little to dos i want to continue my 4 weekly workouts two walk runs and two lifting sessions and this week i need to read a lot i m finally into my book and i have about 4 that came to my kindle from the library so i need to prioritize reading for a few weeks i m also hoping to finalize my summer bucket list 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