I Need a Reminder That It's Not Sunday

Never has a Monday felt so much like a Sunday. I'm loving our 4-day weekends that we've been doing for the last few weeks. Gavin goes to see Dawn on Tuesday while I hit the gym, do my errands, run to appointments, and do my school work. (School work...that sounds weird to say.) Wednesday is swim class and usually a lot of this and that, and Thursday is back to Dawn for G and school for me. We're adding a Friday activity to our agenda...toddler soccer! I have no idea how that will work out, but it should be hilarious if nothing else.

But let me back up. I said buh-bye to the guys on Friday morning to hit an event at SCC and then the gym. And then I came home, and I didn't leave for a solid 24 hours, and it was really awesome. (Dylan and Gavin had been home since Thursday, so they had me beat in the homebody category this time around.) We took turns parenting and getting work done. I had a baloney-ton of homework for just taking two classes and kept all my supplies nearby so that anytime I had 30 seconds to proof-read a paper, work on my lettering, or get busy with my X-acto knife and rubber cement, I would do it. I am super efficient as a combo parent-student. It's ridiculous when I think back to how much time I wasted when I was solely a student. I spent 70% of my "study time" just daydreaming. I want that time back. If only that's how things worked...

We've put some mediocre effort into potty training. Gavin loves to pee on the potty and collect his treat, but he also pees his pants a lot. I don't have high hopes that this is something we'll master any time soon.

On Saturday night, we finally decided it was time to get our show on the road. We went to the Scottsdale Quarter for the Fall Concert Series, and even though it was 105 degrees, we enjoyed this "Fall" tradition. In fact, it was one of the greatest nights I can remember in a while. Of course it was warm, but not brutally so. Gavin was tired, and about 65% of the time when he's tired, he's an uncontrollable, cranky mess. 15% of the time he's a hyper-maniac, and 10% of the time, he just slows down and is mellow. We hit the sweet 10% on this night. The guys splashed in the splash pad and ran up and down fake grass hills, we picked up True Food to-go, and the band was really awesome. It was just so, so good.

Listening to the music and being a happy little nugget.

"Try Daddy!" He loves to force food and drink on us.

The family togetherness continued on Sunday when we checked into the JW Marriott for the night. We had the closest possible room to the pool on the ground floor. If you're wondering whether or not a Sunday night in September is busy at the old J-Dub, you're probably guessing correctly. It was dead. Which was great...we literally had the lazy river all to ourselves this morning. We spent a good amount of time floating in the river and playing in the pool yesterday. Then we hit the lobby bar where Dylan cashed in on both of our free drinks while I enjoyed an iced tea and Gavin drove his fire engine into the fountain. Then we ran around outside, saw a bobcat and threw rocks into the water. Dylan picked up BJs to-go, and we had a fantastic dinner in our room. After we put Gavin to bed in the bathroom (in an actual bed...not like in the tub), we watched the movie Wild and called it a night. Breakfast was at Starbucks and then it was a few laps around the lazy river before we packed it up and headed home. I was on G duty while D was hard at work, then it was dinner as a family and Monday night football, more school work for me...and here we are.

Gavin's a little big for his "boat," but he really loved it for floating the lazy river.

Swimming and smoothies.

Waiting for his dad to pull the car around.

Back to the grind tomorrow which, let's face it, is not much of a grind at all. Somehow we are staying super busy around here and also super happy. Dylan remains overjoyed that I feed him decent food and that we can actually do things spur-of-the-moment, like go on a staycation on a Sunday. With his job, we can only ever do things spur-of-the-moment, and with my job, I can only ever do anything if I claim the day off like two years in advance. So for a long time, we basically didn't do much. But here we are, each of us right where we want to be. It feels so good, and we are so fortunate.