Weekend Recap, May 6
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 05:00AM 
1. Sweet Thea (minus the collar) | 2. Medicinal hike | 3. Early to bed | 4. Gray Field Day | 5. Warm Food | 6. School Mascot | 7. Blue Sky! | 8. Faculty Follies | 9. Raffle Rain | 10. Much-needed cocktail | 11. Jackie at work | 12. Pizza holding pattern | 13. One in the oven | 14. One from the oven | 15. Tres Leches | 16. Morning Routine, local candidate, friend | 17. Lazy Sunday | 18. Necessary shopping | 19. New friend | 20. Practice | 21. Hydration | 22. Neel cooks! | 23. Amadeus | 24. Sunday supper
Well, first off, our sweet Thea is doing much better than we'd anticipated at this point. Even by Friday she'd wanted to bounce around the yard doing those funny hops that corgis do. No hopping for our girl just yet. We've reintroduced her and Lucy and they eye each other warily from across the yard. Let's be honest. Thea eyes Lucy warily and Lucy follows Thea around. We're with them at all times, but right now Thea seems more hindered by the stupid collar than anything else. She gets the drains out today and the stitches out in a week. Love bug.
I don't need to tell you we're tired. I went to bed early both nights this weekend, but especially Friday night, and it's still not enough. That is all.
Field Day at Cal's school dawned cold, gray and drizzly. We've only been to four of these, so who knows how many have dawned cold, gray and drizzly in the past? For us, it's always been warm, sunny and sunscreen-y. I ran into one of Callum's teachers who is also an alumna of the school and she told us it was the coldest, grayest, drizzliest Field Day she can remember. Enough said. I won't say much more now and will instead will save Field Day for tomorrow. Let me just say this: having just attended Fiddler on the Roof a couple weekends ago, I spent a lot of the day humming, "Tradition!"
Thank God someone offered to make us dinner.
My dear friend Jackie, who is always teaching me about photography (among other things) and giving us wonderful bread invited us to dinner with her and her partner Saturday night. She made pizzas in her wood-fired oven, and they were ah-maz-ing. No. Words. Really. It was just the thing we needed after a long day. Wonderful conversation, delicious food, much laughter and new friendships. About a perfect Saturday night. Poor Callum was exhausted and wishes he'd been better company. We all do I think. We'll just have to do it again.
I wanted to be lazy on Sunday but we cleaned the house. Oh well. It feels good to have a clean house. I played with my new baby a bit (more on that in a blog post soon) and ran some skin-care errands (aren't those fun?) and we had a deliciously delightfully boring Sunday night at home. Amadeus again, Neel made his mom's famous Chicken with Stones for dinner. It was perfect.
And my new favorite drink? You guys are going to be so disappointed! Pinapple/Coconut juice and seltzer. That's all! I hope everybody had a great weekend. I feel like I could sleep for a month, but it's all good.
Reader Comments (8)
So glad Thea is doing better. She's just a gorgeous soul..those eyes!!! Nice dinner invitation, yes that does sound like a perfect Saturday night. Field Day looks like alot of fun and the school grounds look beautifully kept. Happy week Lauren. x
you were not kidding about that field day. these & the other pictures you have on instagram definitely prove that they take field day very, very seriously. i think all the field days i have attended are pretty much just a group of kids and teachers in a field doing three -legged races and such. i can't wait to hear more about it. i am kind of intrigued.
your friends are in another galaxy of cool. they have that pizza fire set up, and all those pizza paddles and look at that pizza! they don't mess around. it looks so amazing, i am totally jealous. i wonder if they would make a gulten-free crust ; )
i cleaned my house this weekend too, i never enjoy it but it feels so good once it's done. of course it's somehow heading to disaster zone already, but i did get a few precious hours of relaxing in cleanliness in. i also watched a couple movies while i worked and brought my anxiety level way down. getting back to the same old things is like my form of prozac i guess ; ) xoxo
Your weekends are always so jam packed. I hope you're taking a little time out this Monday to decompress from the weekend
I'm so glad you mentioned feeling tired despite getting enough sleep. I seem to be in the same boat. Tired. All the time. I've even contemplated making a doctor's appointment to get a work up done. Have I already mentioned this to you? Seems my exhaustion is affecting my memory. Anyway, enough about me, sheesh. ;) Happy to hear that Thea is on the mend. Love bug, indeed, with her collar. Um, pizzas from a wood-fire oven and chicken with stones? Yum! (Ok, you got me, you'll have to tell me what stones are. ;) I can't wait to read more about Field Day and your new lens. Happy new week, L!
We had a weekend of sunshine and the warmest weekend so far this year. All good for legs out and a bit of a potter in the garden. Poor Thea, glad she is on the mend. I had a staffordshire bull terrier a few years back and she was the loveliest natured thing, but other dogs would want to argue with her and because of her look she tended to come off worst and with a bad reputation, despite never being the instigator. I would have freaked in your shoes, it's not a nice thing to see.
I love your new favourite drink... thats all :-)
x
does field day mean cal's out for the summer? our field day is the last day of school. but, you'd have told us if it was relaxing time, i bet! was field day on the weekend?
also i can easily relate to the tired thing.. our family had the whole thing, and my students were so tired, too! a busy weekend all around. just think of it this way - sunday is mother's day and you can ask for breakfast in bed! joy, n
Good friends, good food, moderately okay weather, and another showing of Amadeus?? Sign me up! But you definitely need a do-nothing weekend now after this one. You've earned it! Tell Cal that those lemons with the candy sticks inside remind me of my own elementary school's fair. It was different from Field Day, but it was an entire day without classes and every room in the school hosted a different activity. There was a movie in the auditorium, face painting in the school yard, fun science projects in one room, balloon toss in another...man I miss that. I don't even remember what it was called. But they definitely served those lemon things. And other fair-type food. All of this is making me super nostalgic for my elementary school. I haven't been back to visit since I left but I have such fond memories of the building and the teachers there. I think it would be neat to see if the school looks as imposing and huge as I remember it! xo
Glad Thea is a bit better. She is so beautiful!! OH MY! Number 19!
Hope you are well my love xx