Weekend of projects and new things..

Last week was a brain suck. Seriously. I was weary in the head by the time work finished up on Friday afternoon. We had a morale event with cake and icecream and then I jetted to go grocery shopping. I got us dinner stuff and weekend stuff and then put sweet potatoes in on the grill and motored to pick up the little boy who was having a rough end of his afternoon. Ms. Katy thought it was a cold...I knew it for a tired little boy. Got home and managed to get dinner made and in the middle mel called his dad who had left a message the night before but we just realized the machine was blinking. That then led to mel calling his mother in MI and well, I managed to get me and the boy fed, the boy in bed, mel's food chopped up so he could eat while on the phone (we had new york strip steak) and got things tidied for company since we were hosting a semi-kinda planned smallish game night.

Willa/Dom and Ari arrived and we took up space in the viking long room to chat and then since it was still probably going to be a while we read through the rules for Tsuro of the Seas which had just come out from its kickstarter campaign. By the time we got through the first round of moves mel was done and we finished up the game and then got him in the second game. It was Ari's night to win those games and we all agreed that Tsuro was fun and that the sea monsters raise the random level almost too much.

The we played Cards Against Humanity and OMG...we laughed so hard I'm sure I put a rib out of place. Its like Apples to Apples but its for ADULTS ONLY. One card made us all realize that the house rule needs to not have Ed every play the game...its seriously adult. The drinks were flowing and we all had such a good time which was good. I think all of us needed it after a stressful week and time with friends makes things just better. I stayed up even later reading and staying up late was just par for the course this weekend.

Saturday we were up way early. Benton was up, awake and HUNGRY! at 615 or so. Oof. We bumbled around and then mel and the boy went out to the shop for some quality Daddy/Benton workshop time. So cute...there are pictures like this one:



I managed to work on the baby blanket that is due next week all day Saturday while chatting with folks and Shanda. Benton had a good time playing with Mark and Maddy and a lot got done on scrolls. Dinner that evening was proper Hrafn style and then us ladies all chatted while mel played video games. Another very, very late night and the again up early on Sunday due to Benton.

We had a nice breakfast and Joe's and it was a good morning. Got back to the house and Ari worked on scrollage while I crocheted and then scribes started arriving and things just went from there. I painted tag team style with Icka. Then Sioux arrived and she let loose on things with much effect. I got the boys and I chinese for dinner and then it was evening routine followed by projecting (crochet) while mel played Borderlands. We ended up going to bed ON TIME for once and that was nice. Course we all needed a good night's sleep.

I did manage to install a new to us baby gate in the hallway and now Benton has full run of the kitchen, front room and family room which he's been using as a race track on my old playskool scooter. Its so cute! He was uber happy to just go round and round and round the house.

All in all a good weekend, lots of good projects being worked on and lots of good accomplished on the arts front.