Weekend Shenanigans

Getting back in the groove of things after last weekend being a long weekend. We pretty much had typical Ragland weekend this weekend. I'll give you some highlights of our not-so-eventful life.

Friday-

-We had 5 kids at our house. {Are we crazy?} Kullen had two of his friends stay the night and Reagan had a friend over as well. 3- 14 year olds and 2- 8 year olds. It actually wasn't toooo bad.

-I began doing my household chores for the week. {I'm OCD and the madness of cleaning never really ends} I opted for the easiest dinner route, pizza. You can never really go wrong serving pizza with kids around.


Saturday-

-Adam was up again before daybreak, working on Countertops. That man of mine is a worker, y'all. It is one of the things I admire most about him. He doesn't have a lazy bone in his body. The boys slept in and then lounged and played PlayStation. {Because what else do boys do these days?!} The girls were up at the crack o' dawn ripping a raring to go! The played "store" and "school" together. The highlight of their morning was playing the card game "Goldfish". I continued my chore list, drank a couple cups of coffee and got myself somewhat thrown together to go to town. I had several Photography session scheduled but due to the delightful Texas weather that changed three times from Friday night until Saturday morning, I ended up rescheduling two of them just because we didn't trust that is wasn't going to rain. Guess what. Rain that was supposed to be here at noon, came at 5pm. REALLY!? C'mon. Give a sister a break. Luckily, I was able to complete one Senior session which was super fun. The girls & I had lunch at Chick-fil-a picnic style.

-Saturday evening, the girls begged for Alleigh, Reagan's pal to spend the night again. I obliged. They really play well together. Keeps Reagan occupied and she has a lot of fun. Earlier, we went to Target to gather up cards, stickers & fun stuff to decorate Cards for Hospitalized Kids. We talked about empathy and compassion. Both girls had a blast and it was so neat to see what their little hearts had to say on the cards. It was really precious.

-Saturday night the weather got hairy, I was supposed to have dinner with my friend, Kasi and we almost cancelled due to tornadoes in the vicinity! We ended up hanging out anyways after the weather had passed. I don't see her often, but when I do see her it is as if we never missed a beat. Kasi and I have been friends now for 14 years! I can honestly say that her friendship is the only friendship where we were friends instantly. I mean seriously, the very moment we met it was like we had known each other our entire lives. We never have had to work at it. It comes so easily. She has a heart of gold and I wouldn't trade her for the world.

-Sunday was the windiest day ever! I am such a weather nerd, I loved to hear the wind howling through the trees and whistling around the side of the house. I layed around with a sinus headache all morning. The only medicine that helped was the snuggles with Dino, our Boston Terrier.

{Reagan enjoying Sunday by staying in P.j's all day! Excuse the mess in background}

-Sunday evening- I attempted to prep lunches for the entire week. Sunday's are my lazy days and also my days where I try to meal plan, lay out outfits for the week, organize and knock out our enormous piles of laundry. I can't make out like everything was rainbows and lollipops this weekend. I struggled yesterday, even cried a little before bedtime. Seems as though there is so much heartache in the world. Hearing of people with Cancer, seeing families go through Divorces, children sick or struggling. It can all be too much for my heart sometimes. I tend to carry others burdens in my heart. I am very empathetic. I just had to collect myself, my husband and I went to the Lord in prayer and that seemed to help ease my weary heart. Some days are just hard.

Hope you have a great week~ These stuck out to me this week so I thought I would share them with you all in case someone out there needs to hear it. Later, mermaids!