We were finally finally FINALLY back to a regular schedule… sorta. Xander started 3 new activities, so that was wasn’t normal, but overall, we were back to a regular schedule.
I could talk for HOURS about the importance of child-led play, letting kids get bored to be forced into creativity, and the risks of being in too many structured activities. So much of the fundamental programming of camp came from these philosophies and I feel passionate about kids being free to explore. So saying that Xander just started 3 new (structured) sports makes me cringe. Am I becoming a cliche mom who is over-planning her children’s lives? No. It’s less than 4 hours a week. He still has plenty of time for free play.
Xander is obsessed with basketball and SO excited to join the Y basketball league which is both practices AND games. He will practice for 45 minutes every Tuesday and then have a game every Saturday. He is THRILLED. On Wednesdays, he will be practicing with the MPA swim club. 1st grade is the youngest you can join and he has been talking about this since last year. On Thursdays, he will do after-school enrichment Karate class. He was VERY excited about it, but after the first class, he was concerned it was a bit “slow” so we’ll see if he likes it or not.
Augustus spent Monday with Grandma Debbie- Cain and Cora came over to swim and play. Behind Sam and Abby’s house is an awesome snow fort, so the boys spent some time after school playing outside. It was so nice to just have a regular week.
The new Kiwi Co boxes came last weekend and on Saturday, Gussie and I finally got to dig into his box. This month we made ravioli from scratch! We made the pasta dough, rolled it out, used the ravioli maker that was in his box, and boom!! Ravioli! Nate has been joking that I get the most excited about these boxes (accurate), but Augustus really enjoys doing it and is so proud at dinner when we eat what he makes.
The ravioli turned out pretty good! We rolled the pasta dough out as thin as I could, but it was thicker than store-bought. If we do it in the future, we might need to invest in the pasta maker attachment for my kitchen-aid. We also did an experiment and used pie crust, to make ravioli shaped tiny pies, filled with chocolate and marshmallow- dessert ravioli! For dinner, I also included store bought ravioli (just in case our homemade wasn’t good), so we had ravioli 3 ways. Gussie was proud of dinner and it was a really fun project. We will make ravioli again!
This weekend is low key and relaxing. Compared to last weekend’s craziness, I was super excited to have time to chill. Saturday was a day of playing and relaxing. We made ravioli, played video games, did a few chores, and hung out. It was great. Today the boys went to my mom’s house. They went to see Avatar and sat through the entire 3 hours! Nate and I had a hot date to the Home Remodeling Show. We have wild dreams of knocking down walls and remodeling our upstairs some day. We also want to replace some of our windows. At this point, we were just doing research, but it was fun to hang out and do something a little different. We went out to dinner and had a literal BOAT of sushi. Tomorrow is MLK day and no school, so the boys are spending the night at Grandma’s house. Nate and I are binge-watching a new show and eating fancy desserts on the couch. My favorite kind of weekend!
