A Very Productive Day

A good Saturday today: the right balance of fun/work/play. Here's what this Saturday looked like at our house:

We got up and went garage sale shopping right after breakfast as it was the Bon Accord town-wide garage sale. Items purchased:

• Two fishing rods -$3
• One snowsuit for a little lady -$15 (Love having this done in advance!)
• One golf putting game/practice thingey -$5 (Jack was in heaven this afternoon!)
• Two Usborne Books for kid crafting -$5

After that we came home and tidied and hung out for a bit. I visited the new shop of my friend Gayle. She has a children's boutique and sells dress up clothes. For the past year her business has been home based but today was the opening day of her brand new shop. Yay Gayle!

Made lunch, tacos, yummy!

Darrel and Julie had a nap. I submitted all the pre-school graduation photos for printing and browsed facebook. The boys watched TV.

Once everyone was awake we went outside and did some yardwork. Darrel cut down some of the trees behind the back fence that have succumbed to that weird disease. I weeded the front flower bed. Apparently it was really cold last night. Some of my plants had been damaged by frost. Egads -it's June, come on summer!

Darrel and the boys then went to the driving range. Julie and I ran to the drugstore. When we got home she and I did supper prep, picked rhubbarb and made a cake. Julie took out all the forks and "set the table". (She loves to do that!) Also threw in a load of laundry. I have about 8 sitting down there. No word of a lie. Ugh. (anybody want to come to my house and fold?)

The boys all returned home and Darrel BBQ'd steak for supper. Tinfoil potatoes and carrots, corn on the cob, and steak. Talk about a summer time meal. (Even if the weather was not summery).

Kids all had a bath after supper. Then story time. Julie went to bed. Then dessert time for the rest of us (that cake was calling our name.) Lest you feel bad for Julie, you should know that she conned her way into a package of skittles at the drugstore when she and I went earlier. And she mooches candy and sweets all the day long. :) Couple of more stories for the boys, then off to bed.

Darrel and I worked on designing a photo frame that he is going to cut out with his CNC. Super excited about it.Then prepared the lesson we are teaching together (on marriage and family relations no less!)  Then I did RS stuff (newsletter, new VT routes cut out so they can be distributed, Birthday list for June) while Darrel watched a movie and now it's 11pm and I'm ready for bed (after maybe one little game on facebook).