Hey friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We sure did- it helped that we actually got OUT and did things! Weather be damned! ;) We had a crazy storm (really heavey rain and hardcore wind!) on Saturday night, but other than that, it was just generally gloomy all weekend. Nothing we couldn’t handle though. Seriously, thought, this rain has got to stop. I mean, it’s amazing because we are no longer in a draught (yay!), but I’m over it. Time for some sunshine again! More park days are necessary for our sanity! :)
But anyway. This weekend.
We have a play group with just Sam once a week, which is always so much fun and he gets so much out of it! And I love that it’s a thing that’s just for Sam. I’ve found it’s so important to focus on each kid and make sure they each have one-on-one time with us and also something special just for them! For Sophie, it’s our Stroller Strides workouts/ play groups with the mamas and babies there. For Sam, it’s this play group. It makes everyone happy!
Sophie had her one year check up on Friday, which went beautifully and of course she is absolutely perfect. Nothing new there. ;) She is such a brave little girl and I’m so proud of how well she did!!!
Friday night we got bold and decided to go out to dinner, as a family! We literally NEVER do this. All fellow mamas know the struggle of getting everyone out the door and to a restaurant lol. It just doesn’t happen. But this weekend, Zack got the idea that we should go out, and so we packed up the kiddos and did just that! We went to our old stomping grounds, Spaghetti Factory (where Zack and I met and grew our “spaghetti love” haha), so it holds a special place in our hearts. And the kids were PERFECT LITTLE ANGELS! Like, I’m not even kidding. Swear. They couldn’t have done any better! They ate all their food (Sam ate the whole plate of pasta, and for a super picky kid? This was HUGE!!!) and were polite and well-behaved and had the best time! Oh my gosh. We pinched ourselves over and over. So, yay for being brave and taking chances! And for our kids wildly surpassing our expectations!
Which, by the way, are always super low, because I think that’s the key to sanity as a parent: keep those expectations reeeeeally low. Then they are almost always going to be surpassed haha. ;) But really. It was the best little family date night!
Saturday I went to brunch with a girlfriend, who is in the same season of life as me right now (seriously, we have eerily parallel lives!), and man it is such a blessing when you meet those friends who just “get it,” you know? We had some great conversation and drank champagne and had the best time. We stayed 3 hours, and I swear could have stayed much longer! Love that girl.
Saturday night, Zack and I finally finished the new Gilmore Girls and OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. Like, literally, I have so much to say on the matter. The ending! Rory!!! REALLY??! (I have an entire theory on this: She is repeating Lorelai’s story, with Logan being Christopher and Rory being Lorelai and Jess being her Luke… What do you think??) And the dancing scenes were… strange? But I cried like 20 times (Luke and Lorelai!!!!) and love Emily even more, and miss Richard so much, and SOOKIE!!! YES!!!! And oh gosh. I’m a mess, can you tell? All over the place. Basically, just feeling all of the feels and really banking on another season. So, get on that, Amy Sherman-Palladino. We’ll be waiting. ;)
Sunday morning, we went to a new church and LOVED it and I’m so excited to say we have found our home church!! Seriously, we’ve been going to the same one forever and were just over it, and this new one? It’s vibrant and awesome and we know so many people there already and they have such an amazing kids program! Ahhh just feeling really blessed and really excited about this new chapter. :)
And now it’s Monday!! Time to kick this week’s butt! I hope you had a great weekend, and are having an even better Monday.
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Finding the right church has made such a big difference in all areas of our lives! So excited for you guys!! Going out to eat with kids can be so unpredictable, glad to hear it went so well for you guys!! What a bummer you guys had more rain this weekend. We finally got a break here (67 on Saturday whaaat?) but are back to gloom again today.
I am so excited to have found the right church for us!! Seriously incredible! And yay for a little break in weather- spring will be here soon!! Right?!! haha ;)
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Sam running behind you in the first picture is so cute! And its been gloomy here in Michigan too :(
Haha I know!!! Welcome to my life- always a little toddler zooming past me ;)
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Forever obsessed with how you manage to always looks so classy & put together! It must be no small feat with two adorable littles. ;) You’re an inspiration — aaaaaaand, I’d love to steal your secrets! Any chance you could do a ‘morning routine” type of post, or something of that sort, where you spill all your ‘how to still be a human” tips? :) Eagerly awaiting your future posts!
Awww you are seriously so so so sweet!!! I promise, I do not ALWAYS look put together. I have my hot mess days, too. Belieeeeeeeve meeeee haha! I will definitely do a morning routine post, though, I love that idea!!!!
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Oh, girl! GILMORE. GIRLS. I bawled like a baby multiple times. (Hello? Richard. UGH.) I LOVED the story line they gave to Emily. She deserves her own little Sandcastle! At first I hated the ending! (and to be honest, Rory kind of annoyed me throughout the whole Year in the Life. I constantly wanted to yell at her and be like, “Get your ish together!” I feel like she was a bit….lost? Maybe that was Amy’s plan, but it annoyed me because that seemed out of character for her) Anyway, I agree with you! I think it’s a whole repeat scenario, and I have ALWAYS been team Jess so that makes me so happy! Fingers crossed for more episodes! :)
YES. Cried every time Richard was brought up, basically. So sweet. And YES to Rory annoying me the entire time- seriously, WHO is she now?? So out of character for her, all of her decisions. Ugh. Definitely need more episodes, though, and hoping for Rory to get her act together!!!
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I’m so torn on the GG reboot…I would have loved to see some other storylines, The bit with Rory’s boyfriend Paul in the first episode felt super out of character, so did the whole Wookie hookup part! Kurt & Lulu having a baby =needs to happen!! It definitely seems like she wants to have Rory/ Logan/ Jess parallel Lorelai/ Christopher/Luke, though I saw an article that suggested Rory & Logan could be like Emily & Richard.
I kind of wish the reboot had Rory pregnant at the beginning and it ended with her telling Lorelai she’s writing a book titled Gilmore Girls.
Definitely curious to see if there’s another one!
Yeah, the Paul thing was funny but definitely weird and so NOT “Rory.” I don’t like how much she’s changed and isn’t even at all the character we loved in the beginning!!! Yessss to Kirk and Lulu having a baby- that would be too good! Interesting about Rory and Logan being Emily and Richard… hmm… I’ll have to look for that article! There needs to be more!
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love it! glad you guys had a good weekend and ???????????????????? for finding a new home church! God is good! so happy for y’all! ❤️ xo hope you have a good week and more sunny skies than this weekend!
Yesss God is so good! Really glad we found our church! :) I hope you have a great week, too, Jaelah!
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Fingers crossed for more Gilmore Girls episodes!
Yes yes yes!!!! Give me alllll of the Gilmore Girls!
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