Productive Weekend

I know that sounds weird since we are a family always on the go but because of our schedules I feel like nothing productive ever gets done. We are always running behind on cleaning, laundry, canning, crafts.... you name it but this weekend we stayed home most of the time and got a lot of productive things done.

Friday night over dinner we told the kids that if they picked up the front room then that night that we would have more time to play on saturday and since it was a treat on saturday they really wanted that extra time. While they picked up Mike and I put together a plan for the weekend and our menu for the next week. After that we sat as a family and watched some shows that have been on our DVR forever and then I went to bed while Mike and Beau stayed up to play video games. I know the video games don't seem like something productive but for a man that has always loved them but never gets to play them and has a son that keeps begging for him to play them it was much needed. Beau got lots of game time with his dad this weekend and he seemed like the happiest kid ever. We play boardgames and stuff like that all the time but I think it was something about getting older kid time with his dad and something he loves that tipped the scale.

Saturday we woke up and did laundry and then coupons and then shopping and then it was time to go to the water park in town. The kids love it and the kids section is huge and 3 ft deep allowing mike and I to just lounge in the kids area and watch Link and Princess while Beau runs around anywhere he wanted which seemed to be right next to us. Link is amazing in his swimming skills. He is three and will dive under water and just swim away. The first few times we went swimming I could tell people were nervous but he has proven to the world that he is a born aqua lad. Princess is not as daring but when she can no longer put up with link getting the attention she will try something too. It is funny to watch.

We then went home and canned 6 quarts of beef stew meat and while it processed I made bows with Princess (Beau actually made some too) while Mike and Beau played a few more games. Link had passed out pretty early, we thought it was because of all the swimming but........

Sunday we woke up to a sick little boy. Link has had a runny nose all week but with the weather I figured it was a sinus issue. It might still be but he was running a low fever and slept all morning. We did cook a big breakfast and cleaned and canned 7 quarts of red beans before church and since we still had not figured out that Link was getting worse we headed to church.
We only stayed for Sacrament because I figured out that it was a fever and so we high tailed it home. That gave me more time to can 8 pints of black beans and keep doing laundry.

It was such a relaxing productive weekend and I hope that I get a few more before this mind of mine burns out. Mike starts class back tonight after only 2 weeks off and it is right back to crazy town. It is nice to know that if I had the time I could be one killer mom/ house wife.