A Nearly Vegetative Recap

Well, it was a good and busy long weekend (President's Day), but hard to recover from given that there's been something going on every evening. Eli's Exploratorium party was on Sunday (and it went very well overall, considering, though next time it would probably have been easier if we weren't also chaperoning other parents' kids). We got to run around the museum for an hour or so (I feel like I never have enough time or attention to fully experience that place--good thing we live so close and are members…now we just have to take advantage of that). After that we went to the party room for a couple of science activities and some cake and goodie bags, then back out again for some more museum time. Sunday night we went out to dinner with the entire No-Cal Dvorin clan (Chinese food, naturally, since it was Chinese New Year…and Gung Hay Fat Choy to y'all) and stayed up way too late talking with family afterwards. Monday (President's Day) Josh had to work but I stayed home with both kids; it was one of those busy busy stay-at-home mom solo parent days (Josh came home briefly with groceries and then took off again to spend the evening with a friend), full of housework and playdates and craft projects, but satisfying in its own efficiently managed way. Then Monday night it was time for Girlz Gamin' (another night of staying up way too late, but also fun), and Tuesday it was back to work, then out after dinner for a writer's group meeting. Today I had to leave work early so we could go to the first meeting of Eli's new Little League--ok, T-ball--team (please don't mock me for adding yet another thing to our social schedule, we really are doing it for Eli's sake, I swear). I'm sure there will be more Little League stories in the days to come, but tonight's meeting was really just a meet and greet along with a non-subtle arm-twisting to get us parents to volunteer for various team-related duties (yeah right).

Whew! Tonight is the first night I've had time to sit and think about how busy the last few days have been. And frankly, despite the temptation to fill up my "free" time with more of my own ongoing creative projects or vegetative pleasures (not sure which one blogging counts as, if either), I think I should just resist and go to bed. (Which I guess is the supreme vegetative pleasure, come to think of it.)