#weekends are so much less restful with children 🫠

[abcd-adventures]

I don't think I'd make it through the summer with B without a pool. He has SOOO much energy, and we took a walk at, like, 9:30 and it was already ungodly hot. I got out of the pool after an hour, but he's still just jumping in over and over; I'm cool with just hiding from the mosquitoes in the screened-in patio and letting him jump as long as he wants.

I just finished signing him up for trial classes for guitar lessons, Kung Fu, and watercolor (we are just not a sports family 🤷🏼‍♀️). He already does swimming lessons. I just need more (indoor) weekend activities for this child because he's driving me insane, and I refuse to increase his technology time (as flipping tempting as that is). He's going to help the husband make kombucha after this, so maybe I'll be able to sneak in a few minutes to read. 🤞

When C was around B's age, I lived in single-parent/married student housing on campus, and there were all these kids always around to boot C out to play with. Our neighborhood now does not have that, and organizing play dates just isn't always something I'm in the mood for, selfishly. I do NOT want to deal with other people's children, so exchanging drop-offs with kids this age is just not something I'm willing to do, and play date meet-ups require me to chat with the other kid's parent, and plenty of times I don't mind that, but this weekend I just don't have it in me. 🤷🏼‍♀️