A long weekend and Various Ramblings

It was a sort of a  long and awesome weekend, with various points of exhaustion and frustration. It was my first taste of our new life starting next week. My husband who works in private care is having a shift change from 12 hour shifts 3 days a week to a live-in position. He will work from am Thursday to am Saturday. He worked from am Friday to am Sunday this week and I have to admit, I hope it goes better working Thursday and Friday, then it did working Friday and Saturday. It was a very L---O---N---G weekend.  It wasn’t all bad. But it seemed like all I did was run around doing household work. I don’t know if I am just spoiled to having Matt to do things or bounce ideas off from. And, I stayed up way too late. Which I do not do if Matt is there reminding me it is time for bed.

Aaron was actually okay with the change. He did say a couple of times he missed Daddy but that is not unusual. We painted a house he had been working on and made furniture for it out of play-doh (I will take pictures of it as soon as I get a new camera) and he played Sims Moon Colony and listened to 80’s music. We mostly just hung out and played and went to the pool.

When Matt got home we went to the pool again and Aaron finally got up the nerve to take the test to swim in the deep end of the outdoor pool. I am not sure why it may be the size of the outdoor pool but he never wanted to take it before but on Sunday he said he wanted to swim with us so he went and got the life guard and did the test and passed. We always knew he would but, he was so excited he did a little dance and then he hung out on the deep end all afternoon. None of the other kids his age there were in the deep end but he really just wanted to play with us anyway.

After supper we played a game of Scrabble and Aaron loved it, he kept score (math!! HAHAHA) and played some pretty tricky words, I was very proud of him. He has always loved to play games but for a long time we couldn’t play a whole game without him throwing a temper either over the changing score or because he didn’t like the rules and wanted to make up new ones. It was so frustrating to play with him but over the last few months he has come a long way.

Money has been on my mind a lot this week actually, our lack of money has been on my mind. We pay our bills fine but we don’t really have a lot for extras right now but we also don’t use credit cards and it is worth it to us to miss out on a few things because of finances. There are times I wish we had a credit card but I know we are much better without one. This weekend was one of the times I wished we had a card because it was Farm Weekend, when all the farms in the area open up to the public and give tours, that part is free but they always have stuff that cost money to buy  and  I hate to go and not have money to buy something from each one. SO we missed out going because we were broke. BOO! Am I the only one? Sometimes I feel like I am especially when I see friends and family running around and spending money on trips and new things for their kids. *Sigh* I know I shouldn’t compare with other people but being a real person it is hard not to have that feeling at least in passing. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” –Buddha and I am working on it and I am already letting it go…letting it go…letting it go.
So, basically it was a good weekend. Some more changes are coming to our schedule but I think it will be good, I know it will be good because for the first time in 5 years, we will all be together for almost 2 whole days a week!!!