The Weekend Hustle

This weekend was busy and relaxed all rolled into one. It started with husband’s work Christmas party on Friday night. Yay kid free night! And an excuse to dress up nice. The previous years Christmas party had a magician, this year it was a murder mystery Christmas Party. Sort of like Clue, there were facts about the characters on our table and we had to guess who was the murderer and their motive. The actors and actresses incorporated one of hubby’s co workers to play a character as well. Each character came by and talked to us once or twice. It was a lot of fun and in the end I had the correct culprit and motive!

The kiddos got to go to The Northern Spirit Light Show with Grandma, Grandpa and their cousins. Then my son had soccer Saturday morning. So far I’m really liking the organization and variety of drills at indoor soccer practice! We’ve only done outdoor soccer games before. Saturday was relaxing and filled with family, movies and muffin making.

On Sunday, I kicked it into high gear and tackled the one side of our basement( one sides finished the other is incomplete) and the craft corner in our kitchen. Oh my goodness! I know sensory play is important but I vacuumed up a whole canister full of coloured rice off the basement floor. Needless to say, the kids hadn’t played with the sensory table that was fall themed with beans as a filler, for a few months. I decided it was time to part with as the mess it created brought on anxiety and I prefer the smaller bins at the kitchen table anyways.

In the basement, I also got rid of a broken electric race track and downsized our wooden train track lot. Our basement isn’t set up how I’d like it but it’s getting there. Next big project is to move the 7ft trampoline outside or into the unfinished side of our basement. There’s a lovely space behind our sectional that would make the perfect play area once the trampoline is out if that space. The kids in the trampoline gives me a heart attack quite often so it might be time to get rid of all together and opt for the smaller one person style.

What’s with surfaces being magnets for clutter? We had a desk in our kitchen for the purpose of LEGO play for my son, when my daughter was two. It turned into a piled up mess of craft supplies. I got a white cabinet on Black Friday sale last year. Just built it last month, procrastination at its finest. It’s perfect for storing all the colouring books, markers, paints, play dough etc. So now the lovely white cabinet has replaced the cluttered desk in our kitchen.

And that was the extent of our busy, yet chill weekend hustle!