This probably sounds way too dramatic but I wanted a really low-key weekend because by Friday night I was just d-o-n-e with the week. We actually had a great week but it was a busy one and I was admittedly rather sleep-deprived all week long. And, honestly, our house looked like a huge disaster most of the week and it was bugging the heck out of me so one of the main objectives I had on my weekend to-do list was to get our house looking semi-decent again. Big goals, my friends.
Friday
On Friday morning, I had my last workout at the Burn Boot Camp location I’ve been going to since Chase was 8 weeks old.
My local BBC is merging with another boot camp to create one mega Burn Boot Camp which will be amazing but it was also oddly emotional to see the doors to a place so many of us love so much come to a close. I have the best memories at my first BBC and credit the gym with helping me make some of my closest friends (and some of Chase’s BFFs) in a town that still felt very new to me when I first joined the gym in the fall of 2015. As of today, I’ll be attending the new BBC location and I know it will feel a little weird not to be going back to the place where I’ve been working out for 3+ years but I have high hopes for the new location.
After my final BBC workout, I headed off to the pediatrician with the boys for Ryder’s four-month appointment. Ryder’s checkup morphed into a double appointment for Chase because I needed the doctor’s help to remove a big splinter from the bottom of Chase’s foot that he would not let me or Ryan anywhere near. (It didn’t seem to hurt him but I figured it wasn’t something we should let hang out in his heel.) Well, let’s just say digging a splinter out of a three-year-old’s foot was an adventure. Please picture me holding a half-naked baby in one arm and a sobbing three-year-old in the other. I think I lived 1,000 lives in those five minutes.
After our doctor’s appointment, we met up with friends for a birthday play date and then I proclaimed our Friday night a mandatory night in because I just wanted to crash. I made a big batch of granola that ended up being my dinner and climbed into bed to read the minute Ryan and I got the boys down for the night.
Saturday
Ryder only woke up once in the night on Friday (WOOHOO!) so I awoke on Saturday feeling like a new woman. It’s amazing what sleep can do to rejuvenate you, huh!? One of my favorite ways to spend a Saturday morning with my family is at our local YMCA because Ryan and I can work up a sweat and then we love spending time doing something active with Chase and Ryder once our workouts are done.
I ended up joining a Group Power class for my workout on Saturday morning and loved it!
The format was very similar to BodyPump and we spent a little under an hour completing a total-body strength workout.
Once I was done, Ryan and I met back up and scooped Chase and Ryder up from childcare and headed to the basketball courts!
While Ryan and Chase played basketball (and soccer since Chase pretty much morphs any sport with a ball into soccer these days), I nursed Ryder and then we cheered on Dad and Big Brother!
Eventually we were all hungry, so we made the short 1/2 mile walk to Clean Juice where we picked up smoothies for our crew before walking back to the car and heading home.
We joked that the smoothies more or less served as our lunch appetizers because we were easily swayed by the giant “NOW OPEN” banner we saw outside of a new burger spot near our house. We popped into Little Big Burger for burgers and fries for lunch 2.0 and eventually made it home with full bellies.
While Ryan settled Chase down for his nap, I nursed Ryder and then hopped in the shower. I then spent most of the boys’ nap time researching candidates and amendments for the midterm election tomorrow.
Just in case you haven’t figured out how you’ll be voting, I found the websites Ballotpedia.org and VoteSmart.org to be very helpful!
We spent the rest of our Saturday close to home and had a family movie night complete with hot chocolate.
I gave Ryan some of our favorite peppermint hot chocolate for our anniversary. We give this hot chocolate to each other every year for Christmas but I jumped the gun a bit when I saw it available early at Williams-Sonoma. It’s the best!
Sunday
Chase and Ryder didn’t get the memo about the time change on Sunday morning so we were up around 5 a.m. and that was after a rather restless night. Ooph!
We kept Sunday pretty low key and made it out to the morning service at church before heading back home. I had a baby shower to attend for a friend in the early afternoon and then we ended up wrapping up our weekend with a trip to the grocery store for everything we needed for this week’s meal plan.
Here’s a peek at our meal plan for the week:
- Monday: Easy Crockpot Chicken Corn Chili
- Tuesday: Paleo Pizza Spaghetti Pie
- Wednesday: Easy Baked Chicken Thighs with Baked Sweet Potatoes and Sauteed Kale, Onions and Apples
- Thursday: Leftovers
- Friday: Zoodles with Bolognese Sauce
And now I’m off to get this Monday rockin’! Hope you all have a great week!
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How do you do it??? Your version of a laid back weekend sounds like a version of a busy weekend for me. I literally didn’t leave my house on Sunday. Pretty sure I spent the entire day on the couch convincing my two boys that playing “naptime” was a really fun game!
Playing naptime sounds like the best game ever! 🙂 We definitely had a lot of couch time on Sunday and Saturday, too! I sometimes think reading a blog post can make it seem like our day was go, go, go just because it captures our activities of the day but there is definitely a lot of downtime at home in there, too! We were home by 1 p.m. on Saturday and didn’t leave the house after that (woohoo for movie night!) so that definitely felt like a laid back day to me. I admittedly genuinely like to do a lot and get out of the house and Ryan and our boys seem to be the same way so that seems to keep us out and about a lot! We love home time as well, but a mix of activity and home time is my favorite!
When my daughter was first learning to walk she went barefoot into some bark dust and ended up with tons of little painful splinters D: Pulling those out of her little baby foot was horrifying. And I have since become the official splinter remover for my son and for her and its the WORST JOB. Lol. At least my husband is the band aid remover. <3
Okay now I really want some hot chocolate!! Haha gets me excited for the holidays!! And your meal plan for the week sounds great, pizza spaghetti pie sounds really good and I think my kids will love it too!
That hot chocolate is the BEST. Also, I love your leggings in your workout pics! Do you mind sharing where they’re from? I’m in the market for ankle-length especially!
Yes! They’re the lululemon align 25” pant! –> http://bit.ly/2yTLXVb i am with you on loving the ankle-length! i also love fabletics’ 7/8 pants which hit in the same spot above the ankle.
That sounds like my version of a really busy weekend! But I think I tend to be more a homebody, and my kiddos are the same way.
How is sweet Callie doing? We have been hoping and praying for an update, and that she is out of the NICU and home with her loving parents. I’m a two time NICU mom myself (my middle son was a little bit premature, and my oldest was full-term but had a number of complications, including a heart issue, breathing challenges, and some other stuff, so we spent the first two months of his young life in the NICU with him getting him stabilized.) Our time was frightening, as people often think of the NICU as a place for preemies, and don’t realize that full-term babies often have to spend time there too (and can be some of the sickest ones there, as they’re there for a reason, not just due to early birth). I found that creating community by talking about the challenges of our situation helped me gain so many resources for our family, but also helped our family members manage all of the emotions as well, because people wanted to give us so much love during that time.
Hi Julie!
Long time reader here but never comment. Just popping in to thank you for your continued-amazing blog through the years.
BTW-does Ryder nap during your morning workout? I have a 6 month old and am trying to figure out how to make it to the gym in the morning but she usually goes down for a nap around 9. I guess she would get used to napping there? Would love to here what you do for Ryder.
Many thanks!
Hi Sarah! Navigating naps is so tricky! Ryder usually takes a cat nap (30-45 min) before we have to leave for Chase’s preschool drop of every morning and somehow that seems to give him energy and he is usually awake during my workouts but ready for a longer morning nap when I get home from the gym. Sometimes he will fall asleep in childcare but that seems to be happening less and less often these days.
When I just had Chase & didn’t need to wake him up for any reason, I was a big fan of the 8:30am boot camp class and then I’d rush home and put him down for his best nap of the day which was usually right at 9:30am!
Thank you, Julie! 🙂
Yay for festive hot chocolate! It’s chilly and rainy in PA now and I’ve been loving all the festive hot beverages! Glad you got some rest in this weekend. That time change is killer for moms, isn’t it?!
Hey Mama – you may already know this, and it doesn’t effect everyone negatively, but peppermint is a herb that commonly decreases breast milk supply – just wanted to pass it along in case you hadn’t heard that before. I am a HUGE peppermint fan and am sad about having to skip it this holiday season. I do believe artificial peppermint flavoring is totally fine though 🙂
Hi Julie! Your weekend sounds amazing, but it definitely sounds like a busy weekend in our house! (family of homebodies, right here!)
How is sweet Callie doing? She is in our prayers – I am a 2x NICU mama, once with a preemie, and once with a full-term baby, and quite honestly, the second time, with my full-term babe, was actually much harder than the preemie, who was developing fine, just a little early. My second had a host of other, larger issues (breathing and heart issues, etc). I was very open about those struggles, because I gained so much strength from other NICU mamas who had gone through those issues as well, and it helped me feel more alone.
Sending many prayers and lots of love to Leslie, Ross, and Callie, and all of you guys who must be very worried about her!
Thank you so, so much for thinking of Callie, Nancy. We are especially grateful for the prayers! I’d love to share more but the big sister in me is just trying to respect their privacy right now and likely will not be sharing too much until they’re ready for a visitor but I will say that all updates have been extremely positive. Also, thank you for sharing a little bit about your NICU experience with me. I’m so glad your little ones received great care but I’m so sorry for the stress you must have been under during that time. <3 Thanks again for thinking of them!!
I’ve been reading your blog for years, and when I found out there is a burn boot camp opening near me I knew I had to try it! I’ve been to a few of the pop up camps, and am super pumped for them to open next week! When they asked how I heard about it I was like, well this blogger I follow raves about it all the time…. ?
How do you like utilizing childcare at your gym? We’re thinking about joining a big gym here that has a really great kids program but I’m wondering if I’m going to feel guilty dropping them or worrying too much! They both go to daycare, so I’m not worried about germs or anything, but just feeling guilty about even MORE time spent away from them! BUT, being able to workout and have time to myself to stay fit while they play and have fun would be so nice!!
Way to go!! Man that sounds like a nice weekend, you’ve earned it!
Yayyyyy for festive hot chocolate!!! It is cold and rainy is MA, so hot beverages sound so good right now. I just got home from Disney, and going from 80 degree weather to now 40 degrees is a killer. I can’t warm up! Your weekend sounds so great, Julie! I love that picture of Chase playing basketball, he is getting so big! I hope you are having a great week! Xoxo
As a new mom i am so impressed by your schedule! My little guy is only 6 weeks so i know it will be a while before things are truly consistent but I was wondering if you could talk about how you got your guys on a consistent sleeping/napping schedule? or what a day in the life looks like for you guys?
Hi Katie!! I actually frequently share day-in-the-life style posts on my blog and you can find them categorized here: https://www.pbfingers.com/category/day-in-the-life/
I hope this helps!! <3 And congrats on your little one!