I know Rilyn's 11 month update is coming soon, but so much has been going on I felt the need to blog. Let me just tell you that I sat down with a huge stack of papers to grade, ending up spray tanning, painting my nails, uploading pictures onto my computer, and blogging instead. I'm SUCH a good teacher. :) Anyway, our weekend went a little somethin' like this:
Friday: Let me just tell you, with the "short" week last week, by the time Friday rolled around, my students and I were stru-gg-ling. Okay mostly me. The sun was shining and once the buses left, I was outta there! Ri & I had a fun little shopping trip to Target to get a present for our friend Karson (who was turning one on Sunday) and browse the clearance section. OH & get Starbucks. Then we wandered over to Caldwell to watch Sienna play basketball. Ri had a BLAST playing with Shianne & Sienna's nephews and was such a little charmer. She usually just stares at people. Literally stares. No smiles cracked, no laughs, funny faces, nothing. So for her to actually be social and show off her little personality just warmed my heart! We made it home pretty late, had a minor major meltdown, then passed out until 7:30 Saturday morning. (Yes, I do count that as sleeping in.)
Saturday: If any of you know me, you know I truly have the worst memory in the world. Today at work someone asked me what I did on Saturday and I just stared at them like this:
But anyway, moving on. Saturday kind of got away from me, but in the evening, my mom watched Ri and I had a yummy dinner (and margs of course) with my friend Jessica at Jalapenos!
Sunday: Sunday morning was my favorite part of the whole weekend! Usually on the weekends, Ri will wake up a little later than usual (between 7:30-8:30). I will get her out of her crib, change her diaper, make her a bottle, and put her in bed with me. This Sunday morning was the first time I showed her some cartoons up close on the iPad. We watched a solid of 15 minutes of Pocahontas and laid next to each other. I say this because Rilyn takes after me and is definitely NOT a snuggler. I take that back, she snuggles everyone except mom. It's really cool. After our little cartoon spell, my mom made us a huge breakfast and Ri had pancakes for the first time. She's obsessed! Then we got ready, she took a tiny nap, and then her dad picked her up for a fun filled day with her brother and sister. I went on a nice little run and drove to Boise for my good friend Kayla's son's first birthday party! I love that her little boy is so close to Ri in age and I was able to get some ideas for how the frick to throw a first birthday party. (I'm soooooo stressed about it) All in all, it was a very fun, busy weekend! I love busy weekends, but sometimes I forget to do stuff like laundry, grading papers, cleaning, going grocery shopping, etc. so I am really looking forward to a relaxing weekend here within the next year or two. :)
A little off topic but definitely necessary: I stress out SO easily. Like over the dumbest things. I don't like throwing parties or having a lot of people around or feeling like I have to entertain/make people happy and comfortable and make small talk and all that jazz. So having a kid requires having to be a functioning human being like that which I really struggle with. I know first birthday parties are supposed to be small and simple, but I feel all this pressure to go above and beyond and it's really stressing me out. So if any of you have any suggestions (besides a vodka-Xanax martini) please throw them my way. :)
