An early November weekend

We had a busy weekend, but overall I definitely enjoyed it.  It seems so hard to believe that we are already six days into November!

On Friday, Thomas had and after school activity.  I picked him up, then dropped the other two off at their first swim practice of the season.  I dropped Thomas off at home, and he and Andrew left for our former town to take in a football game.  I went to the church office to work for a couple of hours before picking the other two up and dropping them off at a team dinner.  Because we don't trust Robert's choices right now, we don't trust him to drive very much.  I stayed in town and grabbed myself something to eat and the three of us finally made it home around 9:00.  Andrew and Thomas got home a little over an hour later.  It was Midnight before we tumbled into bed, and although we were able to sleep in Saturday, we all had places to be in the morning.

Andrew took Robert to a Navy required activity that lasted until late morning.  Catherine needed to be at school to attend her final marching band event of the season, and Thomas had art lessons.  After getting Thomas home, I took care of a few things, and then headed out the door for a weekly grocery trip.  We learned early afternoon that Catherine's band had not made finals (which we suspected would be the case).  We had all decided on Friday that after that the football games on Saturday we would all sit around and watch new episodes of "Big Bang Theory, Season 10" which had arrived earlier in the week.  We were extremely disappointed in the Ohio State game, but our Notre Dame Irish continued to roll along.  Then we sat and laughed together for a couple of hours while we watched several episodes.  It was so much fun.  Even though the kids chose to stay up, Andrew and I were in bed at 10:30.  With gaining that extra hour, we were able to sleep for 10-1/2 hours!  It honestly felt a little bit like a dream come true! 

Church lasted longer than normal yesterday and then Andrew had a meeting following.  We had lunch plans with some good friends and spent two hours visiting with their family.  We are so grateful for these people in our lives!  The kids all get along so well and honestly, they are really like family.  In the evening, the kids had a church youth group function, and I worked, and worked, and worked on my volunteer activities.

It was such a full weekend, and Monday morning came around so quickly again.  Tomorrow though, is not a school day for students (Andrew still has to be there) so even though there are tons of appointments happening, we get to sleep in!