We had a productive weekend

This past weekend was very productive.  Extremely busy, but that was part of what helped us to be productive!

It started Friday afternoon when Andrew and I headed north to attend the visitation of my cousin's ex-wife.  Neither of us particularly wanted to go, and for the most part, our side of the family wasn't particularly welcome.  However, three children are involved and we felt it was important to make an appearance.  While we didn't love being there, it was nice that Andrew and I had an hour car ride each way.  It was just he and I, and we had nothing to do but chat with only each other.  We don't have a lot of time for things like that these days.

Andrew was gone literally all day, and then again all evening Saturday.  I got Thomas to school for set construction and then ran a bunch of errands.  After attending the memorial service Saturday, my day was just getting a few things done around the house...and nothing major.

Sunday we had a meeting after church, then dropped Thomas at school again, before heading out to my aunt & uncle's house with the chainsaw.  They had hoped we could help with yard work last fall, but that never happened.  After more damage to trees occurred from an ice storm, we really needed to get out there before spring really got started.  Another cousin met us there, and it was really nice to be able to get things picked up for them.  It was nice to have that done!  We stopped at the grocery on the way home for a couple of dinner things, and then we headed home.

This was the most important part of our weekend...Andrew fixed our dryer!!!!  The part had arrived Saturday and Sunday late afternoon was the first opportunity Andrew really had to work on it.  Fortunately, it worked exactly as it was supposed to, and when we plugged it in and pressed "start", it did exactly what it was supposed to do!  I don't know the last time I was so excited about doing laundry!  Because the dryer was fixed I was able to get all the drying racks taken down and put away.  I was then able to organize and pack the storage tubs that had been sitting around.  That isn't completely finished, but major progress made.  It was wonderful to have such a productive weekend!