It has been a productive weekend for us, the kind of weekend it's been difficult to have for several years and which we'd missed. Craig and I worked on the basement rehab yesterday, reorganizing the laundry room and his work space and putting down a floor. Today, Craig kept going on the boys' section of the basement and I went on a cleaning binge upstairs.
The most exciting part of this? We did it with all of our boys at home the whole time (along with several friends), and not even a naptime. They wandered in and out of the house, playing basketball and football in the yard, making endless paper airplanes and playing the Wii during yesterday's rain. Today, they helped me clean their rooms before heading outside once again. I checked in with them periodically, settled minor conflicts and gave them a ton of food and they were good to go. We ended each day with some family time (made more exciting on Saturday by the loss of power we experienced), but got the time to focus on a task.
It wasn't ideal, I admit. I was pulled back and forth between kids and work and was pretty wiped out at the end of it all. It was, however, a big step forward for us. With two of the kids 5 or older, we have officially entered a new, less intense, phase of parenting. While I still miss parts of having a house full of babies and toddlers, I have to confess that I am welcoming this new era with open arms.
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