The weekend

Friday afternoon I left work to pick up Girl Clean. She had played at Mawmaw's for the day and in the afternoon with her cousins when they got home from school.

Friday night was relaxed and fun. We just hung out together.

Saturday morning I had Jack up at 6. We ran 4 miles. All of them hurt. Usually when I start off I can get past the initial ouch, blech, this is awful and find a pleasant groove. Not so on Saturday morning. When we started at 6:30 the temperature was already 71. Which isn't bad but it was sticky. I determined that for this week I'm going to lay off the running and focus on other things.

Saturday after the run I showered and got ready, got Girl Clean up. I threw her hair up in a pony tail, a sundress on her body and had her to go breakfast of pop tarts ready. We were on the road at 9:10, if I can get out the door within 10 minutes of the time I state I want to leave I consider that success for something like this. She and I met my friend Nicole at the Charlotte Humane Society Pet Palooza event.

Girl Clean loves dogs! This event had lots of vendors, lots of dogs, and it was a really fun beautiful day! Jack Banner is not ready for something like this so he had to stay home. She enjoyed seeing all the different kinds of dogs and we both enjoyed the dog fashion show. Unfortunately I totally forgot the camera, I'm working on this, I know how much fun pictures are!

After the park fun she and I met Tiffany for lunch. I was super impressed with how well Girl Clean did. I easily forget that she is 3 and I have to check myself sometimes. Tiffany was laughing that all the kid paraphernalia was on my side of the table this time.

After lunch we drove home where I let Girl Clean play in the tub. Mr. Clean got home from running errands and we all hung out together before church.

Yesterday morning we decided to take advantage of the beautiful day and we went to the park. Jack and I walked while Girl Clean climbed like a monkey at the playground. When we got home Jack Banner was wiped out! Girl Clean was still going strong.

It was a truly great weekend that was just the right mixture of activity and relaxation.

I forgot to tell this story last week. Thursday afternoon I mentioned we had ordered pizza. When I left for the gym I had already eaten but Mr. Clean had not. He decided to run to the grocery store. I didn't think about the pizza we left on the table. Mr. Clean left Jack out since he was only going to be gone for a short time.

Jack Banner can jump, and jump high. He managed to knock the pizza down from the table. He then ate all the meat off the top of the pizza. I got home and Jack was in his crate. Mr. Clean explained what had happened. I offered to go pick him up another pizza or something else to eat and he said that wasn't necessary.

While I get that Jack shouldn't have gone for the pizza I also understand that Jack is going to take the opportunity when it's available to him. What I can say is that Mr. Clean's reaction was night and day different from what I would have expected a year ago, for that I am so very thankful!

Lesson learned, either put Jack up or put the food far out of his reach!!!