weekending ...

Every Sunday night, Pam at Views from my Kitchen Sink does the cutest posts entitled "weekending" where she recaps her busy weekends in the form of a list -  and by list I mean just a simple collection of words to give you the flavor of all that went on.  I love the simplicity and have wanted (and more often needed!) to condense my own recaps down to just a few words ... well, if ever there was a weekend to condense all that we did down to just a few simple words, this last one was it!  I'm not exactly known for being short on words, so let's see how well I do with it - here goes ...

Thursday after school - it's all about the Girl Scout Cookies!

Town delivery

First sort by troop

Then sort by girl

Then sort your order and deliver!

YUM!

yes, this car is filled all the way to the front seats - this is the "sort by troop" stage, thank goodness!

Friday morning - 4th grade play ... 

in front of 300 students of all ages and about 70-ish parents.

Gulp!

Despite her jitters, little ladybug pulls off an amazing performance with just the right flair and projection

... and sported a crazy blonde wig that brought on lots of extra compliments too ...

Dinner out to celebrate.

Girl Scout cookies on the couch in our pj's ...

... watching the last of the American Idol auditions.

Saturday morning: 3 hours of skate practice.

Saturday afternoon: delivery of Girl Scout cookie orders.

Early to bed for the skaters.

Mombug off to see The King's Speech with some girlfriends (soooo good - run, don't walk!).

Sunday all day ... parked ourselves at the skate rink ...

Little ladybug skates her heart out ...

Big ladybug follows with an amazing routine ...

Manbug and the other dad volunteers crunch the judge's scoring numbers all afternoon ...

Mombug mans the last shift of the sales boutique once the ladybugs get off the ice for the day.

(our skate club hosted their once/year "Valentine's" competition with a handful of other New England clubs ~who traveled from the Cape, New Hampshire, Vermont, etc~ as our guests.  135 girls (and 2 boys!) competed in 220 events from 7:30 am to 5 pm.)  

Long day ...

So hard to grab a good photo of them while they're skating, I do have great video but still need to convert it to digital for uploading and sharing.  And, yes, those are gold medals on those blue ribbons - fantastic day, they nailed their categories - way to go, bugs!

Off to our favorite Chinese restaurant to celebrate.

Hot showers to clean off stage makeup/hair.

Fresh pj's and America's Funniest Home Videos.

Snuggles and Kisses and off to bed ...

Monday morning ...

Happy Valentine's Day!  

Grouchy tired faces from the bugs, both of whom were woken from a deep sleep for school

Smiles return when they discover Mommy's Valentine's cards hidden in their underwear drawers

Off to school ...

Ok ok, so clearly I have a little work to do if I'm going to get it down the simplicity of Pam's weekending lists - but at least it's a start ...

Happy Valentine's Day!