A Good Weekend

We had the very best outdoor weekend enjoying all of the snow. Ben and I took the boys sledding for the first time--which they absolutely loved! The boys pretty much spent the rest of the weekend playing in the back yard and warming up with some hot cocoa!

While the boys were outside playing--I'm pretty sure Luke and Henry racked up close to 8 hours outside--I spent my time inside getting random projects done as I sat by the open window keeping an eye on them. I basically had to drag them inside when it was time to come in!

One of the best things about outside weekends is just sitting down and watching the boys play. I listen to the boys a lot as they play through out the day, but it isn't very often that I get to just sit with no real distractions and listen to what they are really saying.

I love listening to them talk to each other--even how they talk to and play with Josh who desperately tries to keep up with them. It's fun to listen to what they say--I just get so much insight into how thier little minds work and they stuff that they pay attention too. It reminds me a lot of when Amy and I were little.

They didn't really talk about anything important--in fact I don't even remember very much about what they actually talked about--but I think that's how most of thier conversations are!

The good thing about weekends outside is that I step back a little bit as a momma. I let them make a mess and get dirty. I let them wrestle and play rough. If they start fighting, which isn't that often when they are outside, I make them work it out on thier own--I ususally try to stay out of it but it's a lot easier when they aren't actually in the house!

I love outdoor weekends. They are so much less stressful for everyone and those kind of lazy days at home are usually more productive in every way. I just have to resign myself to the fact that I'll have a bit of extra laundry and floor cleaning to do at the end of the day!