weekend ramble (the stillest of weekends)

This weekend had an Original Plan but got waylaid by a sick kid.

Instead of heading out of town with our sweet friends, we all stayed at home.  Where we hardly left the house and instead rested and recovered and tried to monitor all the ways in which we could keep any sickness from spreading throughout all of us.

We watched some TV.  This is the first year we’ve ever really fully embraced American Idol.  The boys can’t stand it.  The girls all love it.  It’s sort of ridiculous how much I have enjoyed it this season.  I just love seeing the judges be so encouraging to these young kids who often don’t have a clue as to how talented they actually are.  Which is endearing.

Those of us healthy enough spent time basking in the glorious sunshine and enjoying the dreamy, pleasant spring weather.  Bergen and I tried to take a bike ride and I immediately realized how I have gotten shamefully out of shape again.  What on earth?  Why is physical fitness so hard to maintain? Lame.  That’s just lame.  

We read a lot of books.  Otto finally hit upon a novel series that he willingly is reading and is wildly enjoying and it makes my book-loving heart so happy.  It’s Harry Potter and although the rest of his family has been onboard the train to Hogwarts for ages, he has never climbed on.  Now he’s fully engaged and immersed and it’s like he’s finally joined the team.  I also enjoyed the luxury of reading for long bouts of time this weekend and it was most restful.  I can sense how my retirement (!) might be spent.  I am more than halfway through Surprised by Oxford and I adore it.  I started and finished The Hate U Give and found it to be a truly compelling and eye opening novel.  I have so many thoughts about both novels.

And that’s actually about all that happened at this house this weekend.

Highly unusual for a weekend to be like this for us lately – and although we were sad to have a sick family member and sad to miss out on a fun and anticipated weekend, the silver lining for sure was the peace and the calm and the lack that permeated our home the past two days.

It settled on us in a warm and inviting way and slowed our pace and gently set us right again – I hope.

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