Related: we ate lunch at 3:30 on Saturday and ate dinner at 4:30 on Sunday to accommodate sports schedules ... so there's that.
Almost half of Q's team headed directly to the rink from soccer, so there was a lot of back-of-cars changing stations for the girls. We met Gpa and Gma J there, who had also decided to make it a sports weekend. The grandparents have not seen the kids play sports in over a year, and were all suitably impressed with Q's elevated skill level. She played forward (and center) in the game and scored two goals. Her team handily won and she was super excited to have fans!
On Mother's Day morning, the kids gave me some wonderful homemade presents from school and big hugs, which was exactly what I wanted. We gave Gma her present ... covered in a blanket because I'm not entirely sure where my wrapping paper is right now. Then we took Gma and Gpa down to our favorite trail by O'Dowd Lake to go hiking. We saw over a dozen turtles sunning themselves on logs, watched a goose family teaching a pack of goslings, and occasionally even walked on the trail instead of off-roading.
Gpa V arrived early Friday afternoon, which worked out great because Mike and I were working and the kids had the day off of school. [Here, Grandpa. Your turn!] Everyone was excited to see Gpa and Q talked him into coming to her hockey practice that evening. Then after Saturday morning donuts, we brought Gpa to the soccer pitch with us to watch Q's first game of the season. Holy smokes was the wind cold! It was so chilly that we were excited to go sit at the hockey rink. You know, where there is ice ...
Everyone was starving after the game, so Mike and I recalibrated the grill out dinner plan to a mid-afternoon lunch plan. [For the record, it was not my first day as a sports mom. So I had a literal cooler full of snacks that I handed out to tall and small members of our group in the parking lot of the rink to tide them over to lunch.] It was a good choice because, even with parking lot snacks, pretty much every bite of mid-afternoon lunch was gone! And with such a late lunch, we also ended up eating cereal for dinner. We've decided to just embrace it. Gpa V headed home after "lunch" and we spent a low key rest of the day with Gma and Gpa.
Unfortunately the hike also kicked Fiona's allergies into high gear. She was so sweet and did her best to not complain (because I had wanted a "whine free" hike on Mother's Day), but by the time we got home, she was pretty miserable. Thankfully, some lunch, allergy eye drops, and staying inside for a while helped make things more manageable.
It was so different and fun to have actual visitors at our house. We almost didn't know what to do with ourselves!
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