When Adrian got home, he made a big pot of chili for us for dinner. While it was simmering we played a new to me game, Wingspan. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed playing it, even though I lost. I'm considering it a learning game and hoping to pull out the win next time! We enjoyed chili for dinner with an appetizer of fried pickles made in my new air fryer!! After dinner, we relaxed some more and played games of Hanabi, Potion Explosion and Lost Cities. We let the boys stay up a little later than usual in hopes they will sleep in a little tomorrow. It was a pretty relaxing day and while it wasn't exactly what we planned it was still a nice day.
Saturday (12/28) We were all able to sleep in this morning and I especially woke up feeling refreshed and ready to go. Zak is finally 100% better, minus a little cough. Daniel is at about 50% but he is really trying to will himself to feel better. We spent the day relaxing and getting some stuff done around the house. We are really enjoying this break with very little commitments and hardly anything on our to do list, although I do wish the boys were all healthy because that has put a slight damper on the first week of break.
In the afternoon Adrian and I learned another new game, one he got me for Christmas called Takenoko. It's a cute game about caring for a garden and a panda. I won this first game so it's now one of my favorite games, ha! After we played the game, we all had leftovers for dinner and then got ready to finally leave the house as a family. We finally went out to do our annual Christmas light scavenger hunt. Unfortunately lots of people already took their decorations down so we had a harder time finding the things on the list than we thought we would. But we still had fun and hopefully created another memory for the boys.
Sunday (12/29) We got up early with the intention of going to church, but it wasn't quite early enough to make it to the first service. Then with the rain and the lazy feeling of the house, we never made it out to church this morning. I know we should have gone but we are really enjoying this relaxing and reset this break and I'm not sorry for that. We had a lazy morning of coffee, TV and getting a few things done around the house before settling in for an afternoon of football. We watched the Jets game first and I was excited that they pulled out a win! They have looked good the second half of the season and I'm hoping we can build on this in the offseason.
We enjoyed some of the other 1:00 games too, including watching the Patriots lose and the Chiefs win so the Patriots have to play next week. I just want another team to win for a change!! Then we watched the late games while making pizza and calzones for dinner. We were happy the Cowboys won but bummed that their season ended too since they weren't consistent enough thru the season. The late games weren't as exciting, but we still enjoyed just being able to sit around and watch football. We enjoyed pizza, calzones in the air fryer and buffalo chicken dip for dinner and then cleaned up that giant mess while watching the night game. It was another super relaxing day and we loved watching all of the end of season football games!!
Monday (12/30) We slept in again today after a bit of a rough night of sleep because our power went out around 5am. All of us but AJ were woken up by that and the strong winds, but thankfully we were all able to go back to sleep for a while. When we finally got up and moving, everyone finally seemed like they were feeling better (for the first time in like 3 weeks!) We decided to still take it easy most of the day and ease into doing stuff, especially for Daniel. We spent the afternoon watching TV, playing video games, eating leftovers and getting a few things done around the house.
We had planned to go across town to see some light displays tonight but the weather was questionable (high winds & snow/ice) so we decided not to do that. However we needed to get out of the house so we decided to head to Menchie's for dessert tonight. We had a gift card to use so we got a free dessert and everyone had a great time creating their ice creams. Zak made the biggest one and was also the only one who couldn't finish it while we were there. We came back home and Adrian and I decided to play a few games while the boys played with their new VR headset. We played "Ticket to Ride" and "Takenoko" and he beat me at both games. Then we watched a little TV, got everyone down to bed and headed to bed ourselves.
After those games, we made ribs, saurkraut and pierogies for dinner tonight, as is our tradition each New Years Day. Everything was delicious and we all ate too much!! Then we got some stuff done around the house getting ready for Adrian to go back to work tomorrow. We finished up the night with one more game, Adrian and I played Gizmos and I finally won another game! After the game, we got the boys thru their night routine and down to bed for the night a little earlier than they have been going to bed to try to get back on our normal schedule. Adrian also headed to bed since he needs to go back to work tomorrow. I stayed up and did a few more little things and watched some "Married to Medicine" because I have had very little alone time the past 2 weeks to watch any of my bad reality shows.
Thursday (1/2) Today it was back to the normal routine for Adrian. He got up and headed into work for the day while the rest of us slept in for a while. AJ and I got up around 9am and had a relaxing morning together before the other boys woke up. When everyone was up and had breakfast, I ran a quick errand to Aldi to grab a few essentials for us and then came back and got lunch for everyone. Then we packed up and headed downtown to COSI for the afternoon.
We spent some time in the two traveling exhibits first, Unseen Oceans and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The boys didn't love either of those, probably too young for the Oceans and too old for TMNT but we still made the best of it and had fun. Then we headed to the permanant Oceans exhibit and we had a blast! Zak had never been in that one and he was in 7th heaven! He loves water and getting wet so this was right up his alley. We played there for a while and just as we were getting ready to leave, we bumped into some friends so we stayed a little longer. We played with them in Oceans for a bit and then headed to Energy Explorers to finish our day. It was a great day spending time together and visiting with friends!!
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