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This Memorial Day Weekend was wonderful, and productive!  It was a great start to the summer ahead of us, and I hope that I keep this energy going for more then just a day or two!

Friday was spent working around the house, laundry, changing sheets, cleaning litter boxes, the normal weekly chores to take care of my litter.  I spent the evening working late, but got to come home to pizza with the family, yum!

Saturday I took it easy throughout the day, knowing that I had to work all evening (real work)... so I read a wonderful book that I was behind on, I took a few email surveys, and I caught up on my blog reading.  I even fit in a little freezer "cooking", I took an idea from Money Saving Mom and put some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the freezer.  This sounds a little crazy, but it is a great idea for my house because we usually do not have bread in the house, so now if I want a PB&J I can just grab it out of the freezer!  Then, after a LONG night at work I came home to my sweet husband, waiting with Ice Cream from my FAVORITE place in town <3.

Sunday we work up early, pulled weeds, weeds, and MORE weeds!  Then we went to the store because we had to fill in all the spots we had just weeded.  We ended up finding more projects around the house to work on instead, including putting in air conditioning, painting a butterfly, and having dinner with family!

Monday, Monday!  What a wonderful day.  We finished weeding, bought more plants, got everything planted, covered in gardening fabric, and mulch down.  I washed the floors (the old school way, hands and knees), did more laundry, washed dishes, read my book, dusted, worked on another area of weeding, planted some more, and then watered everything over and over again.  We finished the night with another great family dinner, and then snuggled in to watch TV until we fell asleep.



It was so amazing to spend so much time with my litter, and I loved every minute, but I was a little excited to go back to work today so I could relax a little.  And have my computer back!  I was trying to stay disconnected from the internet for 2 days, and stay connected to my family!

How did you spend your weekend?

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