on weekends we be hermits

Saturdays are my favorite. We all sleep in and then I make everyone breakfast. Sometimes it's just eggs and toast, but sometimes we have pancakes and orange juice and bacon (or this super yummy orange caramel pecan french toast bake) so it's like a feast. We start our day sitting around the table together. Often, hubs and I have coffee and do a crossword or play a game together. Then I workout and take my dog for a walk. She much prefers sitting to walking, but she needs the exercise because she also really likes food. She's a lot like me.

Sometimes that's really the most we do and the rest of the day is full of games and movies. This last Saturday we were actually a bit productive and I trimmed the bushes outside our house while everyone else cleaned bathrooms. I didn't have the right kind of clippers, so the bushes were a beast to trim back to what you see here, which is not as neat as I would like. We'll have to get better trimmers before I can do anymore though. The best part: I got to listen to an audiobook while I did the work, which makes it seem less like work. Plus, I'm on a second run through of The Martian (SO great!) and hearing the intense physical labor the main character has to do just to survive made my bush trimming seem pretty easy. The second best part: I didn't have to clean the bathrooms.

That was not the end of our Amazing Saturday though! We took the kids outside in the evening to play frisbee. Two hours of running around for them! They are excellent frisbee throwers and catchers thanks to Chris showing them to do it properly. Our 8 year old is significantly better than I am, it's hardly even worth comparing.

Finally, we ended our day with silly snuggles on the couch and a show. Our munchkins are so fun, I love spending the day with them. That was a pretty busy Saturday for us.

I lay all this out for you to say this: I used to feel bad that we didn't get out more, accomplish more, do more on the weekends. Are we lazy? Should we be more adventurous? Are we ruining our children by not exposing them to more awesome things? Are we failures as adults? Truth be told, I don't know the answers to any of those questions. Maybe we are all of those things. Maybe we aren't adventurous enough. I decided something very important though: who cares? I love our weekends so much. I love that we eat breakfast, play board games and snuggle. I love that we don't care about doing All The Things. And I think our kids love it too. They get tired from the week and they like being at home as much as we do. If you love getting out and going on adventures (I'm looking at you JD) that's AWESOME and I applaud you. And you should get your hermit friends out occasionally because it's good for them. If you don't, embrace it! Drink coffee, snuggle in with your family and enjoy!