Although Memorial Day was the official start of summer break, that
weekend the kids were with their dad, so we didn’t really get to kick off our
summer. So, this weekend, I wanted to
get the summer off to a good start. The
problem was, though, the weather did not look like it was going to
cooperate. Friday, it rained all
day. It looked more like April than
June. By Friday night, I had no idea
what the weekend was going to entail.
Alex was trying to have a friend over from his baseball team. My ex-sister-in-law wanted to send my niece
to my house for a sleep-over. My nephews
and baby niece were in town for the weekend and my mom and dad wanted us all to
help out taking care of them while my sister and brother-in-law were in Tan-Tar-A
for the weekend.
By 6pm on Friday, Alex still hadn’t received a call back in
regards to his friend coming over. My
mom confirmed that TJ was going to my other sister’s house. So, I finally told Michelle that Lilly could
in fact come over for a sleepover. She’s
notorious for dropping her kid off and going MIA for an entire weekend. I was adamant that Lilly would have to be
picked up no later than 3pm Saturday afternoon.
But what were we going to do on Friday night???
Well, it had pretty much stopped raining so I thought maybe, just
maybe, I could get an outdoor movie set up.
It took a little bit of creativity, but I found the perfect spot.
We picked up a few DVD’s from Nana because
the kids really wanted to watch the “good” Peter Pan and it was not available
on Red Box. Also, the projector hooks up
best to a pretty basic DVD player. Grace
brought out her speakers. I sort of got a fire going and Grace burned her Sophomore year work...especially Spanish that she is trilled to never be taking again! The kids roasted marshmallows for s’mores and
I popped a big bowl of popcorn.
Although we didn’t get the movie going until almost ten o’clock
and then proceeded to stay up until almost two in the morning, it was a really
fantastic night. And I’m sure outdoor
movie night will become more of a regular event this summer.
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