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Stay-cation 2013: Days 12-13

Day 12: Friday
Breakfast: Our usual Friday morning at Cracker Barrel. 

Morning: A brief trip to Parky's Farm to play on the playground. It had rained the night before and therefore was a bit wet, but not so much as to prohibit running around. Owen had quite the pretend-school-bus scenario happening and threw quite the fit when it was time to leave. Levi, Silas and I walked over to the farm area to see the animals, prompting a rather lengthy discussion about how all animals poop. Hooray for seeing the goats first thing in the morning . . . 

Later morning/lunch: Findlay Market. This turned out to be one long series of splurges: a Belgian waffle here, a bag of kettle corn there, a BBQ pork sandwich for the mama needing protein, some mint chocolate fudge for the daddy willing to bedtime alone (more on that later). Since we were there, I bought several pounds of Amish chicken at a better price than I usually see. Not the cheapest "lunch," but much fun to wander around and look at the display cases. (Except the fish. I hate fish. Why are little kids so interested in looking at fish?!?)

Afternoon: A prenatal appointment for me, decent naps for the kiddos. Wait, that's not vacation, that's normal life.

Post-nap snacking.

Dinner: BBQ meatballs, coconut rice, and green beans. I made a little extra rice and took most of it to our church's luau on Sunday. All of the foods my children won't eat, meatballs (and meatloaf and burgers, etc.) are always a hit. These are definitely my (meat-loving) children.

Evening: I left all the boys at home and went to Ladies' Night Out at our church pool, taking along these caramel chocolate chip cookie bars (which, if you're a member of our young adults' Bible study, you'll be seeing again tomorrow, since I made a double batch). VERY unfortunately, I got distracted and forgot to salt the caramel, which is very sad for me. But they're still good, and it's possible I've been picking at the leftovers of the first pan every hour or so since Friday night. Shrug.

Day 13: Saturday
Jammie day! Again, I had no plans to go anywhere. We were all pretty burnt out on going places, and instead spent a lovely morning outside on the deck. 

Levi's been really sweet about pushing Silas around in a car lately.

Boy train.

In the end, we went out to scope out a new van (probably not getting anything soon, but it was fun to check out options) and then had dinner at Five Guys (a family favorite). After the littles were in bed, Isaac made one more trip to Graeter's to close out vacation. 

I'm feeling the usual post-vacation mix: sad to have my husband gone all day again (not to mention be changing diapers myself again), but a little relieved to be back to a normal schedule. Next time he takes multiple vacation days, there will be a newborn in the house!

(The end.)
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