{"id":6659,"date":"2020-05-25T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2021-07-05T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:22:59","slug":"memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=6659","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going into the weekend, I knew my favorite weekend of the year was certainly going to look a lot different than our typical Memorial Day weekend\u2026.no Viva Vienna, no barbeques with friends and family, no going out to eat or anywhere. But we were determined to make the best of it.<\/p>\n

We started our long weekend early Friday by having a wacky school day, which included a visit to the Reston Zoo, a trip we have never done before due to it being overpriced; however, with the zoo being turned into a drive through zoo and very few places to go these days, we figured why not.<\/p>\n

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Look at this guys hair!!! \u00a0It’s gettin BIG!<\/p>\n

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When we got home…we had two lessons. \u00a0The first was a lesson of the importance of brushing one’s teeth! \u00a0The second was a creative writing exercise about the girls experience. \u00a0Avery did a few types of poems!<\/p>\n

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Harper’s poem. \u00a0I thought a miracle had happened as her spelling was superb…turns out she was asking Google.<\/p>\n

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Emerson’s acrostic poem.<\/p>\n

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Saturday brought a family walk through the woods, with the girls complaining about the muddy trail, mud getting on their legs, spiders, branches in the path, the threat of poison ivy, the temperature being too hot, too hilly\u2026and I\u2019m sure there were others.\u00a0 I threatened to leave them in the woods behind our house to navigate their own way home should the complaints continue.\u00a0 They knew I would never do that so not sure my \u201cthreat\u201d had much of an impact. \u00a0We had a good walk nonetheless at least in terms of exercise!<\/p>\n

The rest of the afternoon there was a lot of playing outside, bike riding, softball playing, and chapter book reading.<\/p>\n

Saturday night we had a delightful charcuterie board with cheeses and meats from a combination of The Oakton Wine Shop and The Italian Gourmet.<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed a delicious bottle of Pinot Noir and after a glass, I was full of laughs as I rocked my new “garage only” crocks through the neighborhood. \u00a0Man I looked ridiculous but I had a great ab workout.<\/p>\n

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Sunday we picked up some fresh fruit from Depauls. We called our order in and they dropped it in our truck…the norm these days.<\/p>\n

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We surprised the girls with a trip to Wendy’s drive through and they each indulged in their own frosty and they enjoyed it in the car.<\/p>\n

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Justin and I had a date night Sunday. \u00a0We ordered take-out from Clarity and ate in the “pit”…it was delicious…we will definitely need to do it again! \u00a0Meanwhile the girls “watched” themselves with a night full of sugar cereal and binge movie watching.<\/p>\n

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Justin and I finished our night off with a walk, Nintendo playing, and Netflix watching. \u00a0It was certainly a different Memorial Day Weekend than years past, but the girls still rocked their Memorial Day clothing, which had just arrived. \u00a0Missing Harper as she had thrown up in the car about 20 minutes before this picture was taken….we think she actually got car sick…having been int the car so little over the last few months!<\/p>\n

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Memorial Day 2021…hope to be wearing these same shirts celebrating with friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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