Weekend Warriors

We had a busy weekend trying to fit in our activities and still relax a bit. On Friday night Brenna had her best friend come to stay over while Molly went to their house (conveniently she's best friends with Brenna's BFF's little sister!) for a "half sleepover". She stayed until 9pm and came home to sleep. We didn't let Brenna start doing sleepovers until she was 7 so Molly has to wait a bit too. Sophia had to leave Sat. for a basketball game and Molly had her own basketball clinic so Brenna and I cleaned up a bit and headed to the skating rink. Dean and Molly joined us and both girls finished their final skating class and tested into the next level so there were smiles all around.

Sunday was Scout Sunday at our church and Brenna was excited for that. She sang with the choir and brought the wine to the altar in the offertory procession. She's so serious in her scout uniform! After that we ran home to change and headed out again - this time downtown to the National Theatre to see the touring stage show of High School Musical. One of the moms from school got a whole group together and we had amazing seats. There were at least 35 girls from grades 3-5 plus all of their moms so we took up a fair part of the theatre. It's so nice to have such a warm and welcoming school community that we can do things like this with and really feel like we're part of such a great group of friends - both for Brenna and for me! The show was fun and everyone came out dancing and bopping around so I'll call the whole outing a success. In the meantime, Molly (who didn't come on this "Gr. 3 field trip") and Daddy joined her aforementioned BFF (conveniently the dads get along just as well as the girls and the moms - could this be any more ideal??) at a paint-your-own pottery place. Dean said something about an up-ended tray of paint and some drama that resulted in a woman glaring at them as if they were inept dads who needed to be reported to Social Services but all seemed to end well and I know Molly at least insists it was great and will have Dean back there soon.

So there wasn't much rest - but then again, there never is!