A “Normal” Saturday

What even is normal?

Well, today is at least close to what I would consider a normal Saturday. Josh is on call (this is true 25% of the time). He headed to the hospital pretty early so I’m guessing it’s a busier one.

Here is the day’s landscape:

Interestingly, those highlighter colors are yellow, purple, blue, and neon green! They appear orange in photos however. Just so you know it looks prettier IRL.

G just finished tennis and I enjoyed a lovely walk (musical accompaniments: Stephen Sanchez LOVE, LOVE, LOVE which reminded me of Harry Styles mixed with the La La Land soundtrack so I had to listen to that too).

I have exactly 12 minutes before I need to pick up A from gym. NORMALLY her sessions are 3.5 hours long (yes, this is normal for gymnastics). But with her injury (and cast) she’s very limited in what she can do and she’s just going for the conditioning portion.

(While writing this post I am also making good use of this time-limited window by boiling eggs! Now there’s some random multi-tasking.)

C has ‘evaluations’ for the community summer basketball league. Everyone makes the team so it’s low stakes, but they use the evals to do a draft. Josh actually might end up taking him if he’s done at the hospital.

Then, C has a guitar lesson (at the local School of Rock). He’s super excited.

Side note: I have launched a major crackdown on Home Tidiness, because I have come to realize that 8/12/14 year olds are capable of cleaning up after themselves and there need not be a full on disaster scene every Sunday afternoon.

Between basketball and guitar, I think we’ll go to the pool (I am determined to swim some slow laps!). I also will squeeze in a strength workout at some point, maybe before dinner.

AND TONIGHT we will have a very chill low key evening with probable takeout and screens (for the kids) and/or books (for me, although I’d also like to finish Ep #4 of Euphoria. Though this is my least favorite season so far – and there were points I actively had to turn away from the screen things were so hard to watch).

And that, my friends, is a fairly normal Saturday, at least a normal “Josh-call” Saturday. Maybe not the most exciting but definitely some fun in there.