One Of The Best Weekends Ever
This weekend started out like any other. Friday I was home with the kids. It was a rather uneventful day we read a few books, watched a couple of kids shows and tidied up the house a bit. In the late afternoon we went outside and waited for Gwynn to get home from work. It was beautiful outside, sunny with a light breeze – just lovely! We had a BBQ for dinner, bathed the boys and put them down for the night. Following that we chatted – just the two of us. Such a positive end to an otherwise hectic week.
The rest of the weekend unfolded in very much the same positive light. Here are some of the things I did this weekend:
- BBQ with Gwynn and the boys
- Boot Camp with my sister
- High tea with my sisters, mom and Gran for mother’s day
- Visit with my sister and her boyfriend
- Gardening and general yard clean up with Gwynn and the boys
- Played fetch with our two golden lab dogs
The one common thread in all the activities that made this weekend one of the best weekends ever: family. I got out there with some of the people that matter the most, I didn’t spend a lot of money ($20 for tea) and yet I had one of the most memorable weekends I’ve had in a long time. What I will remember:
- My sister and I laughing at ourselves while we ran around the track in boot camp (we’re NOT runners!)
- My son sitting on his little foam couch watching one of his favorite movies
- My mom, my gran, my two sisters and I all sitting around the same table drinking fancy teas and enjoying really tiny food as if we were the Queen herself
- The satisfaction of clearing out all the leaves, twigs, branches, and grass from our flower beds
- My eldest son waking up from his nap and immediately handing me his boots – he couldn’t get outside fast enough
- The look of contentment on our son’s face (pictured above) as he held an earthworm in his hand for the first time and how he lifted it up to his cheek to feel it on his face (we stopped short of letting him eat it)
- Carrying our youngest son around the yard and seeing the wonderment on his face as he took EVERYTHING in
- The rewarding ice cream I enjoyed with Gwynn after a long day in the yard
- The feeling of complete exhaustion (a great feeling) as I laid down in bed for the night
I’m sure there will be many more weekends like this one in my lifetime but I refuse to take this one for granted. A testament to the old adages “Money can’t buy you happiness” and “It’s the little things in life that mean the most”. I’m very grateful to have made this weekend count. I hope you can find something beautiful and memorable from your weekend and keep these feelings in mind as you go through each day. Here’s to a new week!
See also:
Gratitude Journal: 30 Days To Happiness
7 Little Things That Make Me Disproportionately Happy
The World Around You Is An Amazing Place – Take Time To See It
My Family Rules! 5 Rituals To Establish a Close Knit Family
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This is beautiful, Sherri! Thanks for sharing such a warm-hearted and wonderful weekend story with us!
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Sherri,
It sounds wonderful! Everything is more vivid and beautiful when we can just go with it as you did.
The older I get the more I realize how important family and friends are to our happiness.
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Reading this post made me very happy! It’s so great to hear about such a wonderful, fun-filled weekend. Wishing you many more just like it!
Oh, Sherri, what a nice weekend! I’m glad you enjoyed it so much. I feel like the previous poster, it made me happy just to read about your experiences.
You mentioned tea with your family, and it took me back in time. When I was 14, I went to Great Britain with my mother and father. My father was selling Rootes cars, at that time (1964), and they had a convention of US dealers. It was a lovely trip that I will never forget. When we were in London, we went to this nice place that had very fancy armchairs and little tea tables with tea and goodies to eat. I enjoyed it very much. Years later, I asked my mother what that place was called. She looked at me in surprise. “You didn’t realize you were having tea at the Ritz?” LOL
My BFF is from London, Ontario, and we used to have tea parties all the time. Now we are far away from each other. Sigh! I miss our tea parties.
Hi Sherri,
This is a great reminder of what really matters! And sometimes, in the normalness of life – we fail to recognize that which is so important to us – we take it for granted. And it really a gift. A gift that we should treasure always… So, thank you for reminding me what it is that matters – something I can’t hear too often…
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Wow, you’ve had such wonderful moments filled with love.
In those moments, it’s as though all the world’s blessing have been yours.
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Very warm and loving post, Sherri.
Reminds me I don’t spend nearly as much quality time with my family as I’d like. It’s one of the problems of a very geographically spread family.
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Thank you all for your comments. It makes me really happy to know that it uplifted you all in some way
@ Mary – Thank you for sharing your tea story and at the Ritz in London no less! I wasn’t familiar with the hotel so I looked it up on line and after I picked my jaw up off the table I thought WOW! What an experience for you. (For anyone who’s interested take a look at their tea room: http://www.theritzlondon.com/tea/index.asp I hope this is the right place Mary
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@ Lance – Welcome and thanks for leaving a comment. I think it is very common for us to all take our family for granted after all they are ALWAYS there right? But we shouldn’t despite that like you say they should be treasured always and I whole heartedly agree!
@ Jocelyn – Hi there good to have you back! Thanks for your kind words.
@ Ian – Thank you Ian
It is tough when you are spread out over a large distance but telling people they are loved and what they mean to you can be just as important as spending time with them.
LOL, Sherri! They’ve probably remodeled the Ritz several times since I was there in 1964. It was lovely, but that photo is even more beautiful. I think we were in a smaller room, too. It was nice of you to look that up!
Hi Mary – I was really curious about what it looked liked the Ritz in London sounded so…well…ritzy! I’m glad you liked the pic I was certainly impressed