Scenes From Sunday

This past Sunday was one of those days when I took one picture and then decided to try and be intentional about documenting our day. And it was such a good day! Dave and I started the day stressing about all the things we needed to do. After some re-evaluation, and because it was a cool day, we decided to cancel our swimming time. This opened up our day and alleviated a bunch of stress.

And then we decided to tackle some yard work, which wasn't even our original plan. Ooops. Above is the day lily bed which I've needed to work on since Spring. As it was the last thing I tackled, I ran out of energy (and time) about halfway through but I am determined to finish it this week. Hopefully you can see some edging (and cleaning) progress in the picture on the right.

garage bed before

Another bed that was stressing me out was the one by our garage. I started with this one and I'm sooooo happy with how it looks. Again, I needed to do edging and clear out dead leaves (from day lilies) and weeds.

Dave mowed the lawn (front and back) and went to work on the cedar hedge. We needed to weed it and edge it. Once the edging is done, we can add the mulch we've had sitting in our garage all summer.

Rachel asked if she could help with yard work in exchange for a Coke. We kept her busy for two hours and she didn't complain once. We figured she more than earned her Coke. The picture of her opening (wearing!) the yard waste bag is what inspired this whole post :)

I've had these shoes for ages and have been wearing them as my yard shoes. They've been falling apart all summer but I finally threw them out after this day. Hahaha!!!

The kids decided that it was time for The Great Stuffed Animal Takeover Of 2020. I especially love how you can hardly see Dave's desk!

After five months of not coming grocery shopping with me, Rachel really wanted to go this day so I decided to let her come with. Considering there were entire families shopping together, I felt okay about my decision. Also, we bought mums for the fall so it was helpful to have her pushing the cart. Dave ran an errand and then came to help us check out as one cart was entirely full of mums, plus I was carrying one more!

I loved my summer annuals but they were looking half dead and really awful. I'm sad my "before" picture is not that great. And since I can never get rid of anything green, I pulled all the dead stuff out and created a mini display with all the happy plants!

 

And the fence looks so much better with fresh mums to brighten it up!!!

Thanks to an Instagram friend, I've been craving Cheetos for a couple of weeks. So I had an afternoon snack of Cheetos and Palm Bay which is a vodka drink. It was kind of a gross combination :)

Sam played catch with a chair. He bounces the ball off the chair and it actually works pretty well!

At this point we really should have been working on supper but I decided to do some work in the front yard instead. I took all the half-dead pansies out of the window boxes and we planted a forsythia which Tim & Janice gave us. You can kind of see it in the picture on the right.

We had BBQ for supper and Dave was thrilled to be able to use the new BBQ for the first time. Yes, this is the BBQ we bought at the end of May and which got put together last week.

I'd heard really good things about The One & Only Ivan so I wanted to watch it as a family. I also had a ton of laundry to fold so I multi-tasked. Sadly, I still have a load left to fold.

And Rachel wore a very appropriate nightgown which Tessa handed down to her!

And that was our Sunday. I was very sore yesterday (Monday) from all the yard work but, in between rain showers, I walked around and admired everything we'd gotten done -- it made me so happy!!!