Our weekend began typically: me picking up the kids at SACC and, as is the tradition, asking them what they wanted for dinner that night. After some discussion, they chose McDonald's...both kids wanting the 10-piece nugget meal but Sarah also asking for a cheeseburger (no pickles no onions)...and darned if she didn't eat it all!
Saturday I had the chance to hit the gym for an hour, where I ran into Jill Cook. I mentioned that David would still love to see Ben before Ben had to return to NYC, so we talked about them getting together that afternoon. First David had his second lacrosse game, and would that the outcome was any different from the first: they lost, 5-2. David was the first half goalie and let three balls get by him; despite the great stops he had other times, it's those three that left him deflated going into the second half. In the second, though, he came out as a midfielder, and started being able to hit back at the Braddock Road boys...which he seemed to enjoy. As he was playing, Mary headed north to a bridal shower for her cousin Curtis' wedding this spring, where unfortunately she didn't know anyone in the room.
Then after a brief round of errands at the increasingly forlorn-looking Springfield Mall, we drove over to pick up Ben around 5:00 for what became a 26-hour playdate. We made pasta for dinner, David and Ben played with Zach and Jacob outside (mostly Nerf and water gun fights) before the four boys (!) came inside for their sleepover. After rousing Wii games and Nerf wars downstairs, they settled in and were asleep before midnight. In the meantime, Mary and I had a chance to watch Firewall, the Harrison Ford thriller that had been on our Netflix list for apparently quite some time.
Sunday morning the kids were up in time for pancakes before Zach and Jacob had to go, and for us to go to church. Ben came along and went with David to Sunday School while Sarah stayed upstairs and helped me with the band during the services. Then after church we came home and the boys took right back to playing outside on a gorgeous spring day. At 2:00 we went back to church; the All-Starz youth group that David's in was going to play mini-golf, and so Ben came along. They headed off while I stayed for Redeemer's Song's rehearsal, and when they returned, it turned out that David and Ben had tied for first place in the mini-golf and had earned free ice cream as a result!
By the time the All-Starz worship was over we came home to dinner of burgers and hot dogs on the grill, and to find Sarah had invited Giselle over as well. We six had dinner, then Jill came to take Ben home after a long and much-appreciated visit, and I drove Giselle back to her house as night began to fall.
The sheer list of activities of course is only one aspect of the weekend; the brilliant pinks of the pear blossoms in the back yard, the soft breezes as we sat out on the back deck, the splash of the kids as they played in the hot tub...all this and so many other sensations as spring erupts and we enjoy what for us was a rather tame weekend, before heading back to work and school once more.
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