THE WEEKEND + FIVE INTERESTING LINKS

Our weekend started with a date night on Friday night, a sort-of belated Valentine’s dinner for us. We usually try to avoid going out on big holidays or when we know restaurants will be crowded so we waited until this weekend to plan a special evening out. It was seriously one of the funnest nights out we’ve had in months, and we had a delicious meal and shared a dark chocolate pot de creme with olive oil gelato and olive oil jam for dessert…literally one of the best desserts I’ve ever tasted!

Saturday was a full day of work and house projects at home, and it was one of those days that just felt like you got a lot done by the end of it. Ben worked on building a small desk table for our office, since we are currently just using a big Lifetime table that takes up way too much space, not to mention it’s not really aesthetically pleasing. He does amazing with those wood working projects and never fails to blow me away with how he can put simple things together and make them look like something right of a magazine. We’re all fighting head colds around here, so once I got the laundry and some cleaning finished up, I spent most of the afternoon sitting on the floor with Ayla. She seems to be fighting both a cold AND doing some teething right now, so she has her moments when she feels a little miserable, poor little dear. I went out for the evening then with my sister-in-law and some of her friends, who were all in town for a weekend conference. We had supper and coffees at Fido, and it had really been a long time since I’ve done a girl’s night out and it was just fun to get out again with other chatty, fun women.

We spent Sunday at home doing what we love to do on our Sundays: rest and relax! We took naps and lounged in our pajamas and had a big lunch and took more naps and did a lot of reading for the afternoon. We had church at four, and then came home to our normal Sunday night routine…which is feed Ayla and put her to bed, then have what we call our “sunday suppers” (which is a fancy name for a fend-for-yourself-pull-out-all-the-leftovers-make-an-egg-burrito kind of supper, hehe), talking over the week ahead, spending some time praying for each other, and then watching Shark Tank before turning out the light.

Hope your weekend was just as lovely, dears!

Here are five interesting things from the web:
– every parent should watch this
– a cool tip
– EVERY MOM SHOULD READ THIS
– this album has been on repeat at our house
– I can’t stop making this lentil stew

What about you: what’s a favorite thing to do on your Sundays?

I’d love to hear your thoughts!