Weekly Wrap Up - Hectic but Fun

Weekly Wrap-Up is a weekly meme hosted by Kris at Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Click HERE to join the fun and tell us what you did this week!This week was hectic and busy, but we had lots of fun! Everyday, from 1-3PM Biggest had cooking classes in Frederick, MD (that will be another post). Right now, Biggest says he wants to be a chef so we are trying to give him some culinary exposure. The classes are about an hour from our home, so Littlest and I had to find fun things to keep us occupied. We had some great one on one time together. Here's what we did.

Monday - Hubby had off today so we spent the morning at home, I was fielding phone calls about the house we were considering making an offer on. I set up a second showing because the first time we only quickly ran through the house. Our realtor had been told it was vacant, it wasn't and we weren't sure we were even supposed to be there so we didn't dally. I set up the second viewing and we left around noon to take Biggest to his cooking classes. After dropping Biggest off, Hubby, Littlest and I went to my brother's house-he lives nearby-to hang out. While there Hubby helped my brother set up his new TV. Then we picked up Biggest and ran to VA to see the house. More drama. The "owners" were there, and said that their realtor had not let them know we were coming...hmmm. There were 3 boys, ages 9-12 running around, running around with toy guns, cursing like sailors...living the thug life. There was a teenage girl watching TV in her room (the only clean room in the house) who pretended we weren't there, and a woman in bed who appeared to be sick or in pain but who was miraculously up and about in the kitchen when my realtor went in to say goodbye. Again, hmmm. My brother went with us to see the house, so we all went out to dinner, dropped him off at home, then went home ourselves.

Tuesday - The morning was spent on breakfast, laundry, emails and more phone calls. We wanted to make an offer on the house, but there was confusion over whether or not we really could due to the fact that it was somehow simultaneously listed with two agents. And a third time, hmmm. We left at noon to take Biggest to his class, then Littlest and I went to my brother's house and he took us to his community pool. We spent the afternoon lounging by the water. Ahhhh. Then it was time to pick up Biggest, go home, fix dinner and get ready for bed. Below is Littlest and my brother (he's single :))

Wednesday - More phone calls about the house, and the upcoming semester of homeschool co-op, I'm on the planning committee--what was I thinking?? :) I set up a time to meet the realtor to make an offer on the house, we had a green light. I dropped Biggest off at his class then went to my Aunt's house. She had dug up some old pictures from my wedding, and some shots she had taken of me when I was 14 or 15 and wanted to enter a modeling contest...oy. We visited for a little while then I took Littlest to the mall to let him run around like a maniac since we'd been spending so much time in the van. I then picked up Biggest and met Hubby and the realtor in VA to pull together our offer. We submitted it. Now we wait but it's not looking good. We'll see what happens.

Thursday - I spent the morning doing as much laundry as humanly possible with an almost-2-year-old under foot. Then I took Biggest to his class. Hubby surprised me by meeting us there and went with me to a park with Littlest. We had a little picnic and played on the playground but didn't stay as long as we would have liked because there were two unsupervised children there, one was seven, the other was nine. They were nice, but irritating. They were sad really. The younger one was chatty, telling me about the holes in his heart, his older sister who goes to parties and does bad things, his 18 month old brother who died of bronchitis or pneumonia, and his upcoming vacation to go to Louisiana so his mom's boyfriend can get a divorce from his wife then his mom can marry him and they will get a new dad. And the older boy showed me how he "likes to cut himself with sticks and watch himself bleed". It was disturbing, I didn't quite know what to do or say.

Friday - I could tell all the running was really catching up to Littlest. He was quite grumpy so we had a slow, calm morning with lots of cuddling. I dropped Biggest off at his class and took Littlest over to Baker Park, in Frederick, MD, where I used to go as a kid. We took two loaves of bread and fed the ducks. It was CHAOS! Littlest loved it. He can be a mean little cuss though. He would throw bread on the ground, wait for the ducks to swarm it, then run into the group of ducks trying to kick and pull feathers! He got in a bit of trouble. Once he calmed down we had a good time, then a lovely picnic lunch and a walk around the lake. We then packed up and went to an outdoor mall where we walked around some more, splashed our feet in the fountain and went to Maggie Moo's for some dairy free sorbet (mmm, mango!). Now we're relaxing at home. We don't have anything scheduled for this weekend. So Hubby will probably work on the garage and I'll fiddle in the garden. And we'll wait to hear something about the house.