Monday, May 5, 2025

It’s Cinco de Mayo! How was your weekend? Ours was wet – again! It rained Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! I thought it was April showers bring May flowers? I am linking up with Sarah and Holly to share my weekend.

I almost always start my weekend recap on Thursday after school, but this time I really had a reason to do so. We were off on Friday; it’s a flex day that I worked over the summer. Too many teachers asked off for Oaks Day (the big race on the Friday before Derby) many years ago so they turned it into this. I spontaneously asked one of my Heathers to meet me for happy hour and it was so lovely! Look how cute she is!

I woke up Friday morning and watched the news coverage of the Oaks to see all the pretty pink that people wear for the breast cancer survivor’s parade. The color of the year was magenta! So much magenta!

I got dressed for spray tan, car wash, and hair day!

Before:

After:

Bonus of hair day is I get to talk to Laura, my stylist!

Mason wanted to go out so we went to Con Huevos when I was done:

And, then I went to the store by myself and I went in! Can you believe it?

I literally spent the rest of the day on the patio with Eddie Otis. He was pretty chill and I got to read and…

drink strawberry lemonade electrolytes…

Thanks, Marilyn, for the rec! These are soooo delicious! I love both flavors equally and the glacier reminds me of a Taco Bell Baja Blast. They are from Costco and I also had a Costco delivery that day so I didn’t have to go there.

I watched this on Netflix most of the day.

I received my darling twin niece and nephews’ prom photos. Mia even did her own hair! Apparently emerald green was the color of the year.

Mia and her boyfriend:

Miles and his gf:

We ordered pizza and it was just a lovely lazy day. It started raining and storming around dinnertime when Tom came home from work.

Saturday – guess what? – it was raining! I went outside anyway!

Then, Tom and I left for my hometown.

We had a meeting with the realtor, a few things to fix in the house, and stuff to load up in our car, and stuff to help Kate load up. Molly was coming on Sunday, so Saturday was just one sister and I.

And, I found a penny from my Dad immediately when I went in the house. Kate thinks Molly and I are leaving them for each other!

I got very emotional when I found the penny and over the fact that this would likely be the last time I see the house with stuff in it.

Kate and Molly had decided to take some large pieces, but I didn’t take anything big because I didn’t have space/like my current stuff/have a different style.

The empty spaces looked weird:

That view:

Everything went smoothly and Tom and I felt that we deserved a DQ Blizzard for the ride home. We are fans of Heath.

I got home in time to watch the Derby race on the patio in the rain – lol. I am a broken record!

Then, we ordered Cuban food for dinner and I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I went to bed at 9:00 for the last few nights. It’s a physical and emotional tired that your gal is feeling. I’ve got the typical end of year teacher tired plus the emotional exhaustion, I reckon.

Sunday morning – you are never going to believe this – it was raining!

Eddie Otis was in rare form so I brought him outside and then he barked like a fool so I brought him inside and he stole shoes, the laundry basket for towels, and various things so that was fun.

Sunday morning’s agenda was clean, order groceries, do laundry, organize stuff I brought home from my mom’s house, and just all the catch up things. Tom took EO on a long walk so I could get things done.

We are having an estate sale company hold a sale at the end of May so that was the reason for the urgency of all of us going to the house this weekend. I have never been to an estate sale (I have been to lots of garage/yard sales) so I really didn’t know how it worked. We were given a recommendation by a trusted friend and this week I met him to ask some more questions and sign the contract. He had looked at the contents of the house a couple of weeks ago. We have contracted him to sell as much as he can and then take away everything that doesn’t sell at the end. I am grateful that there are people who have this calling.

We all have about 3 weeks of school left (my sisters are also teachers) and Molly has twins graduating! Kate and Molly finish around May 23rd and I finish with students May 23rd, but then have to work until June 2nd. So, to have this handled for us during the month of May is really a blessing.

Even though I was emotional Saturday, I woke up feeling better Sunday knowing that we have the important and sentimental things with us at our homes.

Boy – adulting is hard.

I can hardly believe we only have 15 school days with kids left!

How was your weekend?

Amy