Wow...what a full day.
At 9:00 this morning, our day began with Samuel's YMCA basketball practice/game. He's in the instructional league, so it's a really layed back, relaxed time of learning to play the game and then having a little game with the other kids. He did well. He didn't end up on the bottom of any dogpiles today. That's always good.
After we got home, Larry did a little car maintenance while I did some laundry & dishes. We all ate lunch and then had our family's quiet time. At our house, no matter what your age, if we're at home from work/school, we have quiet time. When the kids were younger, it was naptime. These days, Larry & I still take a nap when we can, but the kids all have quiet time to go sit in their rooms & play quietly, draw, read a book or watch a movie on our little TV. It's just a resting, relaxing, recharging time of the day for all of us.
During the first part of quiet time, Larry & I layed some of the flooring in his closet. He's been wanting to do this for a while. He recently ripped up the carpet in there & prepped the floor for the same time of flooring we have in the master bath/laundry area and at the end of our bedroom. His closet is right off of that area, so it makes sense to continue the flooring into his closet. This was the "before" picture. We pulled everything out of his closet & it's in the floor of my bedroom for now. You can see in this the type of flooring that is outside of his door. It's called Congoleum Forum Plank. It's a plank type of linoleum that really doesn't feel the least bit like linoleum. And besides...it looks like real wood. We've had a ton of compliments on it since we first put it down in the bathroom/laundry area.
We worked for a while & then realized that we needed to let part of this set before finishing it because some of the planks were wanting to pop up. We set some heavy stuff on what we did to hold them down while the glue sets. We plan to finish the rest of the closet tomorrow. Just so you can see what we got done, see below. We actually only went about 4 feet into the closet. Ain't it purdy?
Larry & I decided to take a nap after this since it was still quiet time. We slept for a little while & then got up & Larry got the grill fired up to make our ribs. YUM! I buy these now & then from our local grocery store. Usually they are really thinly sliced, so each of us eats 2 (or sometimes 3) individual ribs. I have been buying just 1 package, but we always finish every bite and still want more, so this time I bought 2 packages.
Of course this time they were HUGE. Super THICK ribs. We cooked them all & have a cookie sheet full leftover! LOTS of leftovers. I suspect we'll be eating ribs for lunch tomorrow, too. And then supper on Monday.....and Tuesday. ha ha!
While the ribs were on the grill, Samuel & Sarah rode their bikes and scooters to "entertain" Larry & I. We were sitting in the yard in lawn chairs & apparently looked like we needed entertainment.
The ribs weren't quite done when Samuel found our croquet set in the shed. Guess what we got to play in the near-dark?
Apparently playing while wearing rollerblades is the trick to winning. Sarah was our big winner tonight. We finished our game just in time to go inside for a hearty supper of ribs & potato salad.
It's time for me to go get kiddos ready for bed. Ahhh....good day.
2 comments:
Its a good day when your kids can run around in SHORT SLEEVE shirts...lol I am sooooooooo ready for that.. Wished I could have come for dinner.. I LOVE Ribs!
YUM, ribs sound so good!
Cooking tips for the future with ribs: If you totally defrost them, then boil them until cooked through in a big pot of water. THEN when you are ready to grill them, just brush BBQ sauce on them and cook until heated through. Makes cooking ribs VERY easy!!! :)
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