This will be my last "Hanging at the Houston Home" post since starting next Tuesday, the 23rd, I will officially be on summer break for approximately five weeks!! Bring on the weekly "summer break" posts because here we come! This has been the craziest year as we have juggled work and school from home since the middle of March. We are hopeful to enjoy some leisurely days at home and some family adventures in the next month! I always look forward to my summer break posts and looking back each year to see all we have been able to do as the kids are getting older and more independent. I can't wait to see what the summer of 2020 has to offer as I know it will look different than in years past but still have all my favorite people in it! Before we officially start into summer, here is how we spent our last week of mommy working from home for the 2019-2020 school year.
On Saturday, we checked out Quarry Park and had the best weather, the best view and the best day together! After a little walking and exploring, we stopped downtown for a sweet treat at Lill Dipper! The Houston boys and myself will never turn down an opportunity to have dessert, no matter the time or place! We fit in a little swim in our neighbor's pool that afternoon. Since the weather was so nice for our walk earlier, it made for a chilly swim, meaning we didn't last more than an hour! I am very excited that both boys are little fish again in the water!
Maddox has been wearing around this Cat Boy costume a few days this week! He loves it and I just love him!
Maddox had his first baseball practice after all the precautions started back in March regarding Covid-19. Daddy and brother were able to help with the practice. Zander was supposed to have practice on Tuesday, the next night, but it rained the rest of the week. Even Maddox's practice on Monday was wet and muddy... officially confirming I'm a boy mom!
Daddy got two new chairs for our back deck.... the boys tested them out in the living room!
On Wednesday, we made the trek to Florida to see where Grandpa went to college and visit my grandparents. Since it is approximately an 8-hour drive (which we turned into 12 hours in the van due to bathroom stops and accounting for time to eat), we aren't often able to travel to see our grandparents. They typically come our way once a year. With all the stay-at-home orders this year, this seemed to be the only opportunity for Great Grandma Harriet and Great Grandpa Bill to meet the newest addition to the Kennedy Clan along with spend a little time with all the great grandkids! We stopped at University of Florida before arriving at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Grandpa Buzz had so much fun showing the kids the Krispy Kreme where he went at all hours, the football field which the kids have seen on television and his dorm where he stayed. We tried to snap a couple pictures to document this first visit to a school I've cheered for my entire life! Once a Gator, always a Gator.... I hope the boys will love this team as much as I have all these years!
We got to Grandpa and Grandma's pretty late on Wednesday night and put the kids to bed fairly quickly so they would be pleasant the next day. On Thursday, we entertained them at the house with bubbles, puzzles, card games, coloring books, etc. The kids had a great time and we all took an afternoon nap after our travels the day before!
On Friday, we headed back to North Carolina. All of the kids did a great job managing being in the van that Grandpa rented for that many hours..... I really couldn't say which kid was the best behaved because I think all four exceeded our expectations! A shoutout to Eli though.... he was the only child that couldn't be entertained by movies on the drive there and back and had to be rear-facing the whole time. He was still super smiley when we got home! This was his first trip out of the state he was born in.... making this a very important milestone for this adorable seven month old!
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