Weekend

This weekend has been blah.

Blake has been sick most of the time. Starting Friday morning before I left for work. He *might* have an ear infection too. We're doing a wait and see approach for that. Keeping him dosed on Ibuprofen and cough meds seems to help.

Otherwise, Friday evening I needed some retail therapy and unleashed on Lowes. I bought new seat cushions for our patio chairs, a deck storage trunk to keep said cushions dry and out of direct sun when not in use, a new umbrella for the patio set, a grill cover and mat for wood decks to put the grill on. My damage was steep. I really needed the umbrella and cushions though. Both things are faded and the umbrella is torn in a few places--especially since it's lift and launch last Spring from a gust of wind that ultimately blew the table off the deck onto the ground below and shattered the glass top in a gazillion pieces. -- yeah, I'm still bitter about that.

So Saturday I spent the better part of the day getting the patio set out, weeding the flower beds, moving the grill around. The disappointing part... the grill cover is too big, the seat cushions don't fit and Ryan doesn't think we need the grill mat. I'll be going back to Lowes this week to fix those purchases. *disappointing*

I also noticed the chairs are rusty in spots so I'll need to spend another day sanding them down, primer and painting them so they don't get worse. Not fun.

Cole starts "Bitty Basketball" on Thursday night. It's through YMCA but they play at Cannelton's gym because the closest Y is like 40 mins or more away. It's for 3-5 year olds. He played last year and loved it. He can hardly wait for Thursday to get here.