On Friday we got up late and decided to eat a quick breakfast and get ready and go bowling. We took the Nooch bowling for the very first time to our favorite little bowling alley. He was so excited to get started and caught on to the concept rather quickly. I took pictures of our matching bowling shoes, his so much cuter than mine because of their miniature size. The hubs rolling his eyes because I take pictures where ever we go and for whatever we do. But I always tell him that when we are 80 he will thank me haha! We played for an hour. I got grumpy because I kept getting gutter balls. I am not good at sports, and even though I know this it still frustrates me when I lose. I always lose yet I guess it's the hope that maybe one day I'll get better that makes me upset. The Nooch one, which was totally awesome! I was so proud of my bowling baby. We ate snacks there and then headed to the arcade for a few games. Then headed home.
I had stuck a whole chicken in the crock pot before we went bowling so the house smelled amazing when we got back. So garlicky was the air! It was my first time cooking a chicken that way so I was nervous about how it would turn out. Uh folks? I will never cook a chicken any other way! It was that good! So juicy! Of course the skin isn't brown and crispy. But for me the juicyness trumps the crispyness, and that's weird for me to say because I love crispy chicken skin! So yea we ate our chicken dinner and had a quiet night at home.
The weather was amazing this weekend by the way. in the high 70's and 80's with blue skies and bright white clouds scattered around. Spring is definitely on it's way, I can feel it. The birds are starting to chirp and the crickets have started playing their music at night as well. You can almost feel it looming right around the corner.
Saturday was spent at a kids museum that a friend told us about. We had a really amazing time there. Dom spent the whole time running around and exploring and climbing and touching everything. The best part being we didn't have to tell him no because this place was meant for that. We are totally going back. After the museum we went to a friends house to celebrate another friends birthday a month late haha! but hey! better late than never right? we ordered pizza and made a salad and had coke and chips. and afterwards we had smore's a la pit fire. So good! what made me the happiest about saturday is how much fun my son had. he was beaming the whole time and it was bitter sweet watching him interact with others. At my friends house he sat around the fire with us and told them about our day at the museum with details and hand gestures that made me think "where did my baby go?" It stabbed at my heart, in a good way, but it made me a little sad too. He really is growing up you know. and though he's only three sometimes i get glimpses of who he's going to be a few years from now and it scares me. i'm never going to get this time back. i have to remember to soak as much of the little bit of baby-ness he has left before it's all gone. The chubby hands, the little voice, the hugs around my thighs. All of it, I love it and it will be missed when it's gone.
Any who we left our get together happily and sleepily and headed home for a very relaxed slumber. Today we woke up late and had a slow morning. We finally peeled ourselves off the couch and got ready to go have some brunch. We ate omelettes and pancakes and enjoyed our surroundings and each other. After brunch we headed to the store to buy some house plants for our apt. We picked two pretty ones and watched them get planted into their new pots. Then we let Dom roam the nursery and look at his favorite thing in the world, water fountains. This kid has an obsession for water fountains. He can look at them for hours. Anywhere we go they are the highlight of his trip. He's always had a thing for water, I wonder what it means. After a while I nudged him away and told him we had to go.
We came home and put our plants in their rightful places and admired them. And you know what happened? After realizing this weekend how big my son was getting he fell asleep in my arms. I sat there on the couch holding him like I did that first week he came into my life. His head on my chest and my arms wrapped around him. We stayed there like that for an hour as the sun went down through the window in front of me. That moment, it just added to the ache in my heart. There he was all 40 inches of him laying on my chest in the same way he use to when he was pink and soft and little and I thought, this may be the last time. I made hubs take a picture. He snapped more than one and they came out beautiful. with the golden hour sunlight splashing around that sleeping baby and his very happy mama. i don't think i can even really put into words what i was feeling. Awe? happiness? saddness? I don't know, but I just know that in that hour our lives were shifting to a different place and I was soaking it all in.
Once he woke up we had dinner. Inside out turkey burgers that were amazing! And then we put dom to bed. now i sit here writing our weekend out feeling the way you feel after a day at the beach. Tired, relaxed, content, happy.
have a good week
p.s. my writing skills are really rusty, part of the reason i wanted to start blogging. i promise ill get a little better. i hope!
here's my crock pot chicken recipe if you wanna try it out.
1 whole chicken 3 to 5 lbs.
I chopped up carrots and celery and stuffed the inside of the chicken with those along with lots of whole garlic cloves (lightly smashed)
I rubbed the chicken with olive oil and then seasoned it with pepper, sea salt, onion powder, and some thyme and dill.
I sliced some garlic cloves and put them on top of the chicken and also some chunks of butter.
I placed it in the crock pot with some chopped up red potatoes and more chunks of butter at the bottom.
I let it cook in there for 5 hours on low.
It was so good, I hope you try it and like it! Happy cooking!
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