My weekend of rest and relaxation and healing and food and family and FUN happened. And just in time too. Hannah was gone most of the weekend so it was just me, The Man and Livie. We laid around. We went for a walk. We shopped. We ate out. We hung out with friends. We saw our family. This weekend had everything I’ve been needing for a long time.

And my baby girl who’s almost all the way over her cold was back to her normal self and ran around and played like a crazy woman. But if I ever left the room, she was right behind me. She was attached to me all weekend and I gotta say, it was kind of nice.

So I followed her around a lot with my camera and got cute pictures of her making her “thinking face” and her “happy face” and I loved it all. My little baby girl who I had fun dressing up in ALL homemade clothes because while I adore me some Target and Gymboree, Etsy and custom made stuff for my girls is where it’s at.

Know what else hits the spot for me? Watching The Man with our babies. It’ll never EVER get old to me.

And so by the time Monday came along I was ready to eat some burgers and hot dogs and laugh with the family and see my oldest baby girl who had a great time on her weekend trip away with her Nana. It was a weekend away from eachother we both probably needed and when she got home I just KNEW she’d be different.

I was right.

She came running up to me and told me she missed me and couldn’t wait to see me. That’s the daughter I knew was in there.

And Livie missed her too.

And so we did just that. We ate. We laughed. We told stories. We did what we do best when we all get together. It may sound corny but to me it’s magical how this family operates. I can’t say enough how grateful I am to have amazing in laws and people that consider me blood just as much as they do The Man or my girls. I feel like I was born into this family and that I’ve always been here.

It was a good, good weekend. The last weekend of summer…at least according to me. So now I anticipate fall and all the stuff I LOVE about fall. We may not get fall weather here or fall colors but we have our family and our get togethers and our pumpkin spice punch and Halloween parties. And that? Makes me happy.

It makes us happy.