#RealMamaLife: Week-End Wrap-Up

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‘Where we embrace the glory and humour in the chaos. Un-staged and imperfectly beautiful.’

It wan’t just your average weekend. We had extensive landscaping plans. Raised beds to build. A ton of vegetable, fruit and perennial planting to do. With 4 kids to care for in the mix…

I suppose most folks arrange for child-care or ship off the little ones to the g-rents (or other family or friends), for the weekend when they have epic renos or landscaping over-hauls to manage. Not us. After all, we had the expertise and assistance of two more adults weighing in on the crazy.

Besides. Isn’t this some new concept? That parents can’t get anything done with kids around? That children have to be entertained by said parents at all times?

Nope.

Sure, it was bonkers (and really loud), for the most part – but all in all we had a grand time. So did the kids! Me being on mixology and kitchen detail helped a great deal. Good food and delicious drinks is KEY to keeping hard-working individuals going.

Exactly how did it go down? Well, I didn’t plan anything ornate outside of the menu. There were no craft and art stations. We essentially let them play with whatever they wanted, wherever. (Mostly.) They ruled the house and our crescent with their myriad of sidewalk chalk art murals, bikes, trikes, baby strollers and other various forms of toddler paraphernalia. I was amazed and amused at how incredibly FAST 4 toddlers/small children can destroy a playroom. And every other room in the house shortly there-after.

There was only one minor catastrophe where my son thought the inside of the lower level of our home needed a good flushing out and hose down while filling up the pool.

They were all only naked for half the time, and even then it was mostly kept in the backyard.

Our neighbour watched the madness, in amusement – and offered us her grand-daughter’s mini grocery cart. That thing kept my youngest entertained for a good couple hours. She literally walked back and forth, back and forth with all of her babies and bear bears (she now has a thing for miniature plush bears to act as lovies for her babies), like she was on a mission. For what, I don’t know. Who cares?

Like I said – she was ‘entertained’  for a surprising chunk of time.

All in all we just went with it and got shit DONE son. Today? Today we are all sore, exhausted rockstars of the suburban farming variety.

Visual Proof…

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Side-note:
The work done for all of these grandiose landscaping and suburban farming plans is part of a nifty trade we are doing with the afore mentioned couple of expertise. What do they get in exchange? The wife of said couple will be receiving a shiny new WP website for her food blog, complete with new logo, media kit and some branding, social media and marketing consultation.

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