Girl Power

The kids' school does a huge (like, really really long) lesson on dinosaurs in Pre-K.  As you can imagine, Avery enjoyed it, but never really got TOO into it.  Alex on the other hand?  LOVED it.  I mean, the kid still struggles with proper grammar at times and yet he knows every single dinosaur name and pronounces it nearly perfectly every time.  It is pretty impressive.

That said, Josh came up with the idea of taking him to NYC for the weekend so that they could go to the Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaur exhibit there.  Given that I was going to Amsterdam a few weeks later (more on that in another post), we decided that it would be just a guys' trip and that Avery and I would stay at home and do girl stuff.

Our weekend started on Saturday morning when we both went to get our hair done.  Avery was in desperate need of a hair cut.  I vowed I would never pay what my salon charges on her hair given that it is just a trim, but I needed my hair done anyway and my hairdresser does a great job on both, so we stopped by the bank, took our a second mortgage, and went. 

 

 

After getting our hair done, we did as all girls with fresh cut, blow dried (and in Avery's case) curled hair do....we went to Home Depot!  I have wanted to start a garden for a long time, but the idea of me out in the field with a rototiller attempting to do this was daunting to say the least.  So, instead?  I decided that I was going to build a raised garden bed.  I mean, seriously.  Building a box and filling it with dirt has GOT to be easier than digging up the dirt on my own.  So, I researched a bit and found that my idol, the Pioneer Woman, had done an entire blog post with step by step instructions on how to build a garden bed.  I mean, I couldn't have been more of that "classic girl" walking around Home Depot with my iPhone in hand so that I could receive my list of items from the Pioneer Woman. And, OF COURSE, I said no whenever any of the 100 Home Depot employees asked me if I needed help.  An hour later (twice as long as if I would have said yes to that help), Avery and I had everything that we needed to start building.

After Home Depot, we grabbed some lunch at Subway (did you know that they now do flat bread pizzas???? Delicious I tell you.  Delicious) and then headed home.  We had just enough time to take Deacon for a walk (on the REAL road - Avery felt very grownup) and then we had to get ready for dinner and the Little Mermaid performance at the kids' school.

I have to say that the play was really well done.  For a small, private school, they really did a great job with the set, costumes, etc.  And, the kids enjoyed it, which is all that matters.

Overall - it was a great girls' weekend!  More on Al-Man's NYC experience and my garden later.  Stay tuned!