While Dad's Away, Mom and the Boys Get to Play

A few weeks ago Jon was gone for four days to attend a convention for work. Since it was over the weekend and Reed didn't have school for three of the days I planned ahead to make sure there were lots of fun things to keep us busy. On Thursday Kieran and I went to Starbucks, then music class, then had an improtu play date with Lyla and C before we picked Reed up. On Friday we went to the local kids museum with C, Lyla, and Zach, had Chipotle for lunch, made banana muffins in the afternoon, and watched a movie. On Saturday we spent a lot of time outside riding bikes and taking Dodger for a walk then went to C and Tio's for hot dogs and jeep rides with the Parkinsons. The big reward for the boys behaving well while Dad was gone was a sleepover in Mom's bed on Saturday. I definitely don't think you could call it a slumber party as there wasn't much slumbering, but it was still fun!!! Before Jon got home on Sunday we took the bikes over to the property Grandma and Grandpa are going to be building their new home on to help them figure out the exact orientation and location. While I never like Jon being gone, it has gotten much easier now that the boys are older!!!