Weekend Recap

Well people, it was a doozy of a weekend. What I was expecting to be a super light, fun-filled weekend, turned out to be unnecessarily emotional and kind of tough honestly. It was still fun! But kind of bogged down by some other bullshit.

I noticed my ring was missing Friday night after I came home from work and it sent me and Sammy into a total shit show. To make a long story short, we found it. Well, Sammy found it. It was literally under our bed like the most stereotypical place for it to be haha. I KNEW it fell off when I was changing after work or messing with my laundry in our room. I don't know why I don't trust my instincts more because, while I looked thoroughly in that room, I should have looked harder since I knew it was in there.

At the end of the day, all is well. I'm just disappointed it turned into an argument that permeated the whole weekend.

So, enough about that. On to the fun parts of this weekend. 

SATURDAY

I met my girlfriends for the annual Wine about Winter event that we go to every year in downtown Libertyville. We have such a fun time every year and I love getting to spend this time with them.

Love seeing pups every year on the crawl!

One of my fave gorge ladies.

We ate at O'Tooles after the wine crawl was over and then I snuck back to Chelsie and Dan's for some DQ afterward. Nothing like wine and dairy to really fuck up your system, am I right? 

I ended up spending the night at my mom's that night because we had a baby shower Sunday morning to go to together (and since I don't have my car yet, she'd have to pick me up at my house so it was easier just to spend the night and be with her in the morning for the shower) and it was really nice after an emotional Friday night to be at her house.

I got some pup snuggles and my mom's oatmeal (the BEST) and it was good for the soul.

SUNDAY
I headed to my cousin's shower with my mom and Grandma around noon and it was such a lovely day celebrating these new parents and their sweet baby boy (named after his grandpa)!

This family gives the loveliest favors at their showers and this was nooo exception. We got a box filled with gourmet chocolate items and a beautiful white appetizer dish from Crate & Barrel.

They had a great appetizer spread—I wish I could eat like this every day. And I had mimosas and Sprite all morning which means I was a happy girl (I'm literally half adult half child at all times.).

They had a great spread and serving two salads, chicken in a cream sauce with mushrooms and artichokes, beef, baked pasta, roasted potatoes, green beans, and rolls.

The sweetest couple was showered with some awesome stuff which they certainly, certainly deserve. They're seriously so generous to everyone else, I loved watching them be on the receiving end.

My cousin (the mom-to-be's brother) made all the centerpieces and floral accents. He has such a raw talent but is actually going to floral school (who knew?!) downtown Chicago soon to learn even more. I've already asked him to do our wedding flowers (if he wants). I actually won our table's and got to take it home! So pretty for a winter shower, right?

I got home at about 4 o'clock and was able to do all the things since Sammy was at his parents' for dinner and Henry was occupied with a new treat. It's been a while since I've had such a productive Sunday (in the last month or so, Sammy has been off on Sundays and I really don't like to be doing random stuff around the house when we can be spending time together) and it felt really good.

I did a load of towels, dish rags, table runner/cloth (aka all the things you put off washing), folded everything including our Christmas sheets (YES, Christmas, I know) that have been sitting in our laundry room after being washed like a month ago, made my lunch for today, cleaned the kitchen and living room, straightened up random stuff, took down Sammy's birthday decorations, which still left me time to have a bowl of cereal (and a few other snacks ;) ), spend time with Henry, and watch a few episodes of Four Weddings (Please note my princess blanket...further proving the half adult half kid thing from earlier.).

I'm really hoping for a relaxed week this week. I have nothing to complain about—there are much much worse things that could happen than losing your engagement ring, believe me, I know—but the whole event kind of shook me up for other reasons, so I'm looking forward to a low-key, chiiiilllll week haha. 

Sammy is off tonight and tomorrow night, so I'm looking forward to *fingers crossed* not having to make dinner and having a little more "me time." I swear I have no idea what we're going to do when we have kids if we think we're busy now haha. This is the first week in a while where I don't have anything going on after work (I actually cancelled plans with friends for tonight so I could go home and spend time with Sammy because I felt like it was important after the weekend we had) and I'm really looking forward to that refresh.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Happy Monday! xo