The boys attended Maxim’s birthday party at Rockin Jump on Saturday at 11:20.  The parents suggested that they would take our boys home with them and let the 3 boys play until 5pm.   Suddenly Stuart and I had hours to ourselves.  We ended up going to Home Depot to buy supplies for our little backyard project, have a lunch and did some grocery shopping.  Next we played tennis for some time.  I tried hard, again I lost to Stuart 5:7 and 3:3.  This was a few productive hours.

    Connor had a big school project and was not given much time, thus we had to spend quite a bit of time on it this weekend.  He had to make a totem pole with 4 animals representing our family values, and he had to write paragraphs describing them.  The plan was for me to assist Connor making the totem pole on Saturday.  Connor was on and off motivated to make it, but at the end, he was able to make all the drawings with my help.  Today on Sunday, while I went hiking with my coworkers, somehow Connor was very motivated.  He with the help of Stuart wrote a nice essay about the totem pole animals in just 30 minutes.  I was shared a text with a proud picture of him while my coworkers and I barely started with the hike.  Connor wrote a great essay too when he read it to me after I came home.

    With the 14000 steps I earned from the hike, after lunch break and a quick nap, Connor, Logan and I went on a bike ride around the neighborhood while Stuart used the skateboard.  Later, I also walked with the boys to get T4U.  Today was an active day for me.