We were so grateful Ali and Elise came to spend a few days with us!!
They made the drive with just one stop, which has me ALMOST feeling like we're basically neighbors. We always wanted to be neighbors and it's not in our cards, so I'm grateful we've at least got a one-stop-drive going for us.
We ended up both coming down with the same thing and feeling sick all week though, so it was survival together with these two babies. It's hilarious to me that Camden is months older than Elise because they feel like the exact same stage now. Just walking around, getting into things, "sharing" with each other, crying when the "sharing" didn't get reversed, poking each other (Elise...), fussing too much about each other (Camden....) haha, they are just so funny to watch.
Ali made us protein balls and butternut squash soup and cleaned my kitchen floor and played with my boys. She's just the best. And it felt like such a shame to have early bedtimes all week because of being sick, but I'm grateful we got to at least be miserable together :)
On Thursday they drove home and she and Elise did great on the 7-hour drive. That same day we had all the insulation removed from our house (it was poorly done originally and our house gets SO cold and/or hot) as well as some other workers to redo our fireplace so we can put in a unit that works. Those things combined will help us have a much cozier home in our future! Camden actually still took a nap even while they removed insulation all day, but the next day we had an electrician here the full day and we had a full day of awake time for him. We knew we'd need lights eventually in all our rooms rather than just lamps, and since it will be so much easier to install while the insulation is removed, we had that done the next day. So long days of people in your home and awake babies are not always the shortest feeling days but I'm super grateful for the work that's getting done!
Friday we did a bowling mystery shop which is the first time we've taken the boys bowling in ages. It was fun until it wasn't, but the did really like it while we were there! We've gotta work on transitions out of fun things though...
Then Saturday we made a trip to the nursery for raspberries and grapes. The boys love playing in the rocks there and Michael is in his happy place there too.
Ali watched Camden with Elise while Michael and I went to brunch on our 9th Anniversary Wednesday! Nine years. For some reason I feel old enough that we should have double digits under our belt at this point, so I'm glad that's coming next year :)
It was a good week but always so sad to say goodbye to my sister. Double sad now that it means saying goodbye to sweet Elise too. Nobody gives open mouth cheek kisses like that cute girl.
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