Monday Adventure

I’m trying to get back to writing more. It helps me center and unwind my thoughts and emotions. I think my new job got me so twisted up I didn’t know how to begin to unravel…so I’ve been just carrying this huge knot inside…feeling like I can’t begin to make sense of it.

Today, I’m not going to write about anything heavy though. Today, I’m going to write about Monday…which is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week. Forced Fregien Family Food and Fun every Monday…by far the best thing that has happened to us in a long time. This week my Monday story starts on Saturday. Levi needed new everyday shoes…so he and I went shopping Saturday morning. We started at Famous Footwear…struck out there…so went over to Kohls. He found a pair of shoes and then wandered across the aisle to the Kitchen Appliance section. Levi loves to cook…especially for his girlfriend…and his eyes lit up like Christmas when he spied this…

I can’t say no to my kids when they get that look on their face…and I could see lots of yummy meals in our future…so into the Bronco it went.

So Monday morning rolls around and I know Levi is planning on making us pizzas for our Food and Fun…but we need a table or something to put this on outside. So when Levi was done with his class he and I went shopping to see what we could find at the At Home store. Well, after much waffling and then realizing that the table and chairs we were looking at were all 50% off…we ended up with an outdoor dining table, four chairs, and an end table on our cart. All was good until we got to the parking lot…tried to slide the table into the Bronco…and realized that she wasn’t quite long enough…and we couldn’t get the tailgate closed. We looked at each other…said some choice words…and then decided that the only solution was to put the top all the way down so that we could poke the table up out of the roof and stack everything in there. And that my friends is what we did…laughing the whole entire time. And this is why my Bronco is in fact a truck.

We got home…unloaded everything…and then spent the rest of the afternoon assembling furniture in the backyard. We were playing music…chatting…throwing balls for Emmett…laughing about our adventure. It was great.

We got everything together just before it got dark and then came in the house to start assembling our pizzas. They turned out fantastic. Levi even made the dough from scratch.

It was a super good day after what had been a super busy weekend at work. Just what I needed.

I also need to mention that Levi brought home some hardware from a tennis tournament he played in over the weekend. I wasn’t able to watch any of his matches because I was working, but he won the Consolation Bracket!