The Weekend was Great

It's so nice when weekends are relaxing. Sometimes they are stressful and I feel yards behind on Sunday right before the week begins again...but this weekend was great. We got a lot done and we rested a lot and the general mood of our house was calm and peaceful. It helped that my husband had this Friday off so we had a three day weekend and it was perfection. On Friday we did our grocery shopping and went out to ice cream. On Saturday we went to the local farmers market and the kids had Barton lesson and we all did a bunch of chores. I got all the laundry done! Sunday was church. 

I also got to tie dye some pieces I have been meaning to dye for a month or two. First I dyed a linen skirt and shirt a blue color. It turned out great. What was once a cream skirt and a light blue top that washed me out now are the perfect two piece set. I wore them to church today and felt fabulous. Becky even let me borrow her necklace which went perfectly with my outfit.

Then I mixed two dyes--a brown and a maroon--in an attempt to make a rust color. It didn't work, it made more of a purple (the pictures on my computer don't show the color correctly) but that's okay. I dyed two dresses, one cotton and one linen that I didn't like the original color of and now I have two amazing new outfits to wear next week, all for the price of a bottle of dye and some elbow grease. 

The kids each picked something to dye as well, even my husband joined in. We plan to tie dye more in the future it was so much fun. I'll take a picture of what the kids made soon and try to post it!

Another fun thing we did was, after decorating our new nature notebooks, we each drew our dream house. It was such a fun drawing activity and I loved to see what the kids put in their houses.

Here we have everyone's dream house. I totally googled a picture of a hobbit house to copy the layout of when I was drawing mine...

All in all it was such a good weekend and I'm ready for the full week of school we have planned and for all the hot weather. We have a day forecast for 87f next week...that's going to be crazy. And I have plants to plant. I may just give them to a friend...I don't know if I am up for a garden this year. 

I really need to make going outside a priority...but I keep getting caught up on alpha gal meal prep, house cleaning, homeschooling and being a potato while I drink tea that often the garden is the last thing on my mind!