Had to peek...

at the scale this morning even tho my WI is tomorrow...but i figured i would assess the damage early and make a plan...but whew...i STS...

had an absolutely fabulous weekend even tho the reason for the gathering was a sad one...leave it to my hubby's hometown to turn it into a party! after 50 years, his lil town's school (k-6) closed it's doors...but they decided to do it in style and had a school reunion for anyone and everyone that attended the school since it opened...which for my hubby's family is three generations! his parents were there when it first opened it's doors (it was a consolidated school, combining the surrounding one room schools that were located throughout the countryside), then of course my hubby and his older brother and younger sister all went to school there...then my sister in law's little guy (who is now 15, and goes to highschool in the neighbouring town) went there ...
so on friday was registration and a concert at the rink of a whole whack of local talent! then a bonfire and my father in law's firework extravaganza! (he put on a show that was 31 minutes of pure excitement...he has his pyrotechnics license so he can purchase all those really big big big fireworks and man oh man did he!!!)
of course he needed lots of help so i didn't see my hubby for the majority of the day or night but thats' the price! it was sooooo worth it..and my baby boy slept thru most of them...lil girl wanted to go home but once i got her further away from the noise she was okay to stay and watch!
the next day was full of fun...Amma (that's icelandic for gramma) made a bunch of egg macmuffins and i did up a huge fruit platter for breakfast...then we had an Amazing Race team entered but me, hubby and the kids just toured the school and signed the gym wall, played at the park, went to the senior center where amma was working and had a lil lunch of a roll, cheese, pickles and more fruit!
then back to the house where it was naptime for the kids...so i went with my nieces back to the school to go play volleyball...then back to the house to get ready for supper at the hall...then from the hall back to the house for a visiting session, then to the rink for the social, which we took the kids too...it was awesome and i wished we had a sitter for the kids cuz i know hubby would have loved to go back after we put them to bed...oh well...then on sunday was the sad day as the closing ceremonies were after the lunch at the hall...
we got all set up to watch and they announced that once they locked the door of the school it would remain locked for the rest of the day so take 10 minutes and take one last tour...which me and hubby did...got to leave kids outside with the nieces...i could see the emotion on my hubby's face so i got tearly eyed as he led me through the school...we started in the kindergarten room...then on to gr 1-2, 3-4, 5-6...it was sad...then the ceremony started ...they put together a time capsule (complete with the strap from years ago!) and decided to put it in a crawlspace where it will stay up and until/or past when the building gets renovated (it hasn't been sold yet)...then there was this past year's students (the school population) who sang "saying goodbye" from the muppet movie...very touching! then the principal said his thank you's and a very moving speech which brought a lot of tears (my hubby included) and the final act of closing the school door! wow...and i never even went there and i was all choked up~!
then we went home, packed up had a big family visit...then off to home!
i'm exhausted today and need to clean, do laundry, get kids back on schedule, and get groceries...whew...somewhere in there i need to shred and make a food plan...lol...it'll all get done sooner or later!