weekend wrapup

We had an incredible, fast paced weekend.
W/o geting too much into it, since it's still hard to believe, our weekend started out horribly, at the emergency room w/ G at 9:30 at night. He's okay now, but it certainly taught me about how fast children move. i'm relieved that we have good health insurance, and our ambulance ride, and medical expenses will be covered by our insurance. Its strange to already know that we'll only have our $50 copay for the er visit (since we've already been there, done that with ambulance rides to ERs.) Thank god everything is okay-look out for another post/email from me about this subject.
The second half of our weekend started at 5am yesterday (w/ us not getting home from the hospital until 2am-you can see how little sleep we were running on!), with the plan to help hubby's aunt move out of her studio. She lives 3 hours away, and this was the best time to leave so we could get an early start, and get home within a decent hour. Hubby's aunt intended to give us all her belongings, as she was planning to move to the tropics, and wanted to travel light. We hired someone off of craigslist to assist hubby, and hubby couldn't have been more pleased with the caliber of the person. It was $100 well spent for 5 hours of work, plus the cost of breakfast and lunch for this person. It saved hubby time, and I was able to occupy the boys, and carry home the fragile items that didn't go in the moving van.
Looking at all her stuff, its like Christmas morning here. She gave me beautiful furniture from IKEA-all stuff I would have picked out for myself. Loads of kitchen, bath, bedroom items-all things that are classy, but way more $ than I could afford to spend at this time in our lives. We also got a bed and a couch-both items that we have needed for the additional rooms in our home, but never got around to buying. I'm so glad I waited to purchase those items. I plan on going through our own items, and freecycling lots of stuff in the coming weeks.
The children were well behaved on the trip. We loaded the car with drinks, snacks, and toys. We stopped frequently on the way home-in part so hubby would arrive home before us, and have a chance to unload the moving van w/o the children underfoot. Since we had food w/ us, the only meals we ate were the ones paid for by hubby's aunt, and the boys enjoyed the variety of stuff that was available to them. It worked out well, so that by the time we arrived in the city, hubby was on his way to drop off his helper at his home, and the moving van at the shop. We saved a trip doing it that way, and hubby rode back home in the van w/ us.
Today we spent a quiet Father's Day at home. Since we traveled yesterday, we planned to stay home and recuperate-and also go through some of the items we brought home. I made breakfast for hubby, and it was well worth it. We ran errands in V town, and spent the morning at Costco getting groceries. We only spent $20 to replenish the stuff I got from last week, and didn't get anything special for dinner. Hubby said he wanted to use what we had here, so tonight we're having chicken wings in the crock pot for dinner. I may make hubby brownies for dessert. Overall, it was a busy weekend, and I look forward to seeing what the week ahead brings us.