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The right type of boredom is actually good for you.  I have been reading about it since I became a parent.  Unfortunately for me, when my son gets bored, something gets taken apart, cut down, dug up, or otherwise adds stress and a crap ton of work to my life.  He is crazy creative and motivated but balance is not in his vocabulary.  Yeah yeah first world problems... Yesterday was immensely productive.  My whole family worked all day on a project that involved picking up a wheelbarrow full of rocks, putting down about a half a yard of loam, putting the rocks back, seeding the loam, and moving two rain barrels into place while trying to make them aesthetically pleasing as possible.  I roasted a chicken and we ate a late lunch on the deck.  The weather was amazing and so as anyone who lives in New England knows, if the weather is good, one must take advantage of it.  We absolutely took advantage of it!  My husband and I even managed to go work o...

Although the days are blurring into one another, this weekend stuck out because it was my son's 17th birthday on Saturday and Easter on Sunday. We never anticipated that we would need to go shopping 6 weeks ago for birthday presents so we shopped on Amazon and a couple of other online stores but still ended up wrapping up a couple of boxes of pop tarts to "sweeten" up his weirdest birthday ever.  I did make cinnamon buns for breakfast and we ordered pizza for dinner.  My husband brought him to our local bike store to get some parts for his bike.   It would have been a pretty pathetic day except for the fact that my son's friends surprised him with a zoom call and we picked him up a Rush from Aroma Joe's , (the definite highlights of the day). Sunday was beautiful.  We slept in and took our time "hiding" the eggs.  When we finally made it outside to hunt for them, the sun was shining, the birds were chirping and it was just another amazing day.  ...