It was a weird Labor Day weekend. It was my first weekend in Charlotte that I didn’t have Finn in months where I wasn’t leading teacher training, a yoga workshop or traveling for work.
Honestly…I do not love these weekends and appreciate the distraction of work to get through to picking up Finn on Sunday.
Before he left on Friday, we took a long walk through the neighborhood and to the park. It was a beautiful morning and we spent about an hour and a half outside.
I spent the rest of the afternoon working before meeting my friend and fellow teacher Suzanne at Charlotte Yoga to take my friend Rian’s class at 5:45p.
On Saturday morning I took Suzanne’s class at 9:30a at Charlotte Yoga before subbing a class at 11a.
I had these grand plans of getting a ton of work done on Saturday afternoon but instead found myself wandering around the house and unfocused. I ended up baking. I made a double batch of my carrot maple oat banana bread (half as bread, half as muffins) as well as some oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookies. (Recipe soon!)
I got out of the house on Saturday evening to attend a pool party for Charlotte Yoga staff. These evenings out are few and far between and I did have a really nice time!
I subbed a yoga class on Sunday morning at 11a and then scooped up my boy. I didn’t get the feeling of whole heartedness that comes with having your child close until I had one of my own.
On Sunday evening Dorie invited us over for a Labor Day dinner/cook out. We had burgers, potato salad and salad.
And because my friends know me SO well, Dorie got me a slice of carrot cake from The Fresh Market.
Labor Day Monday brought my longest post-injury/surgery run/walk. We covered 4.8 miles on foot with running intervals. Felt amazing and no pain!
Stopped at the park to swing and play. Can we talk about Finn waving to Zoey. He is in love with her.
I decided to venture out to the Charlotte Premium Outlets on Monday afternoon. While my prediction that the traffic getting there would be light was true, I was in no way prepared for the insanity that was the number of people that were there. HOLY CRAP! It was my first time at the Charlotte Premium Outlets and overall, I thought they were very nice and I will return…just not on a holiday or probably even a weekend!
I got Finn some bathing suits and rash guards at Janie and Jack, a vest at Gap (had a return to make from online) and two pairs of sneakers at Nike.
That is all. Not an exciting Labor Day weekend but a good one!
What did you do for Labor Day weekend?
Do you like outlets or do you prefer the mall or online shopping?
We had a really quiet labor day weekend with very few plans. My husband took our son out to his mom’s for the afternoon on Saturday so I could run errands/get some things done around the house. I saw that you posted about buying toddler shoes recently so have to tell you about the deals I got at Once Upon a Child. I don’t know if you have that chain in Charlotte but it’s a 2nd hand store for kids clothes. I got 5 shirts and 3 pairs of shoes for our little guy for $30! The shoes were all in super great condition. I think kids grow out of shoes so fast that they don’t really wear them out. So I think I’ll be buying his shoes there for the forseeable future. They had huge bins for each size split out by gender. So cool!
I hate shopping so so so much so I prefer to do as much online as I can. There is a banana republic downtown close to where I work so I end up getting a lot of things there. I like getting new things but I hate malls so much. If I do need to go to a mall, I try to go at an off peak time and I am in and out so quickly – no window shopping or slow browsing for me!
Hi Jen!
What are your thoughts around the recent press with Nike – the female athletes that have come out around the way they’ve been treated in the past with pregnancy, injuries, etc.? Curious since you’re so involved in the fitness community in general. I’ve seen several bloggers show their dissatisfaction with the company by pulling support by way of not purchasing from them anymore – wondering if you had a different perspective!
Hi! Is that the kids vacuum that actually vacuums?? Does it work? To answer your question, love outlet shopping! I like being able to walk around outside. Since having kids I do a lot more online shopping though!