Since the 1st day of February (can't believe it's already the 2nd month of the year!) also coincided with the first day of the weekend here (just to remind y'all that weekends here in the kingdom are Thursdays and Fridays - don't ask me why!
), our schedule for the day was jampacked, as usual.
You see, eversince we moved to KSA five months ago, our weekends have been pretty hectic 
as we try and cram all the activities and chores we can into these two days - crazy but so true, I'm afraid... Yesterday was no exception. Here's a rundown...
Woke up ten-ish between cow duty breaks throughout the night to find the hubby already going about his routine - finishing up the laundry I did the day before, vacuuming the floors and then mopping the whole flat. Felt guilty so nagpaka-"Biba Hot Babe" naman ako and promptly prepared brunch for the fam.
Afterwards (this gets more exciting), I decided to do a general clean-up of the boys' room! Too bad I didn't heed the warning bells which immediately set off in my head the minute I took this task - believe me, if you are faint of heart, DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS. 
You see, our boys have this special talent for messing up a respectably neat and clean room in a matter of seconds - definitely one for the books, if I may say so! Given this, I wasn't surprised to find (hold your breath all you OC folks!)... piles and piles of scratch papers with drawings, scribbles, stories and what-have-you (I know, these are endearing in smaller quantities but definitely overwhelms you when you get more than 3!), 5 dirty unmatched socks in their toy boxes, an unmatched winter glove screaming for a washing, a used undie mixed with their clean clothes, bits and pieces of action figures and accessories (amazingly, they still knew which went together!).
Typical conversation during clean-up goes:
Rafa: "Ma, don't throw that... that's Yellow Ranger's sword!"
Me: "How will Yellow Ranger still use it when both her hands aren't there anymore?"
Rafa: "Alyssa (my brother Monty's "unica hija") kasi pulled out the hands and I don't know where she threw them e! Basta don't throw it ha?"
Case closed. Since Yellow Ranger managed to join us here from Manila despite her decapitated state, guess she's pretty special to my little boy...guess he still had some use for the darn sword. How can I argue with that? Sword goes back to toy box (sigh!)...
The great thing about the whole process (which took an agonizing 2 hours, by the way!) was that I got to spend time with Luigi and Rafa (okay, I admit, with a few exasperated screams now and then thrown in... sorry, tao lang!) doing something productive. What's more, they were "eternally beholden" to me after the clean-up for again bringing some sort of order into their chaotic lair (till the next playtime, I'm sure!). Well, boys will be boys! Though doing this seemed like sheer torture (something akin to doing the treadmill during the last 10 mins or so), my clean-up ordeal was over! Thank goodness!
So, after taking much-needed warm baths, the boys and I got ready to leave again for the Scitech Museum (this is worthy of another blog so I won't go into much detail here) in Al Khobar since Keith kept his end of the bargain to bring the boys there after clean-up was done. Suffice it to say that we all had an enjoyable time there and look forward to coming back again for the IMax show - hopefully with Ge and Ira already in tow.
We capped the evening with a very satisfying dinner at a nearby French coffeeshop that Keith discovered - Patti's France. I had the soup and sandwich combo while the boys had the Saffron Tagliatelle Pasta and soup. Both Keith and Rinel had the steak sandwich. An interesting concoction I discovered here was the minty lemon drink which I intend to replicate at home soon... yum-o!
As we headed home that night, all of us were tired but still in good spirits since we were happy with all that we managed to accomplish during the day... Until the next weekend!
