The Thing wants me to use the word laquacious but this is the only way I could fit it in

But if you want to hear how the weekend went, you'll need words like these:
best kind, beyond compare, boss, capital, champion, chief, choicest, cool, crowing, culminating, excellent, finest, first, first-class, first-rate, foremost, greatest, highest, incomparable, inimitable, leading, matchless, nonpareil, number one, optimum, outstanding, paramount, peerless, perfect, pre-eminent, premium, prime, primo, principal, sans pareil, super, superlative, supreme, terrific, tops, transcendent, unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled
(Thank you thesaurus.reference.com)

Um, yeah.
The weekend rocked.

The Thing arrived around noon on Friday and stayed through until Sunday evening. Both kids at different points during the weekend, came to me and told me they thought The Thing was cool. The Girl was won over almost immediately and by the time my Thing left, she had a major crush going and there were even a couple times when I saw her take his hand when they were walking together. For The Boy; after hearing my plans to have The Boy rake my (huge) yard Friday afternoon, The Thing came prepared with his leaf blower. He scored additional points with The Boy when he not only let him use the leaf blower, but when The Thing also picked up a rake and proceeded to help The Boy clean the back yard.

Granted, I know there is a 'honeymoon period' going on, but it was also a real weekend, which was very important for us to see. This wasn't a weekend of the two of us hiding from the world and losing ourselves in each others eyes (which is very easy to do with The Thing). Instead, it was a weekend with two kids, leaf raking, bed time routines, a jealous ex-husband, bowling, Noggin, a broken freezer door, swingsets and a potty accident at the store.

And I fucking loved every second of it.

And so did the kids.

And so did The Thing.

And The Paperweight...is going to be a problem...