Monday

Well, the weekend was nothing if not entertaining.

The Bear made it through surgery fine and was the picture of an excellent patient. I am most grateful for this, knowing that I myself, am a terrible patient in so many ways. I survived the weekend with his parental units, a little worse for wear, but all in all, a pleasurable time.  His mother made me happy telling me how much it shows that we love each other and with "oooohhss!" & "ahhhhs!" over the house plans. 


My darling husband was nice enough to send me on my way even though we had a munchkin with chicken pox, and him never having had them. At one point I called and he had 5 children in the house..Masochist or Insanity? You decide. 

Random other things:

• This (From Random Pictures) made me laugh this morning. 
• We now have a full count of relatives over 70 who have or want to read the 50 shades of Gray series. *shudders*
• I laughed at the bears parents serious mistrust of any vegetable that does not primarily consist of starch this weekend. The conversation went much like this:
• Me: I'll get the Broccoli
• Mom: B said she wanted Broccoli with the pork roast..I cant find a good roast so I'm going to make spaghetti and meatballs. 
• Me: Ok, what do you normally make with spaghetti.
• Mom: Pasta. 
• Me: ---------------
• The eldest munchkin is finishing up summer school today and tomorrow. I pray she passes. 
• We watched "Mirror Mirror" (cute movie, glad I waited for home rental though) and "Hugo" (Very strange..there was little to no follow through with any of the plot lines) this weekend. 
• To Do list:
• Find location and time of fireworks this year
• Upload all of the kids school calender info
• Check on house paperwork progress
• Make copies and mail legal  paperwork
• Find coupon notebook and reorganize (I've slacked here to a horrible degree)
• RE-pack SELF things in van for returning to their yearly home. I have to get them out of my shed.
• Try to go to bed at a decent hour so that you can actually follow through with waking up and exercising. I am fail at this lately. 
• Finish Mennonite in a little black dress so that I can give it to the Bears mom next weekend when I'm there. 

Meanwhile..work time. 

Monday Morning Madness

This weekend was killer in lots of ways. So a wrap up, a to do list and lots of random things..

• Spent friday with my guys trying to plan housing around teeny tiny little paint/counter/wall swatches and being totally lost to the process the majority of the time. Then racing to get one kid, make it to the courthouse for land deed handling and then racing back for softball all stars game. 
• I let some one else's bad parenting make me loose my temper Friday evening. It wouldn't have affected me so badly had it not been MY child. When I found out her father didn't bother to feed her dinner before a softball game, I was mad. When He tried to convince me that not eating was GOOD for her, I was livid. She got there at 6:15pm, the game was supposed to start at 7:30pm and at 8pm when it still hadn't started, she was hungry already.
• The Munchkins team lost 2 games over friday and saturday evening but they played their best and left us all very very proud of them. 
• It is still difficult to deal with someone's anger & hurt when you love them when their words are directed at you. 
• This week will see me in Atlanta, helping the boy (mostly against his will, I'm sure) as he deals with being incapacitated from knee surgery and wrangling his parents. It should be quite interesting, considering I've met them only once before and spent very little time with them. 
• Which reminds me..I have to pack..
• My aching joints, twitching bedpartner, & fighting cats kept me up most of the night. Lack of sleep made me hit snooze a lot. UGH. 
• I woke up saturday after sleeping in (blissfully) to the sound of both of them laughing and watching tv together. I smiled and thought how easily I could get used to that. 
• We walked out under a cheshire cat smile moon on saturday and stood in the middle of where the living room will be together. It's nice to know we're all going to be home soon. 

Time to bring home the bacon...