Last night was the annual school carnival from 5 to 8pm. What a zoo! Picture 300 kids and their parents all running around hyped up on cotton candy, sno cones, pizza and pop. The boys had a blast with each of them sprinting off in different directions with their friends as soon as we arrived. Our oldest had volunteered to work one of the booths as part of student council. His booth turned out to be the sno cone stand where as my wife tells it, he personally drank 9 gallons of blue sno cone juice or whatever it’s called. We then all ended up at our close friends house for some post carnival adult libations. The kids continued their self induced rampage by playing endless made up games and running throughout the house. They sometimes move so fast they seem like a blur. I think our littlest one has had a stomach ache since the middle of the night while the oldest is still asleep. Mom works from 11:30 to 7:30 today and needs to head down the street to give Bunker (remember the diabetic poodle) his morning shot. I guess she couldn’t get the muzzle on yesterday and pulled her hand away just in time to avoid a little nip on her hand.
My Mom leaves for Arizona early Monday morning. I’m glad she’s going as I think the sun and warmth will do her good. My little brother is driving her (and her car) down and will stay a week or so and then fly back. We (my wife and I) are both nursing small self inflicted headaches that we’re trying to drown out with second cups of strong coffee. Our friends (who’s house we were at and shared an adult pop or two with) are both already up and on the road as the Misses had to work (also at Whole Foods) at 7am while her husband had to be at a soccer game for one of their kids also at 7. They’ve got to be feeling worse than we are for sure!
Today’s going to be a muddy slushy mess outside as with 60 degree temps a lot of snow will be melting all at once. They say it’ll be in the 60’s for the next week or so which will be a nice welcome change from all the cold and snow we’ve had. We’re personally ready for summer. On TV there’s some fishing show with guys catching perch in the Great Lakes. When I was a kid, I remember my Mom and grandparents taking us to fish frys in Wisconsin when we were there for summer vacations. Oh man was that good food. Those were the days. It’d be fun to have a boat and live on a lake.
I have an hour or two worth of work to do this morning to get ready for next week. it seems there’s never enough time in the day to get everything done. The boys will wake soon all rested and ready to go so I’d better get some breakfast going. Mom’s now downstairs on the elliptical trying to get some exercise in before they wake while both dogs are asleep at my feet after a 30 minute bout of tug o war with a stuffed animal. This is about as peaceful and quiet as it ever gets around here. So time to go and start the day,
Have yourself a good day wherever you are and God Bless