Picking up the drama princess!

So, tomorrow morning I have to go to the airport and pick up my youngest daughter. She went to grampa's house, in New Hampshire, for a week. This is the first time she has EVER been away from home. This kid will not even spend the night at a friend's house! I usually have to go pick her up in the middle of the night, IF I even said yes to begin with. Drama Princess was calling me the first few nights, crying, telling me she wants to come home, which obviously she is not going to do because I'm not driving 9 hours to get her!! She also made it a point to tell me that she cried herself to sleep the night before. OH MAN, that was a heart wrencher! I wanted to tell my dad to change her flight and send her home! But I did well, I just kept our conversations upbeat and didn't let her know I was missing her too!

After about the 3rd night she was fine. No more crying and she was going to sleep on her own without crying. I was praising her beyond necessary.

Anyway now my next anxiety inucing thing is her flying home, with her 10 yr old cousin. Now, when I was a kid, and the was a LONG time ago, my brother and I flew to Florida to stay with my dad for the summer. It really wasn't a big deal back then. Not to mention it was a short flight. I am totally freaking out about her doing this!!! I know, maybe I may be overeacting a bit but with 911, oh I don't even want to think about it. Ok, she will be fine and I am going to be there probably and hour before her flight even gets in, at the gate. I will have my camera too. I gotta catch the scrapbooking moments, ya know? Sick, I know.

Learning something new....

Is such a challenge, especially when you want to know it, like, yesterday. I have decided to learn more about web design including how to make blog headers etc. One thing about me is that when I want to learn something, I get obsessive about it. I will research for HOURS about it and find websites with information on the subject. So, with that said, I have ignored my kids and hubby for about 4 days just being on the computer, learning. I know, bad mom. Don't worry, they are fed, bathed and have clean clothes so I haven't been neglecting them completely. I will show you some of the new banners, headers whatever you want to call them, when I get some made.

It's been a while

Hey there! Sorry it's been so long since I have been on here to update. I have actually been busy!
My youngest daughter, Drama Queen, just left on Saturday to her g-pa's house, she has never been able to sleep away from home, so this is the first trip away from the family!! Of course, I got the call last night, fairly early, that she wanted to come home. Uh, not happening. She is in New Hampshire, which is about an 8 hr car ride from us. I hope she will have so much fun she will get over the homesickness. My poor baby, maybe that's the problem, I baby her to much!
My son, who didn't go to g-pa's this trip, is home complaining that he's bored. We went and got a trampoline yesterday. It's been fun so far. Hubby has even gone on it, it was so funny to see him doing some kind of activity with our son. When he got off, he said his legs felt giggley! Yes, I jumped too. I am going to get on that thing a lot, I gotta lose some weight and I tell ya, that things makes me tired very quickly!

Weekend in review

I was bored yesterday so I thought I would get out and use my camera a bit. I took some pictures of the flowers in the backyard. I am not, by any means, a photographer so taking nature photos is kinda cool. Here are just a few. The one up top is my kitty, Sunshine. She is so sweet. She likes to lick my legs for some odd reason. The birdhouse is very old, obviously. The flowers are one bush that has 2 different colors on it. Cool.

The family and I were supposed to go to see fireworks in Laurel, with my friend and her family plus a bunch of other families that we know, but I didn't feel like it, so we stayed home. I layed in bed, I am PMSing, and watched "deadliest catch" for about 3 hours. That show is just insane! I did feel a bit better and thought that my life could be worse, check out those guys.

We decided to sell our Little Tikes playground. When I say playground, it is huge, with swings. I had to go out and pressure wash it to clean it up for the people coming tomorrow to look at it. I think it probably took about an hour to get all the crude off of it. We've had it for about 7 yrs, but it looks new. That rocks! I want to get a trampoline for the kids, and for me too. It will be so awesome for us to get out there and just have fun. I can't wait. Hubby thinks someone is going to break a bone in the first 2 days, he's a party pooper!!

So, I ended up pressure washing the entire house!! I love doing that! I like that I can clean just about anything with that machine. Sididng, gutters, windows and I even cleaned the patio in the backyard. Good times. I am really tired and soaking wet but it was all good.

My brother and niece came over and stayed all weekend. It's cool to have my niece over, she's that same age as my daughter, Drama Princess. The kids went in the basement and proceeded to trash it, with polly pockets, barbies, race cars and some other misc. items. At about 11pm my bro says he's gonna leave and leaves me with a big mess to clean up. No, my kids don't clean up after themselves, whatever. My whole thing is "if you want something done right do it yourself." I know it's a pain in the ass but my kids a lazy and I don't want them just throwing the toys wherever.

So, that was my boring weekend.

Blast from the Past

Have you been sitting around and wondering what ever happened to your best friend from middle school or the guy you used to be great friends with in high school? I have been doing that for the past year. Well, I found 2 people to whom I was very good friends with back in the day. I found myy friend John, who was a very close friend, we lost touch for about 15 years, and a woman that I was very good friends with , Lisa. It is so funny how you find out that these people have grown up and have their own families just like you. It seems like time stands still and they should not have all these great things, not that I wish that on anyone. Both are married with great jobs, marriages, and kids. I am so glad that they are happy and made a great life for themselves. It's also great to reminese(?) about the past with people who were "there" in your crazy past. So, I talk to John just about every day, catching up on life and Lisa I have been emailing. Lisa sent me a picture of a group of us girls at homecoming, in 1985!!! It was a good laugh! I miss the old days but don't want to go back!
Happy Fourth of July.