Hello! Did you miss me?
Josh loves his new job. And this week it is the happy and familiar schedule he had in Yuma that I loved so much: 7-3. That is the day schedule there, and I have great hopes that someday he will be assigned permanently to the day shift. Right now, though, he's still in training and will be experiencing a little bit of all the different shifts. I think today he is getting uniforms, if they are in. I love that he will be home in plenty of time for me to leave for taiko. We even can eat together first!!
On Friday, we invited everyone we knew and sang karaoke in St. Charles. It was super fun. Everyone had a great time! The kids were supposed to go with their grandma to my niece, Sydney's first play, but the air conditioning broke at the playhouse, so they stayed at Grandma's and swam in the pool. When we picked them up in the morning we swam, too, and then came back home. Josh and Grant got haircuts, and Jake got his toenails clipped, but that was all the family togetherness we were to have. Josh got a phone call from Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim had to go to a funeral and couldn't stay with Grandma Mroczkowski, so he asked if Josh would come and spend the night there in case of emergency. He took Grant with him, and Abbie and I stayed home.
When I was closing the curtain I saw a woman walking dogs...one of which had escaped and was capering merrily around the neighborhood. Knowing that this big black dog would probably come to anyone except the woman she was supposed to be with, I went out and called the dog. Her name, it turns out, is Spirit. How apt. I did eventually get Spirit and held her until her walker came. It seems that the lady is babysitting Spirit, who wiggled out of her collar. Sadly, it was a fancy collar, and we couldn't figure out how to re-size it. And Spirit was wiggling again. So I looped the leash through the collar and they walked Spirit back home to re-adjust the collar under calmer circumstances. And then I felt like a nice neighbor and went in to watch a post-bedtime movie.
Note: When your husband is called away for the night, it is not a good idea to watch movies about women who are attacked by murderers when her husband is gone for the night.
They came home in the morning, and I started laundry. ...but I kind of fell down the stairs. Yeah. That hurt. But mostly I felt like an idiot for falling on the stairs. That's sort of a toddler/brittle old lady thing to do, and I hope that I am neither.
I made scrambled eggs with cream cheese, shredded mixed cheese and fresh tomato for dinner. And toast. It started to cloud up and storm, so we got out board games and candles. The electricity did even go out, just not when we were playing. Josh beat me two rounds at Boggle, which is usual. It's the only game I can think of that I love despite the fact that I routinely lose. then we played UNO, and I played on a team with Abbie, since she doesn't quite have the attention span for cards just yet. Josh won 3 hands in a row. The kids have also been playing checkers with him lately, but we didn't play on Sunday. It was getting close to bedtime.
Did I tell you that I read Penrod and Sam? It's another Booth Tarkington novel. He's just an amusing guy, but the story is mostly about a perfectly rotten 12 year old boy. I still prefer Seventeen. I'm glad I read it, though. Apparently it's part of a trilogy about Penrod, but I don't know if I'm going to go so far as to read them all. I've had about enough of ol' Penrod just now.
Another of my more recent projects is battling the ants that are living in my kitchen. First, I set out ant traps. That worked for about a day. Then the ants started going around them. Then, I scrubbed the @#%* out of my kitchen counters and wall to make sure they did not smell like anything appetizing, unless you happen to like soap. I moved everything to a different location. That worked for a few hours. I sprayed a little Lysol to see if it would deter them. Nope. So today I got out the real ant spray. The last straw was when I took out a "clean" cup for Abbie and it had an ant in it. I don't know exactly where they are really living, but I know they come from a crack between the cabinets and the wall, so I sprayed it two different times today. Probably what will happen is that they will start coming from somewhere harder to locate, but I'm doing my best. And I've at least made a small dent in the population. Perhaps they'll decide it's not worth the risk?
Also today, we played outside and took a walk. I have a carrot cake I was going to make. Maybe today. And Abbie poked a stick in her ear and made me cry with worry, but as near as she can tell, her ear still works.
This Friday, we are going to shoot fireworks. Josh's parents are going to leave for the lake, and they say that we can ask people over and use their house and yard. Josh is SUPER excited, but I'm not sure how many of our friends will be available. And he can't seem to give anyone decent notice. Josh, Josh, Josh... But we will be there. Maybe we'll swim again. Saturday we plan to go to Amelia's 3rd birthday party. It's in the afternoon, but I'm sure Josh plans to stay late. Sunday I had toyed with the idea of seeing my grandmother, but Josh doesn't have Monday off, and it's 3 hours away. So we will stay home, and watch the Warrenton Fair's fireworks from our deck. I am hoping to have a big, cold watermelon, too.
My mother's air conditioner broke this weekend. I called yesterday to see if she wanted to come over and visit me and my air conditioner, but she was already waiting for repair men to show up. By evening it was all better, and she was sounding much less miserable.
Sadly, we cannot go to Kansas City on June 10th. It just isn't working out. I'm sad about it. I'd been planning it a long time. But it's obviously not a good time. We're going to try again for sometime in the fall. I'm also toying with the first weekend in November as a potential Cousin Weekend, since I'm missing Sky's 21st this weekend.
Well, you know me. I'm always planning something.
I hope you have a happy week!
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