The holiday weekend is over now, and with this many mosquito bites and leftovers, it must have been great!
Friday evening we went as scheduled to Josh's mom and dad's house. It was a little crazy there. They were leaving for the lake, and we caught them as Josh's dad was re-packing the car to fit Austin and Sydney, my niece and nephew, who were added to the group at the last minute. Josh's mom was supposed to already be there, but wasn't, so there was some serious high blood pressure on the part of Josh's dad. Eventually she did show up, and they left to join the reportedly miserable traffic. We had Popeye's fried chicken and macaroni salad and Pringles and popsicles and s'mores and vanilla ice cream for our root beer, orange and strawberry sodas. Strawberry soda and vanilla ice cream is not quite as yummy as it sounds. There was swimming with Johnny and Becky and Baby Wyatt, and then we started shooting off our fireworks. Heather and Renee and J showed up, too. After the fireworks they stayed and we played games and had more unhealthy desserts. It was great.
Saturday morning there was a little picking up here, but not enough to call it "cleaning". But we did get the week's grocery shopping done. We went to Amelia's birthday party in the afternoon. The kids hopped right in the kiddie pools right away. And Abbie stayed there forever. She missed the singing and even missed eating cake and Amelia opening her presents. Hee. I was sitting around eating fruit salad all night. It was yummy. I still had the headache I had since Thursday morning, but it was more fun than sitting home alone with a headache. Eventually Abbie got cold and I re-dressed her. She spent the remainder of the evening charming party guests. Grant and Amelia share a passion for dinosaurs, so they were happy, too. We left when it was Amelia's bedtime, promising to come back Saturday to help the Frankes move into their new apartment.
We had actually planned to stay home on Sunday, but ended up shooting fireworks off with the neighbors. During the day, I made a fancy fruit dessert, the one where the crust is sugar cookie, and then you make a cream cheese icing and top it with blueberries and strawberries. And for dinner, Josh grilled brats and pork steaks. Around 7, we cut up a watermelon and carried it to the neighbors' house. It wasn't quite as ripe as it could have been. They'd made cookies, so we (Josh in particular) had some, and then started the fireworks show. It was fun. Abbie did...okay. She's sensitive to the noise, and once she got used to that, she was still afraid of some of them that had spark trails. She didn't want them to "get on" her. She loves fountains, though. So do I.
I called over at my grandmother's house. I didn't get to talk long, but it sounded like they were all having a great time.
The last thing we did was to watch the Warren County Fair's fireworks display from our deck. They were great. We could see nearly all of them.
Now I have an army of mosquito bites on my feet, two filthy children, and my kitchen is trashed. Josh ate almost the whole pan of fruit dessert already. He's working today, too. I need to do a load of laundry for him. And I need to pay bills. Is the mail running today? Anybody know?
This week has no special plans. I have taiko on Tuesday and Thursday, of course, and on the weekend we are helping Ryan move.
My brother, by the way, is looking for work.
I am going to start that laundry. Hope you have a wonderful day, whether you are at work or at home or on some fantastic vacation.
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