Monday Morning Musings - Why Don't You Stay With Me?

(The title of this post has nothing to do with the post itself, other than it is the song that was on the radio when I was trying to come up with the title.) Let lovin' start, let lovin' start...

Steve was in Montana last week. On his way back home he stopped at a gas station in Idaho. Apparently in Idaho they sell guns at the gas station. So he couldn't resist picking this up for Aubrey. It is a Red Rider BB Gun. So ever since she got it the kids have been going around saying, "You'll shoot your eye out!" We did get an extra few doses of that movie last Christmas.

We had some mighty fine weather over the weekend. Last Fathers Day we gave Steve a gift card for 5 buckets of balls at a driving range and 5 rounds of golf. He has been so busy since then that he literally has had no time for golf. The gift card we bought expires in December so we figured we better use it while we still had a few days of good weather left. On Friday we took the kids and used all 5 buckets of balls. After the driving range, we went to Cafe Rio for dinner and then came home and had a family movie night and watched The Blindside. It was a fun family night. The next day Steve took Zac and a friend and used 3 of the 5 rounds of golf. 2 more left!

Good form Em!

Yeah. One of Zac's clubs got a little messed up. Addy was using it and she set it down in front of her driving pad thingy. She and I went to get more balls and Steve stepped in and started hitting balls in her space. One of his balls gone awry hit the club and shattered it.

The other day, Addy was digging around in my bathroom drawer. In the very back at the bottom she found a lidless chapstick. She pulled it out and looked at it and these were her very exact words: GROSS! It looks like some man used this in his armpit!

Come on feel the noise...Sorry. Steve is working from home today so we are sharing the office. He has to have music on to concentrate. I must have no music on to concentrate. He says the music blocks everything else out so he can think. When I hear music, I just sing along and there is no room for anything else. I am having a hard time concentrating on this post. We'll get wild, wild, wild...

You know how I found the perfect window coverings, but they were slightly out of our price range by tens of thousands of dollars? Well, I have found the second best thing. And it cost me nothing! On Sunday my mom and Lauren came over to watch the movie 17 Miracles, which I highly recommend. Anyhoo. While we were watching the sun was killing us. It was coming in these windows and there was no where we could move to avoid it. We could hardly see the TV and we were all sitting on the couch sweating. So Steve and I hung these lovely table cloths up that I had left over from kids parties. As we were hanging them we could literally feel a 20 degree difference in the room. Sweet relief. And I think they go perfectly with my lack of decor, so I plan to leave them for the time being.

Everything is different with your youngest child. You are a little more laxed. You sometimes celebrate their Birthday on the wrong date because you can't remember their actual one. You think it is cute when they dress themselves. I never would have ever let any of my other children leave the house like this. But sweet Addy dresses herself like this every day and I think it is so cute, I can't bear to make her change.

So we were do down to the wire and way beyond it when we were building the house. We finally got to the point where we just did what had to be done to get the certificate of occupancy and figured we would finish the rest after we moved it. Ha! You know how that goes. It doesn't. But this past weekend Steve has been working on finishing our deck. It is almost done (the red tape is still up from masking it off) and I am so excited. It looks so much better than it did. We just had the base coat on for the last 3 years and you couldn't walk out there without getting this dry powdery film on your feet. This is upstairs and we keep all our shoes downstairs in our mud room so any time we go on the deck, we are barefoot. I got to the point I never would go out there because I couldn't stand the way it felt on my feet. Well, that and the 10 bajillion mosquitoes. I am loving the new deck!

I had a few rough days this past weekend. I came out the other end a better person I think and with many many lessons learned. So as un-fun as it was, I am glad for the lesson learned. I also learned to never post on Facebook when I am seethingly angry. I always feel bad about it the next day. And I think I worried a few too many people. I got so many messages and phone calls. Thank you all for caring about me. All is good. Loving life and all that goes with it. I am so thankful for good friends and family that love me!

You make a grown man cry-y-y. You make a grown man cry-y-y.... (music's still on and I was able to finish this post!)