Home Sweet Home March 22, 2008

We are finally back from our vacation and we had a wonderful time.  We went to Texas over the weekend for a family reunion.  It was a great time, full of cards, ping pong, and catching up.  Squeaks had a blast playing with her cousins and I really didn’t see much of her, as she was running with the kids all of the time.  We stayed up way too late and slept in.  I was very sad when everyone left to go home.

But we didn’t have to go home yet!  We went over into New Mexico to see some old friends of ours.  They have an 11 month old little boy that we hadn’t met yet, so it was high time we saw them.  We spent a lot of time catching up and laughing while the kiddos played together.  One day we drove over to Carlsbad Caverns and took the tour there.  It was amazing.  I’ve been to caverns before, but this one was really neat.  Plus, Squeaks liked it, which shocked me.

We’re home now.  I’m really sad that our trip had to end and I really miss all the people I got to see again.    But I am glad that I can sleep in my own bed again and not an air mattress on the floor.  I’ve got some great pictures that I’m in the process of uploading now, so I should have some for you soon.

And I forgot to mention just how great Squeaks was.  She traveled in the car like a champ.  Only once did she get upset and it was in the last 20 minutes of the drive to Texas.  Other than that she was amazing.  She was polite and sweet everywhere we went and she wouldn’t stop kissing people (which probably explains why she’s sick now — again).  Now I can’t wait for the other trips we’re taking this year!

Girl Time January 5, 2008

Last night I met up with my 2 childhood best friends for some girl time.  We ate Mexican food, drank way too margaritas, then ate ice cream in an attempt to sober up (the diet I’m on allows for one cheater night a week, thank god!).  We talked and laughed, got incredibly too loud in the restaurant, and stumbled our way along the river walk in the windy cold night.  It was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.  It is only the first step in finding my identity this year as something other than a mother.  Granted, I talked about Squeaks a lot, but they didn’t mind as they think she’s the coolest kid ever!  I can’t wait to do it again!  Sadly, we all forgot to take pictures, which is very unusual for us.

Out of the Gutter November 18, 2007

My best friend is VERY pregnant right now, but she was desperate to get out of the house, so last night we met up with her and her husband for dinner and bowling.  Yes, bowling.  And that was the choice of the pregnant one!  I hadn’t been bowling in a long time, possibly because I suck at bowling.  I’ve come to accept my total inability to keep the ball in the lane, rather than the gutter and I usually have a pretty good time making fun of myself.  I’m talking I usually score in the 50’s when I bowl.  That bad.

But something finally clicked last night when I walked up to the lane.  Or it might have been the fact that I begged my pretty little yellow ball to go straight and then pretended to kiss it.  Either way, I was on fire!  I bowled 3 strikes in one game and countless spares.  Not only did I break my record score (not hard to do!), but I beat everyone else!  I was so excited that I took a picture on my camera phone of me pointing to my high score on the screen.  I know I’m a dork, but I was so excited.

But apparantly I peaked too early.  The other two games we bowled were horrible, with my scores back in the 50 range, but I didn’t care!  I had finally won a game of bowling and it did wonders for my way too competitive side.  So for the next week or so I’ll be gloating that I finally beat my hubby at something he’s good at!

No Longer a Mommyblogger April 10, 2007

Oh man. I think I’m just going to change this to a blog about dogs. It seems to be all I can talk about lately.

The couple I talked about in the last entry? They have a lot of pets. Most were evenly distributed by the two (meaning she took the well-trained ones and left him with the shitty ones…who can blame her?!). Well, the husband (we’ll call him Bob) is working and grieving full-time and feels that he can’t provide his dogs with the attention they need right now. So being the nice friends that we are, we volunteered to let him bring the dogs out to our place until he gets settled in his new house. Big mistake.

One is the fattest black lab I have ever seen. The other is a greyhound, also fat. On top of that, they are the most hyper, uncontrolled animals ever. When I take Lucy out to go to the bathroom, the others are right on top of her and the poor girl doesn’t even get a chance to go potty. That works well for housebreaking a dog. So now Squeaks can’t even go outside to play because these dogs will knock her down or maul her (in a nice way — they’re not violent). And we’re supposed to have Sears out here to do new siding this week and I’m sure they’ll just love having the world’s fattest dogs getting in their way.

Needless to say, I think Bob is going to have to come get his dogs. In fact, I think he will be getting a call tonight. I don’t want 4 freaking dogs. Two was really pushing it, but the fact that one was a farm dog made it better. Not to mention, I don’t want to be responsible for what these dogs may do to visitors, neighbors, etc.

So I’m sure that the next few days will be interesting, to say the lest, until Bob gets these creatures away from my house!