Several Days Packed into a Rant

For those of you that think that I may have slipped off the edge of the Earth(because it might be flat, you know,) I haven't. Life around here has been a little more than insane. The kids activities have kept us hopping, and sometimes jumping, and sometimes flying. It was a lot to handle with both boys in baseball, football, and whatever else may have come along, but now, add the youngest one to the mix and Poof! Life becomes insane! For example, I will give you our typical Saturday, this past one: 830am: Daniel needs to be in East Moriches, a town that is about 15 miles away, for a 930 am game, Cassidy needs to be at her game/practice by 9am, and Patrick needs to be at his game by 1130 for a 12pm start. Needless to say, we were split as parents for almost the entire day. We met back up for dinner with my inlaws and Scott's brother and sister in law, and shopping afterwards for the kids Spring/Summer clothes. As I have said before, my in laws are great people, they are extremely generous to me, and to my children. My mother in law enjoys shopping more now that she has Cassidy, you can see it on her face when she is "helping" Cassidy choose clothes. Girls are fun to shop for, and can be very dangerous, but it is my Mother in law that becomes dangerous when she is in the store! TEE HEE! a little joke there, she loves every minute! So does Cassidy.

Sunday was my hubby's 41st birthday, he finally caught up to me, and reminded me that I am closer to 42 than he his! I sort of vegged around here and he planted plants in the flower beds and in the veggie garden. Last year, we did neither, because we were too busy working on the kitchen, and by the time we realized that there was nothing in the ground, we realized that it was too late. So the soil had a rest, and it will be the better for it this year. Hey, maybe we will get a "real" tomato from our own garden this year! We haven't had any luck since we moved here with the veggie production. Scott scaled it back a little this year and it may take a little less maintenence and a little better care! We will see, and I will keep you posted on that one. We had a nice dinner, london broil, baked potatoes, veggies and a salad. Then I had made a boxed "funfetti" cake and iced it with m&ms on the top and had cake and coffee. Cassidy called it a party and invited his parents to come for cake. I hadn't planned on having anyone over, it isn't something we do for our birthdays, but since Cassidy insisted, it was done!
Monday dawned quietly, Patrick had a school home game and Daniel a practice, no problem, or so we thought. It turned out that we had a mandatory meeting to go to regarding Patrick's school trip to Philadelphia. WHAT?????? When were the kids told about this????? Oh, a memo was sent home with them on FRIDAY, yes folks, FRIDAY! If it wasn't for Billy telling his mother that she had to go, I wouldn't have heard about it at all! SO we ran home and picked up the other car, Scott ran to get Daniel at Practice along with Tyler, Billy's brother, they are on the same team, and are best friends like the older two, and off to the meeting we(Patrick andme) flew. In the mix of things, Cassidy was sent home with an earache, so she had to go to the doc today. Turned out to be an ear infection, so I am glad that I took her.
Yesterday, Scott who is off from work for the week, ripped out our main bathroom. Right down to the subfloor. tile flying off of the wall and all. His Dad came over to help, and we are now in the process of putting in plumbing, lighting, outlets and the like. I have to pick tile for the floor, a medicine chest, a vanity a toilet and a sink. He wants this done by the morning tomorrow, but I have to bring home the medicine cabinet so that he can see if it needs to be framed out and sunk in the wall! HOw the heck am I supposed to do that???????? UGH! I have a dental appointment to finish the two root canals that were done on WED of last week! OH well, just another day in my life, no rest for the weary! So I will go and then drop off the medicine chest on the fly, and run like a nut to the dentist, hope my IPOD is charged, I need it for the dentist! Scott is going to put Cassidy on the bus in the morning, so that I can be at the home improvement store that begins with and"L" early in the morning! WHEW! Maybe things will slow down a bit by Memorial Day, in time of rthe "at home" tournament! YARD SALE THIS WEEKEND, to get rid of more stuff and raise more funds for the team! Guess where it is? yup, here. OH well signing off to get the laundry done!

Weekend's Over

Today dawned sunny, clear and COLD! It is supposed to warm up though, so we will wait and see. We had a heck of a storm on Friday, dumped a few inches of snow/ice on Long Island. I guess that it is winter's last hurrah before spring. Let's hope that it is, anyhow.

I watched a lot of tv this weekend, and noticed that my unfavorite commercials still exist. The BURGER KING has a new commercial out there to scare the masses again. The gieco with the celebrity "helpers" are still on, and the endless "refinance" with us commercials. I refuse to buy anything from Burger King. I hate that guy dressed up in the king costume, with the plastic mask. It is frightening. I remember having nightmares about things as a kid. If I were a kid these days, I would have incredible nightmares with the king as the subject matter.

Scott finished the taxes, and I will be mailing the returns out within the next couple of days. I don't want to pay the IRS $25 for the privledge of efiling. Scott doesn't trust the efiling system, he feels that our personal information is out there for the cyberworld to get their mitts on, so no way for us. Whatever, for me it is about the money.

Daniel finished his science project/report, so Scott let him off of his punishment. I still won't allow any playtime Monday-Thursday, after school. It gives him incentive to finish his homework and to spend some time on studying for tests. I have had to crack down to this to make him understand that school is the most important thing in your life. He can go out on Friday afternoon, play all day on Saturday and Sunday, but with all of the other activities going on in his life: baseball, practice, and games, basketball games and the like, he needs to crack down and get studying. I am not driving to and fro summer school. No way, no how!

I have been slowly going through things for the big Yard Sale: now keep a good thought on this one, we need good weather and good traffic to get people to get out there and buy our stuff for themselves! I have two terrible piles of stuff that will be put out for the sale, and will find more as the week drowns on. I told you all that I went through Cassidy's room and got a huge bag of garbage and several bags of toys and stuffed animals out, so those will sell. I also must go through the stuff in the basement, but have already run out of containers to put the stuff into.
Off to do laundry and I think that I must dust the living room over the next couple of days. I also have a dentist appointment in another 2 hours, so toodles for now!