The Weekend Recap
Subtitled: It is so awesome to have friends and family nearby.
Friday night: Steph and the kids swung by for dinner. My Kelly and her Erin are crazy funny friends, the two of them are so cute together. Then I cut some fabric, we watched some Olympics, and it was great to just hang out.
Saturday, Zach's actual birthday: I made biscuits and sausage gravy (gravy from scratch with whack'em biscuits) as requested by the birthday boy. Then I sat down to sew and... well started a few pieces but felt out of sorts so I started cleaning. I scrubbed the kitchen hardwood floor on my hands and knees... It looks fabulous (this is the second time I've done it) but it really sucks for my hands and knees. Then I cleaned all the bathrooms. I do love me a shiny clean house but a maid would be nice already. lol Meanwhile the boys (Greg, Zach, and Kyle) were off playing golf.
Saturday night: I went to the State Fair! Right, it's no big deal but I was a 4-H member for 10 years (kinda like being a high school salutatorian, I did a bunch of work for the honor and no one cares) and had projects reach the State Fair level but never attended. I have to cut my parents a lot of slack though. The State Fair? Not so exciting really. Anyway it was a good time being out with Greg, Sarah, and Steven. Oh right, I was that awful mom who went out on her son's birthday but we ordered him his favorite pizza for dinner and let him open a new Wii game and I honestly don't think he noticed we were gone. Plus the babysitter let him stay up way later than we would have. lol
Sunday morning at 4am: I puked. I'm still not positive the cause but I think it had something to do with the fried fair food I ate Saturday night. Or the margarita and two shots at the bar after the fair. But I usually hold my liquor well and I never eat fried foods so we're blaming the food. Even thinking about the fried mushrooms is making my stomach turn again. Yuck.
Sunday afternoon: I pulled myself together mostly to have Zach's actual birthday party with my parents, Greg's parents, Steph and family, and Sarah and Steven. See this is the whole point of this post, it is so awesome to have friends and family nearby! The weather was gorgeous, I didn't burn the burgers too bad (I didn't eat one though, see queasy stomach above), and Zach is 11! Wheee!
And now onto today. I'm not ready for school to start tomorrow. The kids have supplies and new shoes and today we'll attend a Back to School Social thing. But I'm not ready to deal with early mornings and homework and filling out papers (Kelly already has a folder full of them for me from last Thursday). I finally found out the bus number, stop, and pick up time yesterday afternoon. My back up plan there was to let them sleep on the sidewalk tonight. *winks*
Still working on Zach's school stuff although I may have gone off a little too much at the township secretary on Friday. She said she left me a phone message about the test time (in the tone of "you're an idiot for not showing up at a test that you didn't know was happening in a school district where we do everything in the most illogical way possible to screw with your head") and they can't do anything until January. January?!?!? Also? I'm 99% sure there was no phone message. This is as she finally returned my phone calls from Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning and now there was nothing they could do on a Friday afternoon as her boss (again I've always dealt with this secretary) was out. The whole "there is nothing we can do" is what is killing me because you're telling me that if some super smart kid moved into the school district tomorrow and just because he missed one test last Tuesday at 9am, he couldn't be put in the challenge class until January? Grrr...
Okay right enough ranting, that's the weekend update and I really should be either sewing or running around freaking out because today is the Last Day of Summer for the kids. And I'm so not ready.
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