A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

Do you ever have one of those days when you, oh, I don't know, are just cranky? Have no patience? Maybe both? That's me today. I'm not sure why, and I know what you ladies are thinking. Its not that. Maybe it has something to do with going from having 1 boy to 3 in the span of 2 hours on Saturday. Its not that I don't enjoy having my nephew over to visit, I really do. Its just that now I have 3 boys to deal with instead of 2. which means 1 extra one to entertain, feed and make sure that they don't kill each other. I'm so glad that we're not having any more kids. 2 is plenty!!

I want to go in my room, close the door and hide from them until its time to go to bed. Thankfully, Richard has some stuff to do outside, so the boys had to go back outside to be with Richard and give me some peace and quiet. So I can finish folding the last 2 loads of laundry of the 5 that I did today.

Speaking of laundry, one thing that we have is a clothes line, right outside from the front door. I have been hanging all our towels and bedsheets outside, one, to save electricity, and two, 'cause I like the way they smell when they've been line dried. The one thing I don't like? Stiff, not fluffy towels. The sheets come out fine, but the towels, well, lets just say I prefer them dried in the dryer so they are all fluffy. I don't hang clothes out to dry though. I don't want to have to worry about fading.

Well, its official. Its been determined that the power source for our PC is dead. So Richard gets to order/buy a new one. A friend of his who is a computer geek and used to live out here (they were in the same unit, but Rob is back in Utah now where he's from) said that there is a computer parts store in downtown Sparta, so Richard is going to go there first before we order a part from Dell. Suprisingly, Dell has the cheapest power source that we can find on the internet.

We can again start putting the boys to bed at 8:00pm. (I'm doing the Snoopy happy dance) We have been having to wait till its darker (around 9:00pm) because their room is still so bright when its bedtime. I remedied that today. I put up cardboard in their east facing window. So now its perfect. And it will hopefully help them sleep later in the morning as well, instead of getting up at the crack of dawn.

You know, I think I'll go take a few outside pictures of the house, so I can give you all a tour tomorrow....

Working again, David & Reunion Pictures

Well, Richard got the PC going again yesterday. We think the power supply might be going out. Luckily, its only a $30ish part, so if we have to buy one, its not a huge deal. Much cheaper than buying a new computer. And we’ve had this one since 2004. Yeah, we’ve added some memory, and some additional hard drive space (a terabyte), so there is no reason to get a new one if we can fix the old one right? We’ll see how much longer this one lasts…..

We talked to David again last night. I wasn’t even on the phone with him for 2 minutes before he started crying. Made me cry, too. I had to explain to him that he only had 2 more sleeps before he’d see us again. It was about all I could take. “I miss you so much, Mommy, and I miss Daddy, and Nathaniel and the dogs, too.” All said amid the sobs of a 6 year old.” And I love you so much, and I miss you so much and I want you to come and get me now.” Talk about ripping out my heart and stomping on it. This morning Richard and I were wondering who he was going to hug first. Richard’s theory? Whoever he sees first.

Here are the reunion pictures I mentioned earlier. Many thanks to Nancy, Sam and Will for taking them!

Richard and I in a rare moment without the kids.

All of the 2nd cousins. My brother, Chris, is behind me in the light blue shirt.

David and Nathaniel are on the far right, with the cousins that are under 10.

Our family.

Just the four of us.



Again, the four of us, with David doing what he does best. Hamming it up!

Richard and I are going to see Transformers 2 tonight. I'll have to give it a review tomorrow. Have a wonderful 4th of July weekend!

Not a Good Start.....

To the morning. I turned our PC on this morning, and its not doing anything. Well, that's not exactly true. The fan is running. Very, very loudly. Luckily for me, Richard left his laptop at home. He normally takes it to work, but didn't today.

Its really quiet right now. Nathaniel is at pre-kindergarten summer school; his last day for this week. Then he has it all next week. I should really get up and clean the kitchen & dining room, but my newest Star Wars book is calling my name.

I didn't get to talk to David on Tuesday night. He called my cell phone, but I don't get service at the house, so he left a message, which I got yesterday morning. It was so sweet. "I miss you, Mom. I love you!" It about made me cry. I did get to talk to him last night, which about made me cry again, 'cause he again told me that he missed me. He's been having a lot of fun going to the pool and playing with his cousins. When he talked to Richard last night, he started crying. He wanted us to come pick him up right then. Dad got him calmed down with the news that when we pick him up on Saturday we are also picking up cousin Conner as well. He'll be visiting for the next week. That seemed to cheer him up.

Well, I had some pictures I was going to post today, but they're on the other computer. If Richard can get it up and going when he gets home, I'll do it later tonight. Have a great day!