June 11, 2008

• After yesterday’s muddy mess, I went to a drive through hamburger place for $1/burgers.  After eating (and me not speaking to my children), they took showers and washed their hair and went to bed.  I ended up with a headache (despite my attempt to NOT let the mud mess bother me).  Jesse came home and I told him the story as *I* was preparing to go to bed.  He just laughed and reminded me his sister (JoAnn, the one who was here a few weeks ago) used to eat mud.  He asked me, ‘”Didn’t you ever play in the mud when you were a little girl?”  Indignantly I replied, “NOT LIKE THAT!”  I might have made mud patties, but I never covered my feet to my knees in a mud pack!

  I slept well last night and had to force myself to wake up this morning.  I was having a dream that I was in a beauty pageant and had completely forgotten the words to my song for the talent portion of the pageant.  I was trying to write them on my hand, but my palm wasn’t big enough to hold all of the words.  It was a nightmare, rather than a dream!

  I’m speaking to my children again, and so, YES, I guess I still want more!!!

  I’ll start more of my pictures and stories of the Lori K’s visit.

  Here are some of the pitter-pattering little feet around our house this week-end.  Less than half of the total amount of feet, but many different kinds of feet, nonetheless!  Notice, NONE of them are muddy!  (OK Cherylyn, let’s not go there!)

   

  Jesse took us out to a Mexican Restaurant, owned by a freind of his, as a surprise treat.  All I had planned for dinner was chef salads where everyone could add what they wanted to their own salad.  I used fried chicken strips, instead of the usual cubed chicken, shrimp, or ham.

   

  We cleaned our plates after hogging a ton of food down us at the Mexican restaurant.

   

  We ate, and ate, and ate, and ate!  Everyone ordered something a little different and the free sides items (chips with bowls of cheese dip and hot sauce, a plate of nachoes, corn and flour tortillas, and a plate of fried jalapeno peppers) was a loss of money for the restaurant Saturday night, because we clean those up, too!

   

  Rachel (Lori’s next to the oldest daughter) really surprised me by ordering Fish Soup (contained shrimp and some other white fish)!  I kept telling (jokingly) Lori it was fish head soup and she kept telling me to hush!  Rachel said it was good, but the broth was a little spicey.  She asked for a “to go cup” to bring the remainder home.  Here is a picture of Rachel’s “fish head” soup.

   

  Then surprise to beat all surprises, a mariachi band showed up.  In the 92 million times we’ve eaten there, I bet we’ve only seen them twice!  So I will call this “The Last Supper – Complete with Mariachi Band.”

   

  They were very good (loud, but good) and went from table to table playing and singing.

   

   

  And the children and adults enjoyed them.

  

   

  Especially, Annamarie!  And, maybe not David, so much.  He kept covering his ears!!!

   

  Lori and I were in the same vehicle on the way back to our house.  We had a good laugh at this next photo.  Oh, the possibilities!  Suffice it to say, we were NOT stopped and forced to take a sobriety test; but, I DO think the two (can’t see the other squad car) were following us because of a city violation code about “eating too much.”

  

  We came home groaning from our full stomachs and having over eaten.  Yet, Rachel brought out the “fish head” soup and tried to finish it.  She was mortified when she spilled the soup on the formal dining room tablecloth and apologized a hundred times over.  I explained to her it wasn’t an expensive tablecloth (maybe $10) and that we could wash it.  I also told her to take off her t-shirt and I’d get the mascara and soup out of it.  I’m like Kelly Rippa from the Regis Philburn show – I can get a stain out of almost everything.  We ran the two pieces successfully through the washing machine and Rachel apologized again.   Poor girl!  But my miracle working stain removing technique had worked on the shirt AND and the tablecloth!

  That’s all the pictures for today.  I think I’ll try to do a Thursday Thirteen tomorrow and then finish up with the last of the pictures on Friday.

  Yesterday I went to Wal-Mart to finish shopping for Father’s Day and Stephanie’s b-day presents.   Last night I realized I had one pill left (the pill I take at night) and called the Wal-Mart pharmacy.  Surely I had called a refill in and had either forgotten to pick it up; or, I had done one of those clever things – like  put it somewhere in my house (you know? a *good* place so you won’t lose things????) and couldn’t find it.  Nope!  I had not called in a refill.  So, like it or not, I’m going back to Wal-Mart today to pick up a prescription. (sigh)  Such is life.

  I just talked with Stephanie.  After I pick her up from work tomorrow, she & JanaLyn will come here for her steak dinner (and the triple fudge b-day cake) and spend the night.  The next morning I can take her from here to work, saving me an extra trip the night after her b-day dinner, and just bring JanaLyn with me on Friday.

  Other than doing the never-ending laundry today and picking up that silly prescription at Wal-Mart, I have no other plans except to make all of the beds our guests slept in, as well as Annamarie and Luci’s bedding needing to be washed, since Luci had an “accident” last night.

  I may vacuum and run a Swiffer duster and go to the bank to deposit Jesse’s business checks.  Not a very exciting day, I’m afraid. 

  The girls will NOT be allowed outside, so that piece of my day is under control! LOL

   

   

   

   

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