Happy Memorial Day! Here I am at the computer all alone again! Amazing! Tom just got on a plane headed for Chicago for the week. He was off to Texas last week. He decided Texas needed more trees. Scott is over swimming at a neighbors and having dinner, and Allison is eating dinner with the girl across the street(who is moving soon). So here I am. I just got home from work-putting in extra hours for holiday pay(double time!). Tom was home with the kids today. He managed to finish cutting the lawn and spreading weed killer. I had started on Friday, but it was just too rainy to finish. I was supposed to be off getting my hair done, but the girl I usually see did not come in. Doesn't she know how badly that screwed up my schedule? Now I have to sneak over this coming Friday in between all the activities I have planned. I was also supposed to take my girl scouts horseback riding but it rained and stormed so it was canceled. Probably better since Allison stayed home sick on Friday with a very bad head cold(which she shared with me!). She did manage to get to her piano lesson. And I was able to register her for lessons next year. I really didn't feel like I got anything accomplished on Friday. I even sent Scott off by himself with the cub scouts for an after school meeting and then he went with the Troop to the Veterans cemetery to help place flags at each gravestone. We all usually go as a family to help out, but Tom was off in Texas and Allison was sick and she had to get to her piano lesson. I was very grateful that the cub scout leader was able to take Scott and drop him off after getting him some dinner. I was also busy washing clothes and packing for our weekend trip to Williamsburg/ Busch Gardens.
So we all haven't been home very much this weekend. We drove down to Williamsburg on Saturday morning and spent the rest of the day at Busch Gardens amusement park. They put on a wonderful fireworks tribute to the US soldiers in the evening. On Sunday we headed to the water park-it was packed. We spent most of our time floating around the rapid river since the lines were so long for the water rides. Tom mostly caught up on his sleep. We all were a bit worn out from colds too. So when the sky looked a bit threatening with afternoon tstorms, we headed over to the movie theatre and caught the new Shrek movie. It was fun. After our favorite chinese food buffet, we headed home. A lot to do in a short period of time. We did miss out on two invitations to pool parties and cook outs on Sunday, but at least this way we did not have to decide which house to visit!
I was still worn out over the weekend from my week alone with the kids. Both had projects and tests to work on so homework kept us busy. Allison had two field hockey games and I had to rush home from work after picking Scott up at school and get her over to the fields(all very far away). And it was very hot last week-up in the 90s. With all the passing tstorms it is impossible to keep the windows open so it was back to the AC for us. I also got Scott to his gymnastics class-he is winding down for the year. He and another boy were the only ones at class, so the instructor worked on backwards and forward flips. Scott loved it.
I also had some errands to run like picking up the kids medical reports for summer camp and dropping off forms for summer camp and returning clothes and shoes that didn't fit at the stores and picking up clothes and shoes that did fit(for the upcoming wedding).
And now both Allison and I are still in need of haircuts and of course I have already filled our upcoming weekend. Allison and I are going on a sailing and camping trip(after I take the girl scouts horseback riding!) And once again I will be home all by myself! I just hope Allison did not miss too much at school on Friday since it was such a long holiday weekend. With finals coming up, I would hate for her to blow her hard work all semester. She did get some of her projects worked on over the holiday weekend besides getting some rest and having a little fun. She even did a little more clothes shopping when Tom picked up his and Scott's suit. And she visited with a classmate and made really terrific chocolate chip cookies(which we all shared!)
So I will let you know how this week works out(more tstorms on the way).
By the way Mark S, you mentioned participating in the Relay for Life CAncer run at night with the luminary candles lit all around the track there in Indy. The volunteer work that our family completed and earned free tickets to Disney was making all those luminary bags that are placed around the track-one for each person stricken with cancer. We helped prepare several hundred bags in one morning's time. OUr race has not been held yet here in Howard County.
Also, Scott's and Tom's favorite cartoon is also Phineas and Ferb. Scott even has a few tshirts(we love the platypus spy!)
Hope you all had a wonderful Holiday weekend.