A couple of weeks ago we had a birthday party for Matt and Ryan. Matt's birthday was back in January but it is not easy to have a party in the winter. We had tried to pass off pizza with a couple of friends and a day of skiing on his actual birthday as his celebration which he seemed totally happy with at the time. Then a few weeks later he started asking "so ok when am I going to have my party?" I told him he already had. His class celebrated with mini cupcakes and we went skiing, remember? "No, my real party, like with friends and a jumpy house and a pokemon pinata". So we started talking about what it was he wanted. Now this drives Rob CRAZY. We have this habit of drawing out birthdays for weeks. The class party, celebrating on the actual bday, a party for local friends, a party for far away friends we may be visiting near a birthday. It is a tad bit crazy-making and overindulgent I admit. But...they are only kids once! Will we be doing this for the next 10 birthdays? No. But they are young now and this is fun.
So we waited for better weather and we rented a jumpy house, invited 10 friends (which ends up being 22 somehow) and had cake and Matt was as happy as could be.
And, to sweetin the deal, we combined Ryan's party with Matt's. Ryan thought it was way cool too. He thought all the kids were there for him when as a matter of fact only 2 were his age.
My littlest is 3 today. He still says he is a baby and I love that he loves being a baby. We did not have cake or even emphasize that it is his actual birthday because that would just be too confusing, right?!?
So see...I do not overindulge! And the moral of the story is avoid being the third born...the good stuff gets thin this far down the road.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Groupies and remodels
It's been a while and I must admit that I am thinking about not continuing to write here because I am just not committed nor creative enough and quite frankly this takes a lot of time that I just can't seem to find. I'd rather read your blogs than write my own:)
Time is being sucked up by our bathroom remodels at the moment. I've dreamed and planned about fixing up our upstairs bathrooms for years. 5+ years to be exact since the kitchen remodel. Well ok, the kitchen remodel was 6+ years ago, but it took a good year to get our life back in shape after that. Fixing up the house just messes with me on a deep level. Brings out the worst in me. The contractor is here at 8am. The water is off during the day and you can imagine what that means. Ohhh, and the domino effect of what needs repair: Old pipes are corroded so we decided to re-pipe everything with copper which means the drywall is pulled to the studs here and there. The sewer line is clogged and rotting away and needs to be replaced (you know, those trenches you see dug from the street through ones front lawn, yeah, never a good sign). Many of the heater ducts in the crawl space have come apart and as the heater guy put it "your crawl space is warmer than your house", words that make an eco-conscious mama shutter. The boy scouts need a backyard to have their meeting, sure come on over, just stay clear of the exposed wires and gas lines boys. Ooyy vee.
I am happy to say, and I think Rob agrees, that so far my behavior is far better this time than last though. But it is not over yet, honey.
Then I just got an eager call from my friend, we'll call her Groupie cause she averages 4 concerts/tour, telling me to go to BonJovi.com to watch the first 4 songs of the TX concert. And all is much better. Last month I went with Groupie to see him in concert. Makes me feel like a teenager again. Don't we all need that sometimes? No worries about the cost of copper pipes back in those days. We met up with some stranger friends that we had met at a previous concert 2 years ago at which time we promised to meet at his next tour. Yes, we are in our 30's, what's your point? PA Groupie 1 and 2, and MN Groupie 1 and 2. Sooo much fun! I love making connections with people like that. It is kind of what keeps me here too, reading and writing, the coutrywide connection is really cool isn't it?
Time is being sucked up by our bathroom remodels at the moment. I've dreamed and planned about fixing up our upstairs bathrooms for years. 5+ years to be exact since the kitchen remodel. Well ok, the kitchen remodel was 6+ years ago, but it took a good year to get our life back in shape after that. Fixing up the house just messes with me on a deep level. Brings out the worst in me. The contractor is here at 8am. The water is off during the day and you can imagine what that means. Ohhh, and the domino effect of what needs repair: Old pipes are corroded so we decided to re-pipe everything with copper which means the drywall is pulled to the studs here and there. The sewer line is clogged and rotting away and needs to be replaced (you know, those trenches you see dug from the street through ones front lawn, yeah, never a good sign). Many of the heater ducts in the crawl space have come apart and as the heater guy put it "your crawl space is warmer than your house", words that make an eco-conscious mama shutter. The boy scouts need a backyard to have their meeting, sure come on over, just stay clear of the exposed wires and gas lines boys. Ooyy vee.
I am happy to say, and I think Rob agrees, that so far my behavior is far better this time than last though. But it is not over yet, honey.
Then I just got an eager call from my friend, we'll call her Groupie cause she averages 4 concerts/tour, telling me to go to BonJovi.com to watch the first 4 songs of the TX concert. And all is much better. Last month I went with Groupie to see him in concert. Makes me feel like a teenager again. Don't we all need that sometimes? No worries about the cost of copper pipes back in those days. We met up with some stranger friends that we had met at a previous concert 2 years ago at which time we promised to meet at his next tour. Yes, we are in our 30's, what's your point? PA Groupie 1 and 2, and MN Groupie 1 and 2. Sooo much fun! I love making connections with people like that. It is kind of what keeps me here too, reading and writing, the coutrywide connection is really cool isn't it?
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