We had a fun day yesterday. Kari's family came for a visit and all the kids got a long! What was even better is our pca, Courtney, stayed the entire time and played with the kids so we could sit and talk. I have to say if it weren't for Courtney it wouldn't have been near as relaxing. I don't think we've ever had the opportunity to sit and talk several full sentences to each other before. Several times we found the husbands hiding out downstairs or outside somewhere and we didn't even get mad at them. I think they needed their own man time.
Look at the chocolate chip cheesecake Kari brought for desert. It was so good she could have sold slices for $5 a piece at a restaurant. I didn't eat any new food all day yesterday, which was hard to do since we had lots of fresh fruit. (I am still having to be careful what I am eating until I know how my system will react) I wanted my food yesterday to be her cheesecake! I forgot I am supposed to eat small amounts, because what I ate was anything but small. Then I finished off Andrew's piece that I found on the counter.
I think I just ate too much of a good thing. By bed time I was moaning and groaning (and it didn't have anything to do with hubby so get your minds out of the gutter). Lots of trips to the bathroom and eventually all is ok. I think I have to eat my bland canned fruit and steamed vegetables today. But there still is some cheesecake in the frig. and it's calling to me. I bet it will win me over. I just won't eat as much this time. Maybe.
The kids had fun jumping on our new trampoline with water from a sprinkler under it and sliding down a blow up water slide. I didn't get pictures of Bug and Ben, but they played quite a lot with KD the new hamster. They had her running all over Ben inside his shirt. Good thing he wore jeans and not shorts or I'm afraid of what they would have done next.
It's raining pretty hard here this 4th of July. Andrew is pacing and jumping around with his happy noise "When is the fireworks?" repeat. repeat. repeat. He doesn't like the noise of the fireworks so we just do a few here at home. Even with those he ends up watching from the kitchen window with me. BUT he has invited every kid he ran into on the sidewalk yesterday. That's what he is excited about.
I'm in a funk today. Having Kari's family over yesterday made me realize how much I miss the company of her family. They are just like our family and it's so nice to have someone like that around. Back to reality today. Maybe I'm just tired because Andrew got me up last night to help him fall asleep. It was sweltering in his room and he wouldn't let me open the window. I noticed he was up earlier with a glass of milk and I don't know how many cookies before getting me.
Nah, it's not tiredness. I miss my friend. 
3 comments:
It sounds like you had a fun day. The pictures are great! I wish we had a trampoline like that when my kids were little but my DH insisted they were dangerous and liable to cause all kinds of muscular-skeletal injuries. That's what having a lawyer for a husband gets you.
So, who helps you get back to sleep after Andrew wakes you up in the middle of the night? That's one thing the kids learned early: Do NOT wake mom up unless you're seriously ill. I need my sleep to function.
Been reading along for awhile (via Kari's blog). That water slide is AWESOME. We have the same one. It works wonders when a certain little guy's energy exceeds mine, which is most of the time.
OOOOwwwwweeee that cheesecake looks scrumptious.
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