I know, I know... It's been awhile since my last post. Things were going so smoothly and then all of a sudden, we got sooo busy. Skyler is back safe and sound from Mamaw and Papaw's house. She gave them absolute HELL while she was there. I thought my mom was going to have a serious breakdown while she was there. I just don't know what her problem is sometimes. I guess Skyler knows she can walk all over my parents and they will let her get away with murder or something. But when she gets home, it's back to the real world girlfriend. She knows mommy and daddy, "Don't play that game."
I think all in all, she just really missed us. She has her routine that she goes through at home and when we send her off to TN with my parents, that is thrown all to hell. She also enjoys going to school and seeing her friends, etc. and she is basically by herself at their house.
My parents came to NC yesterday for reasons I won't even begin to go into at the moment, and when we pulled up and she saw them sitting on our porch, she screamed, "Mommy, I don't WAAAAANT to go back to Mamaw and Papaw's house!!" I was like, "Skyler, you don't have to. They are just coming for a visit." She was all freaked out she was going back or something.
Tonight is her gymnastics class. She hasn't been in like 3 weeks because she was in TN, etc. so it will be good for her to get back into the swing of things.
Jonathan and I took our little weekend getaway to Boone weekend before last. It was wonderful. Three whole nights alone with no kids and no work and no ringing phones. Ah, it was heaven. Our cell phones didn't work in the mountains, so Jonathan couldn't even call work. It was great! We slept late, went to movies, went to the mountains, did some shopping, etc. It was a lot of fun. We really needed that alone time after everything we have been going through here lately.
We really had a good time. We basically just "chilled." We saw a couple of movies, The Longest Yard (which I highly recommend) and Monster-In-Law (which I do NOT recommend). I don't get Jonathan to the movies very often to see a so-called "chick flick" and I kind of hate I wasted my once every 5 years on Monster-In-Law. It basically blew. Normally I can sit throgh a Jennifer Lopez movie, but this one was not very good at all. The Longest Yard was awesome though.
It was pretty funny because at one point in the movie Adam Sandler says something like they usually play some crip/small (I can't remember the exact words he used) team like Appalachian State or something. It was a definite put down to Appie State, but we just happened to be sitting in the only movie theater in Boone (where Appalachian State is!). There were big boos and moans from the mostly 16 year old audience. I guess you had to be there.
We went to Grand*father Mountain, toured Blowing Rock, slept in every day, watched lots of DVDs, went to the movies, ate out, etc. It was a great break from the stresses of work and kids. We really needed it.
I have some pics from our trip, but I haven't downloaded them yet. I'll include them in a later post. I am so slack when it comes to downloading pictures from my digital camera. It's really easy, but I just seem to never have time to sit down and home and fool with it.
Mom and Bob met us on that Monday to bring Skyler back to us. She was so glad to see us. She made us promise her we would not send her back to mamaw and papaw's house. I kind of felt bad for mom and Bob. They treat her like gold, but I guess she is just in that stage where she wants her mommy and daddy and she doesn't like us messing up her "routine."
We met them at Tweetsie that morning. Thomas the Train was at Tweetsie that week, so Skyler got to see Sir Topham Hat and ride Thomas. She loved it. She was really good and we all had a great time.
It's hard to believe that summer is already here. We bought summer passes to a water park and we visited it for the first time last weekend. Chase had a blast splashing in the water. It was kind of funny because Little Man hardly ever sits still, but when I sat him in the water he was like, "Um, what the heck is this?" He wanted to sit on my lap until he got used to it and then he was all ready to go once he got used to it. Jonathan had a time keeping up with Skyler. She isn't afraid of any of the slides or anything this year, so he had to run around after her all afternoon. It was good for him, he got lots of exercise!
My parents are actually in town this week. We are having a "crisis" with my brother and we had to call them in to intervene. No drugs or anything like that. It's sad when you have to get involved with your 23 year old brother's life, but we really thought some things needed to be addressed. I won't even go into the details about it. But it has not been fun that's for sure.
Since they are leaving tomorrow to head back to TN we thought we would take advantage of having some babysitters and go out to dinner and a movie tonight. I know we had 4 whole days to ourselves a few weeks ago, but you've got to take advantage while you can!
I think we are going to go see Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I mean how hot are those two! Heck, I'm a woman and I think Angelina Jolie is hot. Not to mention how hot Brad is. Whew! It looks like a pretty good movie. I'll report on it later.
Don't you just hate it when you haven't updated your journal for awhile and then when you start typing you have so much to say, but you can't remember what you want to say. That just pisses me off.
One thing that happened the other day is I caught up with an old online pal. He is a pilot in the Reserves and I hadn't heard from him in years. It was great to catch up on him. He leads such an interesting life. He sent lods of pics of his travels over the last few months. How exciting would it be to be a pilot and fly all over the world?!?
Speaking of pilots, when I was 19 I actually applied to be an flight attendant. Jobs were really hard to come by in the 1980's and getting into the airline industry was even harder. I actually traveled to Atlanta, GA for some interviews. The first interview was a complete "cattle call." I mean LITERALLY. There were about 350 people for 17 jobs. They walked through the room and just said, yes and no to people based on their looks. That would NEVER fly in this day and age, but that's how they did it back then. It was like a 3 day process of tests, interviews, etc. I got down to the top 25, but didn't get one of the 17 positions. :-( Ah, how different my life may have been if I had gotten that job, eh?
Ok, so I have rambled on long enough about absolutely nothing. I'm going to try and start updating every day again or at least every other day if I can. Because this waiting several weeks just blows. I don't make any sense! Anyway, enough for now. Until we meet again...
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3 Comments:
I take advantage of a couple hours here and there with my folks when i can...my daughter had went thru a phase where all she wanted was her grandmother...but not lately..
God i need a vacation..oh its coming..august
Skyler's look are angelic - as you say - but she sounds like she's got a lot of what-you'd-call 'spunk' for a kid! Poor Mamaw and Papaw! I hope they had a sense of humour at her reaction when they came to visit - "I donlt want to go with them!" hahaha - kids are funny. Yes, it's all about routine - and keeping those boundaries firm. She knows what she can get away with with your parents (by the sounds of it), but she knows she can't with yourselves - good on you! tough love! lol. Glad she missed you - you must be doing something right, then...? hahahaa (just kidding!)
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONICA!!!!!
HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST EVER!!!
I hope you get to writing soon..miss hearing from ya.
take care
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