A brief moment of serenity...

After a rather hectic four day weekend, the "real" week began yesterday. Brian went back to work and Meaghan returned to summer school. So it was just me and the boy for a few hours. Then my mother had mercy on me and came by in the afternoon and took the kids to swim at her pool.

I was alone for the first time in weeks!! My house was totally quiet and calm. There were no little rugrats screaming and arguing. When I cleaned up a mess - it stayed clean! It was an unexpected moment of serenity that I totally appreciated. Yea for grandmothers! :o)

I wish I could have just sat down on the couch and vegged out with a magazine or even stolen a quick nap - however, whenever the weekend rolls around, my house gets trashed! My family is just not aware of the mess they leave in their wake. There is only one me though - so I do what I can to make the place bareable while we are all home, but once they leave it is up to me to get the place back in order. I'm still unable to figure out how a family of four accumulates so much laundry, but the moutain left behind from this past weekend proves that we like to change clothes - A LOT! Anyhow, I couldn't justify wasting away the few hours I had alone doing nothing, so I cleaned like a maniac and then spent an hour online managing my group and other tasks. I managed to get quite a bit accomplished!

The weekend didn't go as planned. The poor weather kept changing our plans. Saturday we took the kids to Magic Mountain though and Brandon rode the go-karts all by himself for the first time. He did really well too. We all got soaked in the bumper boats! Fun was had by all and we wrapped it all up with a visit to Maggie Moos ice cream shop. Yum!

Monday we were supposed to go out to the Lake but it was raining very hard and lightening filled the skies, so we turned around. Of course, we found out later that the weather cleared up in time for the fireworks. Figures! We did drive out the next day, but my aunt & uncle were already packing up their camp site to come home. Just our luck! So no boating for me. :o( We caught the Dublin fireworks show late Tuesday, after it rained for nearly 2 hours straight.

I'm knee deep in laundry & ironing, so I'm going to make this a short one. I hope everyone had a nice holiday.