Looks like I'm a weekly blogger now. I thought about updating during the week, but I don't think the MOM gets as much computer time as everyone else. Mark and the girls wore out the Oregon Trail (a computer game where you travel out west, making choice about supplies, conditions etc) all weekend. They traveled the trails many times in many conditions. Mark of course tries to score as many points as possible in the quickest time. Hannah just tries to get to Oregon alive. Abby ususally dies of starvation or drowns. She likes to hunt and uses a lot of bullets while her people starve. Kat does pretty well, but she doesn't trade or hunt, but moves on the trail. So funny. Jess of course spends a lot of computer time on Facebook, a social database with links to her friends from HU, Truman High School, Jeff City High School, etc. They can look at each other picture albums and leave messages. She can spends hours dinking around on it. It was really fun to see her new friends.
Jess was totally ready to get back to her college life yesterday. I was not ready for her to go. Just as it should be. I wouldn't want her to be sad about going back. She wouldn't want me to be HAPPY that she was leaving either. She worked 5 shifts, serving supper at the retirement center--good job. That will help her checkbook ALOT. Hopefully she can pick up some at Xmas time too. She is anticipating a visit from a new friend over the holiday. Mark is NOT taking this well at all. LOL. We always laughed that "the boys will come soon enough", but he's not laughing now. :)
We put up the tree this weekend. My husband is the most persistent, patient man I know. He sat for about 5 hours on Sat trying out bulbs, trying to get the lights working. We must have a "Lights Leprechaun" this year as 1/2 of each string was out. ARGH!!! Jess put on her ornaments before she left. The girls did theirs last night. I finished after they went to bed. It helps a Mom's energy level to do the lights one day and the rest of the tree the next. It also helps to send the kids to bed so I don't have to walk around 4 pair of legs and keep them from "helping" too much. Now to put each of the main rooms together. They all look like bombs went off after having everyone home for 5 days. Everytime I cleared off a space, someone would come along with a card game (Dora Uno--anyone), or a board game (Guess Who?) or a million Polly Pocket people, their outfits and friends. Hooray for back to school so I can reclaim the living room!! :)
Time to move on to laundry and stuff. Cold and gray here today. Tornadoes around KC last night. I heard they were in AR too last night. I'm assuming that my college girl got back in one piece, b/c the Highway Patrol didn't call. Argh! She'll call again, I'm sure of it. :) TTFN!
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It is so much fun to read your blogs. I think if I started a blog it would become known as the "Snooze-Blog" and the Blog Police would request I discontinue! I am honored that you mentioned me and my recent arm-reconstruction in your last blog. I'm having to go real slow on this comment otherwise it looks like thionwnsdts. Tell Mark I empathize about the boy stuff. I have one down and two more to go. What's nice at this point now is that now there's someone else to pay her way and worry about her, and he certainly does a good job of both, enough so that I don't have to anymore! Of course, getting past the wedding was a chore, but it's sort of like the stomach flu--it's a pain to endure at the time, but eventually it's over with and you feel a whole lot better (and lighter--especially in the checkbook). We did the Christmas tree this weekend, too. Well, Tam and the girls did. I just sat in the chair with my arm up in the air and said what a good job they all were doing. Funny thing about those lights, though. We had a bunch d.o.a., too. But, this was about the 4th year, so they were due to be replaced. Well, gotta hobble through a bank reconciliation, so I gotta go. Later and Merry Christmas.
I am LOL over the Oregon Trail expedition! Makes me want to pop ours in and escape the the Old West. But I'm stuck here in Potty World 2005 instead! Oh to move out of that someday!
Our tree is up too...finally--it only took 3 days, a prelit tree and six 100 light strands to get it lit...AAARRRGH!!!! I'll blog on this later! :o)
Glad to hear you've discovered the early morning hours...I found them earlier this year. But now--so did Lili. I'm not getting up any earlier--she meets me in the bathroom no matter what time it is! LOL!
I blogged, Ms. Police Lady--so check that out as you wish!
Happy day! JK
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