Pixiemom

I read until about 10:30 last night. (Just for your information, I’m reading “Little Men” by Louisa May Alcott.)  After reading, I had a hard time getting to sleep.  After a while, I was sure I heard one of the girls crying and calling me as if she’d had a nightmare, either Noelle or AnnaBeth, so I got up.  I didn’t hear the crying once I sat up, but figured I’d check anyway.  Not a single child was awake.  I went from one room to the other about three times before I noticed that James was wiggling all about.  I know that wiggle… it means he has to go to the bathroom.  I woke him up and told him to go.  It didn’t take much to wake him, he was already almost awake.  If he was that close to being awake, he would have woken if one of the girls had cried.  I guess I’d finally fallen asleep and been dreaming, but I think it was a good thing I went up there anyway.

With Amie down in NC at my parents’ house, the kids all miss her, but they show it in different ways. James claims that he is always bored without his playmate and best friend. Christine misses her older roommate to talk to quietly at night for a little while before falling asleep. AnnaBeth and Noelle miss her reading books to them or dancing with them. And me. Well, I just miss my girl. Same for Jeremy.

A few of the kittens like to sit on our shoulders.  AnnaBeth said, “They like being a chip on my shoulder.”

I’m going to write some letters to my children in the next few days.  I’m going to print them off and put them in a special place to give them when they are older.  I’ll let you all read them.

On Saturday, the kids and I left at 7:30 am to travel to St. Louis for my niece, Naomi’s first birthday party.  It was a pool party, so we took the swim suits along.  They have three baby pools.  One which we left there when we moved away from St. Louis about 3 or so years ago.  Anyway, they had all three out.  The kids had a lot of fun.  The largest was filled most of the way and the other two had only a few inches of water in them for the little kids.  After the party, many of the adults and children went to a park to play.  I stayed at the house watching Naomi and Noelle, so they could get a good nap in.  I took advantage of the situation and got a little snooze in myself.  After dinner, we came back home.

Sunday was a regular Church day as in our schedule.  Sunday’s service was very patriotic.  The choir had a medley of songs, about 5 minutes of nonstop singing.  We never sang the national anthem, but the congregation stood up near the end anyway.

On Monday, Jeremy went into work in the morning… to golf with his co-workers.  Then the families joined around 10:30 or 11 am for a picnic and to go fishing.  James had a lot of fun playing with all the other boys.  For a bunch of boys, they were very well behaved.  After the picnic, some friends invited us over to their house.  We had a good time talking.

On Tuesday, I took the kids up to the parade.  There were rain sprinkles falling the whole time, but never any faster.  We were on a corner that didn’t get much candy thrown to it, but that made me happy.  I don’t let the kids have a lot anyway, so it was a relief not to have much to bring home.  After the parade and lunch, I made the kids take a nap so they could stay up a bit later to watch fireworks.  We went back to the friends’ house we were at the previous day for a barbecue.  They had other friends around for this as well.  James was the only one who went outside to watch the fireworks when they happened.  It was still sprinkling some and none of the rest of us wanted to get wet.  The adults all played games and I put the kids down in different places in the house to rest.  James never did fall asleep though.  We didn’t get home until about 1:00 am and he was so ready for sleep when we arrived home.

Anyway, that was our holiday weekend.  I hope yours was as enjoyable as ours was.