Family BlissLogs

Weekends fly by way too fast don’t they? I know it’s only Saturday morning, but the thought that the weekend ends tomorrow is fairly depressing. I thought I’d post an update here for my 2 readers as to what me and the boys will be up to this weekend.

Last night was junk food and movie night. After I picked them up from camp, we came straight home for the festivities. They were already hungry so I let them start their appetizer of Dorito’s. While they were eating those, I warmed up the second course by microwaving some nacho cheese for some nachos. They were pretty hesitant to try it as they were afraid it would be too spicy. Luckily, I had the solution to that; dip the tortillas in some sour cream first then into the cheese. They seemed to really like that as we went through the first bowl of cheese in nothing flat. While bowl number 2 of the cheese was warming, I started the oven to get the pizza rolls going. We started to get full of the nachos right about the time the pizza rolls were done so we moved on to the 3rd course. I did mention that this was a movie night too right; well, we started off by finishing The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian; which we had started watching earlier in the week. After that movie was over, we watched Snow Buddies, which was more entertaining than I expected. After Snow buddies, they wanted to watch Twilight again. Somewhere in the middle of Snow Buddies, we moved on the the 4th and final course of ice cream. I figured they couldn’t possibly eat too much more so I gave each of them only 1 scoop. Boy was I wrong. They had that scoop gone before I got back to the couch with my bowl. The second bowl of ice cream started to take its toll on my stomach so I made that be the last course of dinner for the night. We made it about half way through Twilight before they got tired and were ready for bed. Maybe we will finish it tonight.

Todays plans are kind of a hodge podge. I need to mow the lawn so i hope to get that out of the way about 9:30am. I was ready a couple hours ago, but I’m sure the neighbors wouldn’t appreciate the lawn mower at 5am. Parker has been asking me to take him out to eat at Hooters for a week now, so today will probably be the day. I’ve got a list of things I need to pick up at WalMart, so we’ll swing by there after lunch. Parker and Casey still have some report card money burning a hole in their pocket, so a trip to Toys R Us may be in order for today as well. All that should fill up today, but if there is still time and the weather holds out, I may try to squeeze in a bike ride to the park. That reminds me, I still need to find a brake solution for Parker’s bike. There are no foot brakes and he’s not quite big/strong enough to properly use the hand brakes. I worry about him relying on putting his feet on the ground to slow down.

Tomorrow is the day I’m really looking forward to, but it is all dependent on there being no rain. I haven’t told the boys my plans for tomorrow yet in case the rain does come and we don’t get to go. The TT races are coming to Peoria this weekend and should be a blast. I’ve decided to not tell them the plan until we are pulling into the track and they see what is going on. I hope they like the surprise. They both enjoy watching the motorcycle races on TV. I just hope they don’t decide to participate in these races when they get older, I would be too worried that they would get injured. I’m really looking forward to this as I haven’t been to these races in about 10 years.

That should be a pretty full weekend, I hope we are able to do it all. I’m sure Monday will be here all too quickly.

The boys start a new Summer Day Camp tomorrow and have to start taking a lunch every day. We were making tomorrows lunch when I realized how pathetic my fridge looks. Keep in mind, I went grocery shopping today and it still looks this pathetic. In my defense, the boys are only with me tonight, Monday and Tuesday night this week. The bachelor-esqe look of my fridge prompted me to do a little re-organization of it’s contents. Here is my before picture (forgive me for the picture quality as my phone takes horrible pictures):

After we finished making their lunch and me moving stuff out of drawers and onto shelves, here is what it looks like now:

There is stuff on the top shelf in both pictures, the glare from the lights is just cloaking them. The top shelf has eggs, butter, olives and onion. I’m sure it will look like the before picture again in a couple days, but this realization may prompt me to get more refridgerated items during my next grocery excursion.

Normally, it would be a no brainer to pick between a noisy house or a quiet house. Most of you would pick the quiet house. I myself would have taken that option 4 months ago, but oh how times have changed. I’ve had the house to myself since Wednesday morning and the quietness was deafening. I spent a lot of time doing things around the house, but I didn’t realize how unhappy I was until I picked up my kids tonight. As soon as we got home, they both went off to play together. I didn’t join them, but I could hear them talking to each other and playing together. It was then that I realized that I was smiling for the first time all weekend. They went on playing and were running through the house; the racket they were making was therapeutic. It would have been the first time since Wednesday that I smiled, but I was able to see the boys Thursday and Friday. They had an awards ceremony at school on Thursday that I attended and Brandy brought them over Friday night so she could get more stuff from the house. I did smile both those times. Even now, the house is quiet; but I still have a smile on my face. I could walk upstairs at any point and just watch them sleep; which I may do a little later. So, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I would now pick a noisy house any time. Well, I’m rambling and I realize that I may not be making much sense in this post, so I think I will sign off.

Another update on my divorce proceedings coming soon.

So the last couple days have been pretty good with Parker and Casey. Last night we had a Cub Scout meeting where they got to earn their Science belt loop. One of the other parents is a 3rd grade teacher and her favorite subject is science. She led the scouts in performing an experiment. They learned how to lift another scout into the air using their breath. They got a long “Windbag” and lay it on the floor. Their partner then lay on it while they blew into it. Eventually, the had enough air in there that their partner was lifter off the ground. They thought it was pretty cool.

Tonight, the boys were in such a good mood that I just wanted play with them all night. Instead, after dinner we played with the windbags from last night then watched a movie. “Hotel for Dogs” was a very nice family movie. The boys couldn’t keep from laughing at the many personalities of all the dogs. Friday was kinda the leader of all the dogs. I think he was their favorite.

I might just sleep tonight with the vision of the smiles they had tonight running through my head.

Trying to come up with something to say about this clip, but it speaks for itself. . .

If you remember, Parker had a little trouble watching hockey on SportsCenter a while back. Well, he’s at it again. Last night, he and his brothers with up in Seth’s room watching a movie. (Or so we thought) A game of Hide-and-Seek broke out and yada yada yada . . .

Apparently, one of the twins weren’t watching where they were going and Parker’s cheek hit Casey’s head. Casey fell down from the contact, but Parker got the worse of it. This picture was taken after the swelling went down a little bit.

I was sitting on the couch, folding laundry, being a good husband when my cell phone starts vibrating, vibrating NOT ringing. I start pulling it out of my belt clip to answer it, immediately thinking that something was broken at work. Before I get a chance to look at the caller id, Parker comes running down the stairs shouting at me to answer my phone. My first thought was, “How did you know my phone was ringing?”.

Flashback 1 month:
I decided that my kids should know our phone number. But which number should I teach them? I decided that the number that had the best chance of getting answered and for us to keep for quite a while was my cell phone. So I spend a few days quizzing them on it until they have it memorized.

Flashback to yesterday:
I look at my phone for caller id and on the display is: “Home”. “What, home is calling me?”; I think to myself. Then I look at Parker’s mischievous face and put 1 and 1 together. I wonder up to the upstairs phone, which I find lying on my desk, waiting for me to answer. I hung up that phone and chased Parker throughout the house to tickle him till he learns his lesson.

We’ll see if he did or not.

This post was originally made on January 31 in my blogspot blog, but I’ve had a request to repost it in one of my current blogs, so here ya go.

My son had his first hockey injury a couple days ago. That’s the short story. If you want details, well. . . I was watching Sports Center the other morning. My son saw the highlights for hockey and got excited. He started running toward the tv and tripped about 2 feet away from the tv. As he went down, his mouth hit the tv. His tooth is still there, it is just pushed up into his gums. He cried a lot less than I would have if it happened to me.