Success and a good weekend

Busy but good couple of weeks!!! Last weekend on Sunday we spent the day with Andy and Holliday and the kids. We celebrated birthdays at our favorite joint... Cheddars in Findlay. Then we went to the Findlay Mall where we watched Drewman play for a while and Aidan FINALLY gave in and went to sleep on gma's lap for a short nap.

They are so sweet when they sleep!!!

After Andy and Holliday left, Gma and I did a little shopping. I needed work clothes desparately! Found a couple of tops and one pair of pants. I am hoping to lose a bit before I buy any more pants... not too impressed with the size I have to buy.

This weekend was spent getting the house arranged and kid proofed because tomorrow Angela, Lomax and Hurricane Max arrive. I planned to put up a border in the newly painted bathroom but discovered I have to get some wallpaper paste before that can be accomplished. Here is the real success though... I finally fixed the hot water faucet in the upstairs bathroom!!!! Wooooohooooo!!! Now Gma can stop assking me every day if I want her to call a plumber to fix the darn thing :)

Yesterday was church of course. I was a little surprised that Scioto Ridge didn't really do anything special for Palm Sunday. We met Mark and Dianne, Aunt Rosie and Niki and the boys for lunch. It was a nice visit. Then I went to Kaye's to play Mario Kart and eat pizza. It was a fun day. In the middle of that, my back started hurting worse than it always does. Hopefully, they can give me something to make it better before Angela and Lomax and Max get here tomorrow... like a miracle drug!!

Guess I better sign off for now! More after the visit with the kids.

Had a good weekend. Spent time with Andy and Holliday and Drew and Aidan in Piqua. We met up with the cousins there.

I also ran into one of my cousins and have connected with her family on FB. It seems as though my cousin's kids are all doing well. They are in college or stable careers. Seems like they are raising healthy kids and doing pretty well. Mandy (my secret favorite) will be getting married this summer. She has already invited me to the wedding. I am looking forward to getting to know her kids and soon to be hubby. She has some lively kids. Jordan is 7, Lexi almost 6 and Sierra 10. Jenny has one kid and I'm sure he is lively too but a teenager so lively in different ways. Brian is in the AF and lives with his family in Montgomery, AL.

We spent the whole weekend with mom's cousins. They are struggling to make ends meet now that one is retired and the other on disability until retirement this summer. Hopefully, they will have the ability to make the tough decisions that face them and they will be able to make the changes that will allow them to live more comfortably in the future.

It was fun to spend time with the little guys this weekend. Drew was ... well... Drew. A bundle of energy and loving being the center of his world. Aidan is growing up at the speed of light. He is becoming more interactive and downright fun! It will be a good summer as one becomes mobile and the other becomes more independent.

Here is a pic. from the weekend. The others still have to be downloaded from my camera.

This Rest Area looked like a Gone with the Wind set!

The Citadel Chapel-- one inside and one outside.

The lower right is a submarine periscope at The Citadel

Hopefully, this saga is behind me

We went out this weekend and purchased a new dryer. Our old one was only purchased a couple of years ago by us but it was used before that and it wasn't used to the industrial sized abuse that we put the machine through. Poor thing lost it's timer several months ago so we have been having to use it only during times when we are home to watch that it doesn't get the clothes overdry and burned up! Anyway, I went to HHGregg and purchased a new one which was to be delivered yesterday. They called bright and early yesterday morning and said they would be there between 9 and noon. Well, we must have been first on the delivery list and they were sitting just around the corner waiting to hear that the call had been placed. It wasn't past 9 am when Gma called me at work and said they delivered the dryer but could not hook it up because we don't have the right plug... Of course, mostly she didn't understand what they were talking about so 3 phone calls and 45 minutes later, I received a phone call back from HHGregg customer service and they said they could not install it because we have a Range outlet and have to have specifically a Dryer outlet. So, I began doing some research and found out the difference has to do with relatively new building codes, etc. There are a couple of fixes so I started working on one of the fixes. In the mean time, I learned that the set up team had not taken the old dryer out of my house. So another two phone calls and I was able to schedule them to come and get the old dryer. So this morning, again before 9 am Gma calls me and says "Hi. I think I must have screwed up." I said "what?" She said they came to pick up the old dryer and she sent them away because she forgot the old dryer was still down there. Sooooooo.... back on the phone. This time it only took one phone call but three transferrs to get me hooked up with the delivery office. They paged the driver and they went back and picked up the dryer. I will probably only believe it when I see that it is missing from the basement. Tonight's project will be getting the dryer hooked up and making the appropriate changes to do that. It should be easier than the sink saga was (oh, we still don't have hot water there but that is a story for another time)! By this time tomorrow, I hope to have things back in order and a new dryer in working order!! Adam says the old dryer is gone now so I trust that he knows what he is talking about since the old one was just sitting a few feet from his bedroom door.

Gma funny for the week.

Here we go. We have gotten in the habit of going to the YMCA on weekends and dragging Grandma along whether she wants to go or not. Well, we were there on Saturday as usual after Special Olympics. Grandma sat down at the closest table so that she could keep an eye on where I was while I worked out (when I walk the track she can see me pass by). It wasn't 5 minutes after I started walking that I noticed an older gentleman sitting at the table with her. He was talking away and at first I couldn't decide whether he was talking to her or to someone sitting at the next table. However, the next table cleared out and soon they were sitting alone together. I finished working out and changed clothes and shoes and went to find her still sitting there sharing stories of military life with Pearl (as I soon found out was his name). When I walked up grandma says "I'd introduce you but I don't even know his name." He fixed that and went on to tell me it was nice to have someone to talk to while his wife worked out. So, not only is grandma picking up men a the YMCA but she is picking up married ones :) Teehee.