Ahhh, the joys of a full weekend that did not stress me out!!! Friday night was A's first Middle School dance. She does not have a boyfriend (thank goodness) so I convinced her to make plans w/ her girl friends to meet up and hang out together. I had been suckered into volunteering to work the concession stand that night so I ended up driving her and a friend to the dance. Imagine my surprise when we walked up to find over 100 kids standing in line at the door already. I cut to the front and went in to start my first middle school PTO assignment. The concession stand was the size of a decent sized walk in closet - way too small for the 10 mom's packed into like sardines. We all managed to survive the next two hours of screaming kids, sugar highs, bad math and exploding Cokes. I was sweating so much by the end of the first hour that I'm sure my naturally curly hair was quite a site to see and my guess is my makeup was sliding down my face. The kids seemed to have a ball and I caught up on all the good school gossip on the ride home with A and two of her friends.
Saturday was a full but productive day. I managed to clean the house and still arrive at my ScrapPink all day crop by 10:05. I got in one good hour of setup time and it was off to my 'annual' doctors appt. That went by quickly enough and it was back to cropping!! I left again at 4:15 to pick up the kids and go to church (no guilt over missing Mass for my favorite hobby - priceless). After church, it was back to my crop w/ my friends til we couldn't crop no more. It was a great day.
Sunday was also a great day because I managed to get laundry done, the house straightened, kids dressed and out the door in time to meet my BFF and her daughter for a late lunch. After that, the five of us went to our friend CC's house for a Scentsy party. I ordered way too much stuff but I love Scentsy and run my burners all the time. The Scentsy salesrep is a friend of mine so we got to catch up for awhile and I got to spend time w/ my other friends at the party. My kids were well behaved, nobody got hurt, nobody cried......I qualify that as a successful outing w/ kids!! We had to leave the party right at 5p to rush back to Southlake in time for our 6pm reservations at Copelands for my Mom's birthday dinner. That was the only downside of the night -the service was painfully slow and I'd talked everyone into going to this place. The manage apologized for the service but it was too little too late. I have a feeling we won't be back. Mom seemed to enjoy having us all together though and she loved her bday present from the kids (a Creative Memories printed and bound Book of Thanks for all she'd done for the kids all these years). I have been working on that thing for almost a year so it was nice to finally get it to print and to her for her birthday. She was thrilled.
The kids and I got home at 8p and I managed to get them cleaned and ready for bed, final homework finished by A, bedtime by 9:30 for both of them and some quiet downtime for me so I could quietly read more of my vampire book. Hubby left for New Orleans Sunday morning so my ability to do all this alone yesterday is quite an accomplishment in my book. He does so much to keep the kids on a routine and I usually fail miserably when it's up to me to be in charge so it's nice when I can pull it off successfully! I even managed to get everyone up and to school on time this morning all by myself. He's not back til Thursday night so we'll have to see if I can survive the next three mornings !! Could be a real test of my patience and mommy skills!
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