My mom came down from Denton and stayed the night to help pass some time. She also came up with a brilliant scavenger hunt for the kids to do at a local park to help entertain them. They got a prize for each of the things they found. Below are the items they were to find and the prizes they received for doing so:
- Find a stick as long as your foot..... If they did this, they got a football!
- Find 5 different kinds of leaves.... If they did this, she gave them a deck of cards!
- Find a feather.... When they found their feathers they received little flying rocket things!
- Find a flower.... They got whoopie cushions! "Because they both have to do with smells"
- Find a rock shaped like a heart.... They got Hershey kisses
- Find a bug.... They were going to get gummy worms, but the older boys are not supposed to have them because of their braces. Instead, they got water guns! "Because when you shoot people, it bugs them"
- There was also a bonus. If you could find a cloud that looked like something and show her what it looked like to you, you got bubbles!
The boys also had to write their names on their bags. For writing their names they each got a notebook with their initial on it. It was so nice to have her here and to have her help entertaining the kiddos. After the scavenger hunt we had lunch at Double Dave's, saw How To Train Your Dragon at the dollar theater, and then went for ice cream at Baskin Robbins. I would have to say it was a successful day! My mommy is awesome.
Today my dad treated us to Chuck E Cheeses! My brother, Christon, and my step-mom, Judith, met us there also. It was so nice to give all the kids tokens and turn them loose! I had about a 2 hour break :o) It was wonderful to see them and spend some time with them as well as relax a little. Thanks Dad!!!!
Through all the fun we've had and all the ways the kids have driven me to madness, I've missed Jerry almost as if I were never going to see him again. I've enjoyed the little break from "real cooking", cleaning the house and doing the laundry, but not enough to want him to leave this long again. Jerry will get home tomorrow and it won't be a moment too soon. He won't actually be home until almost 10pm. It's as if they are just trying to piss me off!!! "You can have him back, but it'll be at the end of the day and just before you all pass out from the 2 hellacious weeks you've been through." If I ever meet the guy that books flights for Jerry's company, he'll wish he'd done things differently! That oughta scare him.
So here I sit procrastinating putting the kids to bed, tired and wishing tomorrow would hurry and get here and then the weekend would last forever, thinking about all that needs to be done before Jerry comes home, hoping I get to talk to him one more time before I go to bed..... and waiting impatiently.
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