Today I decided that I would ignore the huge pile of dishes on the counter, step over the sippy cup that I think had milk in it at one time, but it is now resembling cottage cheese. I will ignore the huge mound of dirty clothes, the clean ones that Blake decided to pull out of the hamper and decorate the living room with. I will put on hold the 500+ pictures I have left to edit from Prom this weekend, the reports for work I need to finish up and the dinner I need to get ready before the boys get home. I will just write!
This last month has been a whirlwind of stuff. Strep x3, ear infections, pink eye, a totaled car, ENT appointments, buying a new car, pictures, scary bad weather, a ridiculous amount of referrals and work related "stuff". This Mama was at the end of her rope. I needed a break! I needed to get out of the house away from my family! Don't get me wrong, I love them to pieces, but everyone knows, Mom needs some time too!
Beau was turkey hunting all weekend and I was lucky enough to be the photographer for Tekamah-Herman's prom. My sister came up and stayed with the boys. I didn't even know if I should go because of the "catastrophic" weather that was supposed to be headed our way. The plan was to go take pics, then go stay with my parents and SLEEP! Ah! The word even makes me smile! I was going to get one full nights sleep! I was going to get to sleep in! I NEEDED SLEEP! Yeah....Well that didn't happen. But what did was fantastic & so worth the minimal sleep I got!
Here is a little background. I grew up in Lawton, OK. I moved to Nebraska in 8th grade. 8th grade is a tough year for girls anyway, but being the "new girl" in a town where everyone has known each other since birth is TOUGH! I went from 500+ kids in my class to a class of 53. I didn't want to move at all. I hated it. I missed my friends. So much in fact my parents have the $400 phone bill for one month to prove it! Yes I was a cheerleader. I was in FBLA and FFA and Student Council. I wasn't popular. I didn't have a lot of good friends I could really count on. I had a few, and that was enough to get me through high school. I was lucky enough to spend Saturday night with one of them.
I talk to 3 girls from my high school. Angie, Jenny and Ladonna. At our 10 year reunion Angie and I got a chance to catch up. We realized our lives now were a lot alike (crazy busy with kids!). So we had been talking more on facebook. I called Angie and asked if she wanted to go have a drink when I got done Saturday night...Man I needed a drink. We decided that I'd just come out to her house and have some drinks there and sleep in her basement.
It was just what I needed! We had SOOOO much fun. I have not laughed that hard in years! You know the laugh that just won't stop and you are crying and your going to pee your pants (well, if you've had 3 or more kids you will). I could try to explain all the things we laughed at and try to reenact it for you. I tried to do it with Beau when I got home, and it just isn't that funny retelling it. Beau looked at me like crazy when I was telling him about her German Shepard and the mud in the bed. It took me a few times to get through the story without laughing like crazy. It was one of those, you had to be there nights!
But we did come to some conclusions.
*In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter if you were "popular" in high school or if you were Homecoming Queen. It doesn't matter how many friends you had then!
*Sitting for hours going through pictures of your kids IS fun!
*Facebook stalking other old classmates just goes to show that we are HAPPY where we are and are lucky we aren't them!
*Dogs and kids make mud, messes, poop, they drag random crap around your house, the destroy things...and that's ok.
*Old houses that have "character" are WAAAAYYYY better than any Hearthstone Home.
*Old Miluake and Crab ragoon mix out of the bowl is YUMMY
*Storms were way cooler when you didn't have to worry about your kids
*Some people look for funnels when the lightening strikes and lights up a night sky, while some people look for creepy guys standing in their yard.
*Heated tile floors are the best (and I am getting one of these eventually)
*German Shepard's can stretch the length of a King sized bed
*Kids are the most important things in our lives and we are happy we are attentive responsible parents (most of the time)
*We are pretty lucky to have 2 of the best guys in the world we call husbands
*Staying up till 4am not child related makes you exhausted the next day, but so totally worth it!
But the best, most important, valuable conclusions I came to was:
It's not WHAT you have in your life but WHO. It's about all those little moments you will never forget! Once again, I am so blessed and lucky to have people like Angie in my life :) Yep. I'm pretty happy with how things turned out!
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