Busy Mother's Day Weekend

The last few days have been pretty memorable.

Wed was a super busy day that actually got slower when we got in the van and drove for 9 hours. The day started with Hubby getting up bright and early and driving into the city for his drug test for the new job, he had to be there at 8:00 am factor a 45 min drive and rush hour into that so he left as I was crawling out of bed. I stumbled out of bed, dressed myself and the kids, took Sonny Boy to preschool which was a zoo, due to a field trip ( to a petting zoo no less) and Igor to speech and group therapy. After Igor was through with therapy I stopped by Wally-World and picked up a couple of items and got home. Hubby was home by now and was busy cleaning as we had a showing on the house scheduled for that evening. I did a couple of quick chores, picked up Sonny Boy from school and came home and started packing and cleaning upstairs while Hubby fed the kids and cleaned and packed downstairs. While all this chaos was going on our realtor called and scheduled another showing for Friday which was good news as the house would be empty and clean anyway. Two hours later we managed to load up all the stuff we were taking north, a boat to put in storage at my Father-in-law's house, some ice fishing gear (won't be needing that in St. Louis) a cooler of snacks, a bag of snacks, the laptop to watch movies on in the van, coloring books, magazines and two suitcases of clothes. What we didn't pack was Hubby some underwear, or jackets for the boys or Hubby! Anyhow 9 hours later we arrived at Great-Grandma's house and fell into bed. The next am I went to K-mart and purchased Hubby some undies and to the Salvation Army to find a couple of jackets for the kids to make-do in for the week end. You would know my Sister-in-law was out of town and we couldn't just borrow from her, however I only spent $5 on both jackets anyway.

Thursday Igor spent the afternoon with his Grandma while Hubby, SonnyBoy and I went riding four wheelers with Grandpa. Hubby and I were on one machine while Sonny Boy and Grandpa were on the other. Grandpa's claim to fame with four wheeler riding is to run over sapling trees so all the grandkids think Grandpa is the greatest to four wheeler ride with even though his nickname is "Crash". Unfortunately Grandpa lived up to his moniker on this trip. Grandpa was easing through the top of a fallen down tree - really just barely moving when a branch snagged the throttle cable on the four wheeler and revved up the machine to full blast. The next thing we knew the four wheeler was up straight up and down, Sonny Boy and Grandpa are on the ground and the four wheeler is racing through the woods un-manned until it tilted on it's side and came to rest against a tree with the wheels spinning. Hubby and I could only gasp and run to pick the two of them up off the ground. Sonny Boy gained a pretty good case of road rash on his back, we think from the spinning tire and Grandpa had a small cut on his hand. The four wheeler had no damage and was easily righted with the winch on the machine that Hubby and I were riding. Sonny Boy was badly shaken and wouldn't ride back with Grandpa but faced his fears the next day and went riding with him, though he refused to ride on the wild four wheeler. Luckily no one was truly hurt but it was a scary moment. Funny how relieving it is to see your child stand up and cry after something like that.

After the wild adventure on the four wheeler the rest of weekend was pretty tame. Hubby went fishing with his cousin and caught some of the elusive walleye - honestly I was beginning to think he had made up those fish, he never brings them home. Sister-in-law returned from her Disney trip and the boys played with their cousins but only for one evening much to their chagrin. Sunday we packed up and drove home.

Traffic through the house has picked up on the house the last few days and we are hopeful of an offer soon. We had three showings on the house over the weekend, one person came and looked twice, one was his fourth trip and he brought a contractor for the roof (we think he's trying to find something wrong to give us a low-ball offer) and another was a one time walk through. We also had a showing this evening from an entirely new set of people. Hopefully one these will be the ones. We have being doing yard work non-stop the last week as suddenly everything has greened up and bloomed, I think that is helping the house have some more curb appeal than empty flowerbeds and brown grass.

Hubby has made arrangements with a blog buddy to stay at their place for a while till he gets his feet under him in St. Louis. Thank you M - you are wonderfully generous. Knowing he has a place to land when he gets there and gets adjusted takes a big load off of our shoulders. Hopefully it won't be long before I'll be joining him. Plans are taking shape though a lot of it is still wait and see.

As for adjustments - I'm doing better and only get sad when I think about the projects and plans I had for my flower beds and yard and regret that I can't be more reliable when asked for help from my civic group. Igor is bouncing around like Tigger and surprises us everyday with new words and actions, he really has a great personality. SonnyBoy is adjusting well and remarked today that he wasn't big enough to help mow and wanted to know where his scissors were so he could help me cut the grass when Hubby goes to St. Louis. Fortunately the Igor is young enough to not understand and Sonny Boy is old enough to understand that it's not forever. Hubby is all nerves and fighting a cold but I think is enjoying some downtime around the house and hanging out with the kids. I know he's dreading his new job, hot hangars, on his feet constantly, and the stress of learning the system at a new job is weighing heavily on his mind. I have confidence in him though he'll do great at his new job, he's the kind of guy who never meets a stranger and is very meticulous is his work.

Well I've rambled constantly here forever now, it's late and the monkeys will pounding on their cages early in the am wanting their bananas!