Weekend Recap

Dear James, Daniel and Emily

So a good long (4 day) weekend. I took Thursday and Friday off as both boys had the days off from school and knowing that also meant Tammy's kids would be off I figured it was for the best. It turned out for the best in the long run, as Daniel managed to pick up an ear infection so there was some need for relaxing. Plus there was the stress of Halloween, then Dillon's birthday party, followed by Emily's birthday party, the 3 hurdles. And to top it off Kim's uncle Randy took a serious turn for the worse Sunday morning, which made Emily's party a more somber affair.

So we did the Halloween thing on Friday, which I already talked about some. I uploaded the pictures to the Picasa site. (quick sidebar, I upgraded to Picasa 3, I like it, a little easier interface, and the ability to add text to the photo's it fun) Saturday was pretty relaxed, just hung around the house until it was time to go to Dennis' house. Then it was off to the party, which was a nice little affair (Official Happy Birthday to Dillon BTW).

Sunday morning we were greeted with the news that Randy had gone from bad to worse, the results of the bone marrow biopsy came in, not good. So the attendance for Emily's party was down, and the mood amongst the adults was more somber than usual. But I think Emily had a good day, thanks again to everyone for all the wonderful clothes and presents.

So I managed to survive 3 whole days alone with the kids, more or less intact. And we managed to handle parent-teacher conferences, Halloween, 2 birthdays with everyone intact. So we are down to Kim's birthday this coming weekend, then Holidays. SO things should settle down a little, just in time for me to get some yard clean up work done.