Skies were gloomy this morning, but with the sun shining behind our flag. The grey skies were followed up this evening with some rain mixed with snow! April snow? Crazy for sure.

So things have been hectic here. Dee just found out that her big job deadline has been bumped up about 2 weeks so we’ll not be seeing much of her for the next couple of weeks. That along with adding little Baby X and my parents being out of town, my life is basically going to bite for a couple of weeks. I’m going to try to stay sane, that’s the goal.

Wednesday I had to kill 6 hours in Silverdale after speech until the Foster Parent Dinner. That is some good times with 4 kids, ages 4, 3, 2 and 1. We went to Chuck E. Cheese for a bit, to the mall to play and we were all completely fried by the time dinner rolled around. Dee came and took all but Carlos (he wanted to stay with me) home and I finished up at the meeting.

Thursday was MNMs and I always look forward to that. It was truly sad, though, since Bev (the heart and soul of the group) announced that she’s leaving. I’ve known her for a long, long time and she has a great way about her that is grounding and inspiring and she’s one of the reasons I go. It was a great meeting, but sad, sad, sad. The boys got to go to a dinosaur play at BPA with Grammy Kathy (Alice’s grandma), Mary and Alice. Dee and I got a little break and went across the street to San Carlos for a quick drink with some MNMs moms. It’s MNMs (Mothers Nurturing Mothers) and every so often it’s MNMs (Mothers Nursing Margaritas).

Boys had aikido today then we took off to do some shopping. Still trying to get ideas for Levi and Carlos’ birthdays. Just for fun, I bought some cool glow in the dark planets and a glowing moon that goes through it’s phases. It’ll be a great night light in the boy’s room. Levi and Trey “helped” us put them up and were really interested in all the planets. It’s funny, even as grown adults Dee and I cracked up when we hung up the planet Uranus. We’re idiots, I know, but it was funny when I was 8 and it’s still gives me a chuckle today!

Carlos must not have been feeling good because he fell asleep on the car ride home, didn’t want to get up for dinner and went right back to bed. Shopping is tough work!

Gotta run…Carlos just stumbled out of the bedroom and he’s got a little fever going on. Poor little guy!