Post from Saturday:
I have joked about how strange I am but I am really beginning to believe that it is not a joke. Did my mother raise me on some alien book of etiquette?
We ended up with 8 out of the invited 10 girls last night...and one of them didn't spend the night becuz of some early morning commitment. It was a SLEEPOVER BIRTHDAY party. 4 of them didn't bring a sleeping bag, blanket, pillow...nada. AND only 3 of them brought a birthday present!
When my daughter is invited to a sleepover birthday party she takes a present and a sleeping bag and pillow! These parents just dropped their daughters off with a small carry bag with what in it? PJ's.
Luckily for them I have a large supply of extra pillows and blankets. They all picked a spot on the floor of the back family room and passed out.
As I sad...I must have been raised on alien 'rules'.
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She didn't want a cake...she wanted one of those really large chocolate chip cookies with the decoration. I make them myself...I am NOT paying some store $12 for a big cookie! And I can decorate with the best of them. Besides, this way my kids can get what they want on it for decoration and I don't have to order it way ahead of time.
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The noise level was phenomenal last night. My husband was in total shock! He could not believe that girls could be so unruly! I think he has been living with his head in the sand.
Post from Sunday night:
I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut. Yesterday I was being thankful that I was cleaning up after a teenage girl sleepover party instead of a hurricane. The whole thing came around and bit me in the butt today. We got it...Gustav blew thru here like, well, a 'tropical depression' today.
When I woke up, the skies were blue, the sun was shining and it was hot. By about 2 p.m. things were getting darker and the wind was getting stronger and I decided I'd better make a mad dash to the grocery store to get provisions for dinner. I took the next side street over that leads straight to the grocery store and it looked like a war zone! Limbs and trees down everywhere! It was like driving an obstacle course! Then, while in the grocery store, the power went out. I left.
My son was on his way home from Steven's and I was saying my prayers. He made it, by the way.
While I was in the florida room talking on the phone with my mother, I noticed the neighbors gathering on the sidewalk and pointing over our house. I said something to Troy and he went out to investigate. There was quite a huddle forming. He said it was nothing.
A few hours later he summoned me to look out the front door. The big tree in the front yard of the guy across the road was leaning...the roots were coming out of the ground. Troy said that he and Corkey had been discussing which way it was going to fall. Troy told Corkey it was going to fall across his driveway and hit his truck. Corkey said it would fall straight across the road and hit our garage. I grabbed my keys and told Troy we were going to move our cars out of the driveway and around the corner where there weren't any trees to fall on our vehicles. We no sooner parked them and got out, when the neighbors all reappeared from their homes just in time to see the tree go down. God was merciful. The tree laid down ever so nicely on the road...missed everyone's home and vehicles...even Derek's SUV still parked along side the road.
It looked like a block party out there! Everyone was laughing and some were even exchanging money...they had bet each other when/where the tree was going to land! [[EMOTICON:LOL1]] I ran in and grabbed my camera to get pictures and by the time I got outside, a city truck was already there surveying the thing and a crew showed up and cut the tree up and pushed it off the road! [[EMOTICON:SHOCK1]] Dang!
While everyone was gathered in front of our house watching the crew cut up Mr. Kyle's tree, the guys lamented that we were without cable, too, and couldn't watch football. I looked at them and said, "Oh...it came back on about 10 minutes ago!" [[EMOTICON:SHOCK2]] Suddenly, the group thinned out. [[EMOTICON:LOL1]] I guess when it comes to a choice between watching some guys using a chainsaw to cut up a tree and watching football... [[EMOTICON:GRIN2]]
Mr. Kyle's fallen tree
OH! AND BTW...Here's the birthday cookie!
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