 Evan doing his numbers game:) He did so good! So proud of him:) |
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| This is why I always smile for pics....so I don't look like Jay Leno's daughter! Out at Yamato's Japanese Steakhouse for R's b'day dinner. |
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| Fixin' to play golf w/ a handsome 35 yr old:) |
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| Time for the batting cages:) |
Yesterday we had school and then I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning off and on, and getting his gifts together, etc. R came home a bit early to get ready for our date. I got a sitter for 5pm, so we could do dinner and Easy Street, which is a little arcade w/ go-carts etc. When he got home, I wheeled out the cooler, which I'd filled w/ all his gifts and he guessed he'd be going fishing. Took him a few to guess deep sea fishing and when I said yes his whole face changed!! He was truly surprised I'd done something like that for him and he looked so happy:) We lit the candles on his cake and the boys sang to him and were so excited. It was a really special time. The kids are so fun now that they understand everything more...course I'm sure they were prob'ly just as excited (okay, more excited) about eating the cake, but hey...i'll take what I can get:). The cake was really good, but it really barely tasted like root beer I thought...more like a rich choc cake w/ a twang. Still really good. And I really like the bundt cake idea...something fun about cutting it and eating a weird shaped piece of cake.
Anywho, Tori got here and we left the kids. I'd thrown some turkey meatloaf in the oven for them and me and R went to eat at Yamato's Japanese Steakhouse in Ocala. It was eh...but still fun. We'll prob'ly go to Tony's next time bc their sauces and ginger dressing are 10x better, but we had fun. It's always nice to get away and just be parents. After that we decided seeing a movie didn't sound so fun. Plus nothing good was on. (translation: The Lucky One wasn't playing yet;)) So we went over to Easy Street and played some mini golf. I was schooling him for awhile and then started to stink pretty bad. R always beats me at EVERYthing, and I'm the most competitive person in the world...so I got pretty ticked at myself and hit my ball as hard as I could and it flew across the grass into some thick bushes, never to be seen again...course it was getting pretty dark at this point. So he went and got me a new ball:) I calmed down and finished out fairly strong...and he STILL beat me by 2. UGH! ha. The go carts were being shut down for the night so we did the batting cages instead. That felt weird. I've not swung a bat in years. The place was so rundown, that it only gave me like 4 pitches and then wouldn't work anymore, so he had to go get the guy to fix it....so finally hit some balls and nailed a few(TWSS), and we went on our way. We stopped in at Dick's Sporting Goods on the way home and perused the aisles. Found lots of cool stuff I liked. Amazing how much the shoes have changed in the last year or so. They had a lot of minimalist Brooks and Nike's and I wanted to try them on so bad!!! But I just gazed. Then we stopped in at Walgreens and got some meds...Xtra strength Mucinex for myself, and a grow your own magic rock garden for the kids (50% off so $3.50! what a steal!). I came home and coughed up a lung and stayed up way too late reading The Lucky One, which i finished today--go me! It was excellent! He had a really great b'day I think, and I tried to make it fun. Still looking forward to a fun weekend away at the beach. We may stay an extra day, not sure yet. I hope so!
Decided to take a break from ole FB today. Not sure how long I'll do that, but I'm just sick of it right now. Sick of a lot of the stuff being posted, and more sick of how much time I sit thru-out my day and waste on that site, while my house is falling down around me. While cleaning yesterday I was getting more and more frustrated w/ myself and how I let it(fb) suck me in. I was doing so good for so long and really felt like my heart was in the right place and keeping up w/ my house and schooling. My attitude and patience levels were way better then. I can see how my attitude shifts when I don't have my heart where it needs to be. So, I'm gonna see how it goes and see what I can do about backing off and not letting it be an idol or time suck in my life. I miss the days of old (ha) when things were simpler, when ppl would pick up a phone to call you or come by to say hi. Seems like the only way I know anything is from seeing stuff on FB...gets really old to me. I've been trying to get back to good ole letter writing and I found I don't have much to say since it's already been blasted to FB and that irritates me that I'm that lame. ha. So, I just need to back off for awhile and rekindle the relationship I had w/ it back in February, where I wasn't hardly on. We'll see how it goes.
I've felt really off today. Not sure if it's bc of my womanly stuff or bc I've eaten junk the last 2 days w/ R's b'day. I put the boys down for a nap today after they wore themselves out in the swimming pool, and I layed down for 2 hrs myself. I didn't really sleep that well, but it was nice to rest and have my brain shut down for awhile. I was so tired reading them books in school today that I was nodding off. Ugh! We managed to have a really great day in school today despite my blah-zay mood, so I was thankful for that. I just got an email from a lady...R works w/ her husband and she's a homeschooler and in a big hs group in Ocala, so she's gonna send me emails regarding field trips and has invited us to a PE class held on Friday afternoons. I'm excited where it might lead:)! I've been so blah lately about school and just ready for summer, so I need something different. I think it's mostly bc I'm so alone and it gets tiring and boring to me after almost 8 months of it now. But I'm trying to finish well:) I'm just hoping to get together w/ a couple moms I know and look over their other curriculum and get s'more exciting ideas for next year;) God knows I need them!
Til next time, C
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