Good Big Wib News

Maybe not very exciting for everyone else, but SUPER EXCITING for me: my in-laws took the three little kids home with them this last Monday and they're staying for this week of spring break. Here's the recap: Monday: Seth took Eric to his Gifted/Spring Break program, but after Grandma and Grandpa left with the children, I went to get him. After I ate a cup of ice cream and watched a show, that is. Anyway, we stopped on our way home for lunch from Good Times, then came home and ate it in front of X-Men. Then we had a LATE dinner of super-delicioso baked lemon-chicken and brown basmati rice, just sitting down to eat as Seth walked in at 8: something. Tuesday: I took Eric to his "class" then stopped to borrow the wet/dry vac from my Bro-in-law at Baskin Robbins. Seems our water heater overflowed in the night but the floor drain was good-n-clogged. Then when I picked up Eric we stopped at Baskin Robbins again for ice cream treats. We also brought home the Super Plumbing Snake my bro keeps at the store for cleaning waffle cones out of his drains. That's still in the back of the van, though, since I can't lift it and Seth is home late every night. After our ice cream lunch, Eric went to play at his friend Trevor's and he stayed there while I went to the 6:30 meeting about saving our local library. It's going to be a pretty big deal, with a General Improvement District and PAC and everything. I finally picked Eric up just after 8, and when I got a little quesadillas-n-tomato soup dinner ready, Seth walked in, just in time. Wednesday: I dropped Eric at this class, then went straight to my endocrinologist appointment. Everything checks out, if you were curious. I picked up Eric and we went straight to Village Inn for lunch and Free Pie Wednesday. My lunch was the "VIB" with country potatoes, two egg omelet with cheese, strawberry crepe, and french toasts. It was SO DELICIOUS. And I finished the entire piece of triple-berry pie. We were full from lunch at dinner-time, but still followed through with our plan to get a Little Caesars hot'n ready and take it to Seth's office to have dinner with him. That was fun. Thursday: I dropped Eric and then went straight to the Temple. It's stake temple day, but I knew I wasn't going to make it for the evening sessions. It was going to have to be first thing or nothing. So that was good and I made it back in plenty of time to go to the potty before picking up Eric from his class. We sat around all afternoon, "partying," by which I mean we watched tv shows, drank soda, Eric played the computer, and after our lemon-chicken-alfredo dinner, we had brownie sundaes. Mostly I did a lot of knitting on the latest pair of socks I'm making. So that's my spring break so far. I realized yesterday, that I'm doing nearly as much driving around and as many errands as usual, but I don't have to buckle anyone in or tie any little shoes or change anyone's pants (besides my own, which at this point is certainly a chore). That's the main bonus for me: not getting tuckered out chasing little people around every second.