Hi everyone....
Sorry that I was MIA this weekend - but here to report it was all for fun reasons!!
Friday night made spaghetti and meatballs - Alyssa and boyfriend made bread to go with it - we ate late then watched "Beerfest"....not exactly intellectually stimulating but good for a few laughs
and just the fact that we were watching it together works for me. Jeffrey let me sleep late on Saturday - then he and I - Alyssa and Chris had a family field trip to the car show
and out to dinner - it was really fun - we all picked our favorite cars - mien was the Dodge Charger - Jeffrey (who sat in several cars that were way to small for him) chose the Corvette - Alyssa chose the Ford Ranger Pickup and Chris....well let just say that he was dissapointed that there weren't enough "high-end cars" - but he did make up laugh by tuning the car radios to his IPOD then turning them off remotely when other people got in the cars!! haha. Man this kids knows everything about cars - we were looking at a concept car and he pulls out his IPOD and shows me a picture of the same car so I could see that the doors open at a vertical angle. Over all a very good day - came home and Alyssa had friends over and again all of us watched a movie....this time "Texas Chain Saw Massacre/The Beginning"
(insert here the fact that my kids know my NETFLIX password"...haha.
Yesterday Jeffrey and I worked - after work I went to Target and Starbucks (had a yummy white chocolate mocha frappachino)
with Alyssa and her girlfriend for supplies for her dorm. Jeffrey got home around 6:30 - we sat and talked for a while....Tara - he's definitely up for a trip to Norfolk in April !!
Again another movie...."Employee of the Month"....no comment....
Chris' recruiter is coming tonite to meet with the 3 of us - Jeffrey and I have decided that we are making this decision for him - and to save him....we both feel good about this. Have to say that we have really "tightened the reins" and even if Chris is just humoring us he is going alone with everything - home early - checking in - etc - all good.
Suzanne - to comment on your "friends" dilemma.....
we are mostly friends and hang out with Jeffrey's brothers and their wives ...we do have 1 set of good friends (my college roomate and husband) who are Alyssa's godparents -they are parents to 2 special needs kids - we don't see them as often as we'd like but kids are always welcome - I will say we were friendly for a time with one of Alyssa's girlfriends mom after her divorce - the girls were friends for years but we never socialized with the parents as a couple.....someday I will tell you about the trip the 6 of us took to WDW.....
lets just say the other mom wanted to run the show and I barely saw my husband and son all week - the girls friendship hit some rocky spots and ended about 2 years ago - the mom re-married and moved out of state. I agree with everyone - I think some parameters of a friendship can change if there are kids but ....a true friend is just that. (count me in as one of yours!).
OK - still in my jammies - gotta get moving.....
more later.
Sorry for the lame ketchup.....hugs all around.
*** when - good thing I previewed and saw Elaine's post before submitting..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA!!