What a Weekend?

We had a crazy weekend, but it was all good.

Friday night I went to bunco in my neighborhood and thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of my neighbors paid me the greatest compliment and really, I was just so flattered. They said that if anyone in the neighborhood was to have more kids, it should be me because I'm like "Mother Earth" and just handle being a Mom well and in stride. I don't know about the "Mother Earth" notion, but having other women say that I'm doing a good job is really the epitome of compliments and I guess it could be compared to a peer review at a job. It's one thing when your husband or family says that you're doing a good job, but to have other women, other Moms, say that you're doing well, it's really beyond flippin fantastic. It just felt great. So, thank you to those Moms - you made my weekend.

Saturday we participated in the subdivision garage sale and did well - got rid of a lot of STUFF. The girls had ball games at the same time that Grandpa VH and Grandma H helped me with. That afternoon, we hosted Mother's Day for my Mom and BBQ'd with my brothers and parents. It was really a lot of fun and relaxing. We kicked off the celebration of Lydia's birthday too.

We played Mexican Train dominos - so much fun! Really...I liked it too much. I think it just felt good to do something adult and normal instead of half assed paying attention to something while simultaneously listening or juggling children. I had fun!

Sunday was Lydia's real 4th birthday (which is still hard for me to believe), and Mother's Day. We hosted Carl's Mom and family for brunch which was yummy!

Lydia got a big girl bike for her birthday and loved it. It seems like just recently she has grown up so much and isn't my squishy little toddler anymore. She's a bony, lanky, kid and it stinks! She has definite opinions and sassiness oozing from every pore and spoken word, really! She's something else. I adore her though and really, I couldn't be prouder. Today was so awesome because I got to celebrate one of my kids' birthdays and Mother's day which I wouldn't have without them.

The kicker was we went out for dinner - Steak n Shake (fancy, I know!). The first disaster was Lydia dropped her water and the glass shattered under the table. Nobody came to help clean it up, so Quinn and she had to sit with their feet up out of the mess. Then the waitress comes and we tell her what happened - still no clean up. Then the food took so long to come that the twins were jumping out of their skin by the time we ate and William began to yell (loudly) to either pass the time, or just be a boy, or who knows!? It was pretty loud (we tried to shush him) and at a nearby table, two men were eating and the one looked at us and shook his head (like he's eating at Tony's). I just wanted to freakin' get up and give him a piece of my mind (but I didn't). I mean - really. At this point, we were actually getting ready to go and Will was unruly. His lack of ability to communicate with words leads him to effectively, if annoyingly, communicate by yelling and he was definitely saying, "I'm ready to leave".

What I would have said, had I the nerve, to the head shaker was, "Sir, I'm sorry we disturbed your meal. I can see that you're not sitting with your Mother or wife, so I'm sorry for your losses. I know that my son was being unruly, but he's not even 2 and we should have been out of here before you even sat down, but the service was slow and our meal took forever while they actually killed the cow out back that made our steak burgers. I just want you to know though, that while your ears were assaulted by my son's cries, my eyes were assaulted by the four inch butt crack hanging out of your pants that I tried to avoid looking at while I ate my Mother's Day dinner that my family was so kind to take me out for because as you can see, I have four beautiful children. Have a nice day. Oh, and by the way, it's my 4 year old's birthday and she had to look at your ass too!"

I need to work on my people skills...don't ya think?

Happy Mother's Day!