Just catching up

I never know how to start my blog.  When I was younger I wrote stories a lot, but I never knew how to start.  I always started a story with someone talking, every time.  I just couldn't figure out how to jump into a story.  I find that I have that same problem here.  One of the blogs I read (alongweighaway.blogspot.com) starts her blogs with "Well...here I am..." which I think is kinda cool to always start the same way.  

Anyway, Hi, how are you?  (I really wish I could use emoji's, that would have warranted an eye roll emoji).  =)  

So this last weekend was Father's Day.  We really didn't do much.  Damian gave Chris a hot tub for Father's Day, which now resides on our deck, which makes our deck much smaller.  It's an inflatable hot tub, so it's smaller than a regular one, but it still takes up space.  It took awhile to warm up the pool, at 8pm it was still only 80 degrees, and that is TOO cold!  Honestly, I'm kinda bummed that the hot tub has overtaken the pool, but seriously the weather went down from 90 degrees to 60ish.  That is a 30 degree drop, and very cold.  Way too cold to be in my 70 degree pool.  =(  According to my app it's not supposed to get warmer in the next 10 days, which makes me very, very sad.  

Anyway, (maybe I should start my blog with "Anyway," every time) yesterday was Maddox's birthday.  He's been counting down the days for awhile now, probably close to 3 months.  We didn't do anything special, I took him to McDonald's for breakfast and then he went to daycare for the day.  He played with his friend when we got home, I made him dinner of his choosing, he chose the easiest meal.  Seriously, egg noodles and eggs.  My mom used to make it occasionally, probably when we had no food, or she was being lazy.  All it is is cooking egg noodles, then putting them in a frying pan and scrambling eggs over them with salt and pepper, as an adult I added peas (gotta get the veggies in!)  So yesterday when I was thinking of cooking that I was trying to figure out how to "birthday it up" a little, so I added bacon and some pre-cooked shrimp and it turned out really, really good, but again, super easy.  Then he opened presents and played some more.  

I love how he's still wearing the "gear" and holding the gun from one of his gifts.  =)

I forgot to mention that he did a mile with me.  He asks me all the time, and I'm sooooo bad at remembering to tack on another half mile (the "longer" block) or mile (2 times around the "longer" block).  

I hate birthday parties.  I don't think I ever had one for Damian, and I know that Maddox has never had one.  I don't take my kids to birthday parties because I don't like to be stuck visiting with parents I don't know.  It's probably selfish, but oh well.  I did not go to parties growing up.  I had one in 2nd grade and that's it.  However, Maddox ended up with a little party last night.  He had a friend over, and his friend's sister joined us, and then Damian's girlfriend was there.  In my head it felt like a million kids (seriously only 3 kids and Damian's 21 year old gf).  When they left I felt so overwhelmed and drained I ended up in the hot tub.  It really was nice.  ; ) (My poor pool is so sad and lonely.)

This Friday would have been my parents' 50th anniversary.  I am so sad that my Mom is gone (I almost wrote "still gone").  I was really, really looking forward to saying that they had been married 50 years.  That doesn't happen any more.  Anyway, my dad is coming over the mountains for the weekend (staying with my sister).  We planned to do something on Friday to kinda get his mind off of it, so we are going to a Mariner's game (baseball), which I don't like baseball, but we'll have fun.  =)  Then they are all coming to my house on Saturday for dinner, kind of a birthday celebration for both Maddox and Chris (whose birthday is next Wednesday).  

Today is officially day 231 of my runstreak.  =)