3.5 Time Outs Tuesday – The Thankful One

1.
We went swimming at the home of some friends from church this afternoon.  They have 9 children, we still have just the seven.  When my 2 year old wanted to swim, the teenage girls let him jump off the side of the pool int their arms (repeatedly…really…a lot).  The girls never complained, and somehow managed to keep talking/goofing off the entire time he was with them in the pool.  I love big family kids!  #6 wasn’t an annoying little brother, he was just a fact of life……and a joyful one which they loved.

2.
The neighborhood crazy lady has decided that she doesn’t like me.  I’m a traitor to womankind….or something. (7 kids, no job, sponge off my husband, etc.) I can’t even begin to explain how awful she is to me.  The other women on our street have noticed and now when they see her moving in my direction, they run to intercept her.  They put themselves between crazy and me.  I’ve never been so cared for by people I barely know.  They’ve had enough of her bullying ways, and are staging a clever and subtle protest.

3.
My dear husband has been working insanely long hours for months now.  It’s been at least 6 since he was home early enough to have dinner with us, and it is rare that he gets in before the bedtime routines have started.  He kisses them goodbye in the morning as they wake up, and then barely sneaks one in before they go to sleep.  It is wearing him thin, and wearing me out.  So imagine my delight when he said that not only was he off for the entire week of the 4th of July, but that the office is actually closed so there won’t be anyone to call him!!!!   Be still my heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We get him all to ourselves without the blackberry buzzing or the laptop open to work stuff?  It’s like that star I wished on actually worked!  Here’s to spending time with the guy I fell in love with and hoping he can unwind by the end of the week.

3.5
Steak for dinner.  Homemade bread. Yum.