Talk about a full house - my mom's best friend, Donna and her daughter, Clarice were visiting as well as my sons Jonathan and Matthew were home on Spring Break last week. Matthew, Annie, Clarice and myself went out to get gelato one evening and on the way home Annie spotted a downed stop sign sitting in the ditch... Clarice joked we should stop and pick it up, but we didn't.
Jonathan arrived sometime later that evening early morning... around 1:30am I awoke to some loud giggling. Since I had to work the next day, I got up to tell the kids to be a little more quiet... I walked in to find Jonathan, Matt and Zachary all giggling about their adventure of fetching the downed stop sign - they directed my attention to the back yard where perched against the fence was the sign, post and about 50 lbs of attached concrete. My initial thought was oh boy, this is not good, who is going to jail!!
Within hours of the stop signs arrival good things started to fall upon us: Matthew got a job offer post college graduation, Annie got her dream retail job, Jonathan made a connection with a production manager in Hollywood and got a lead to be a personal assistant to a famous director and William's cheer team won a National Title. I'm a little worried about what may come should anyone find out about my kids adventure - guess that is the parent in me, but for now we are all enjoying the luck of what has happened since the stop sign found its way into our backyard.
~G
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
4am wake up - another adventure of having your mom move in with you...
Saturday, my hubby and I started to tackle some outdoor projects, with the beautiful weather we were up by 9am and off to buy mulch and other stuff for the yard. We have a very shady section which grass struggles to grow. We opted to cover it in mulch and leave the rest of the back yard grass, hopefully, reducing muddy paw prints roaming the house!!!
By 9pm we had hauled and laid 60 bags of mulch. Needless to say hubby and I were both exhausted. After cleaning up we headed to bed in hopes of resting our achy bodies in the wonders of our tempurpedic mattress.
Then....
Just before 4am I was startled awake by what sounded like the heater in the attic getting ready to explode - I do wonder how my husband laid in bed those first few minutes oblivious to the noise, and me screaming somethings wrong, we have to get the kids and mom out of the house and where the hell is the cell phone we have to call 911. Yes, I admit I was a bit panicked, but I was just jolted awake. I ran out into the hallway toward the thermostat key pad, I turned it to off, I then ran downstairs to do the same with the other thermostat. Gil opened up the attic door and proceed up into the attic, but couldn't find anything wrong. I ran back upstairs and as I approached the kids bathroom said whatever it is it is coming from the ceiling above their bathroom, I woke up my son Zak while Gil ran outside in his underwear to check the air units on the side of the house I was going toward William's room to get him up and have Zak carry him out to the front yard, when Gil ran back upstairs saying he can't find anything wrong, he again started back up the attic steps and I walked into the hall bathroom. The noise was intense and fearing an explosion I didn't turn on the lights- I walked over to the tub and screamed for him to check the water tank the noise sounded like it was coming from the pipes. Just as I got the word pipes out, I saw it... jumping around the bottom of the tub, I bent over to pick up my mother's facial scrubber. Yes, her facial scrubber was vibrating across the tub floor making all that intense noise - that morning she went to use it and it didn't work, she thought the batteries were dead, thus never turning it off. What happened water had gotten into the unit and when it finally dried out it turned itself back on...
The first couple hours no laughing, we were tired, sore and now awake and unable to fall back asleep - move the clock forward a day, it isn't funny, it is down right hilarious!!
~G
By 9pm we had hauled and laid 60 bags of mulch. Needless to say hubby and I were both exhausted. After cleaning up we headed to bed in hopes of resting our achy bodies in the wonders of our tempurpedic mattress.
Then....
Just before 4am I was startled awake by what sounded like the heater in the attic getting ready to explode - I do wonder how my husband laid in bed those first few minutes oblivious to the noise, and me screaming somethings wrong, we have to get the kids and mom out of the house and where the hell is the cell phone we have to call 911. Yes, I admit I was a bit panicked, but I was just jolted awake. I ran out into the hallway toward the thermostat key pad, I turned it to off, I then ran downstairs to do the same with the other thermostat. Gil opened up the attic door and proceed up into the attic, but couldn't find anything wrong. I ran back upstairs and as I approached the kids bathroom said whatever it is it is coming from the ceiling above their bathroom, I woke up my son Zak while Gil ran outside in his underwear to check the air units on the side of the house I was going toward William's room to get him up and have Zak carry him out to the front yard, when Gil ran back upstairs saying he can't find anything wrong, he again started back up the attic steps and I walked into the hall bathroom. The noise was intense and fearing an explosion I didn't turn on the lights- I walked over to the tub and screamed for him to check the water tank the noise sounded like it was coming from the pipes. Just as I got the word pipes out, I saw it... jumping around the bottom of the tub, I bent over to pick up my mother's facial scrubber. Yes, her facial scrubber was vibrating across the tub floor making all that intense noise - that morning she went to use it and it didn't work, she thought the batteries were dead, thus never turning it off. What happened water had gotten into the unit and when it finally dried out it turned itself back on...
The first couple hours no laughing, we were tired, sore and now awake and unable to fall back asleep - move the clock forward a day, it isn't funny, it is down right hilarious!!
~G
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