Helloooo...Smoother Ride....Where Are You???

[SueS]

Good Sat. Evening.......Sun. morning to you across the pond!

It's been a very busy couple of days. My parents are in town. I got a HUGE suprise at work yesterday when my sister and oldest niece showed up. My 40th birthday is coming up on the 7th and they didn't want to take no for an answer to celebrate it. It was wonderful until my sister called me from the hotel this morning and told me that they had to leave to drive back home (5 hrs) because my youngest niece was in an accident and was in the hospital. Thank God she's going to be okay. She had minor injuries, but had to stay in the hospital again tonight due to a concusion.

I went to pick my mom up this morning to go shopping and my cousin & aunt answered the room door. Another suprise. My cousin's 35th is Monday, so we try to celebrate together when we can. They came in (live by my parents/sister) to shop and celebrate our b-days. The last and most wonderful suprise was when I showed up at dinner tonight and there sat my other female cousins, aunts and a dear friend of mine. There were 10 of us all together. We had so much fun. I truly didn't want to celebrate this year, but apparently my BIL had told my mom, just go ahead and plan it, she'll end up loving it. He was right!

H has been his typical up & down with me. He called me twice yesterday after work to ask what I was doing. Once asking me if I'd eaten. He was going to stop and pick something up for us. I offered to bring home the left over pizza we'd had at the hotel and he gladly accepted that. This morning when he left for work I told him I'd call him about dinner tonight. I hadn't known my mom's suprise plans, so I'd told H that he was welcome to join us. My thought was that H could spend time with D3 before she leaves with my parents. H declined my invitation this evening. I brought D3 home to change. He was a pissy smarta$$ with me. I told him about my cousin & aunt being here too. He asked me....."What, did you bring all of your family here to try an intervention"? WTF????? I told him that I had no idea any of them were coming and that he knows my cousin and I celebrate together when we can.

It appears he's out with his 20-something friends tonight. I'm ready for bed. D3 is leaving tomorrow for some time with my parents. I'm going to miss her like crazy....more than I've ever missed her before.

Oh, D3 told me Happy Birthday mama, I love you....several times tonight. Felt so good!!

SueS