Jackie, KAW and Sue - thanks for stopping by on my birthday. Also thanks to you who just came by to read - you know who you are!

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Hope your w has something planned for you..like a night off of cooking and a week off of cleaning!!


Sue - ROFL! The only way that would happen is if W came down with an irreversible case of amnesia!

Anyway - last Friday went about the way I expected. W came home pretty late so the kids and I started on leftover spaghetti for dinner. W did show up as we were finishing but she really appreciated the plate I set aside for her. Got a nice personalized computer card from D (she used Microsoft Picture It to doctor up a photo W took and added her own text - pretty cool! ), another regular card which W actually signed , a cordless screwdriver with a bunch of attachments and a TCBY ice cream cake. I thanked everyone for the nice birthday - again, pretty much what I expected.

Saturday D got an invite from our next door neighbor to sleep over in their backyard. Our new neighbor is a DF with three kids (D11, S9 and D2) that stay with him every other week. He is marrying a nice woman in October up in PA where her family goes back over 300 years. Our D and his D get along very well so far so we gave the OK for it. But before the sleepover - W, the kids and I went to our German band kickoff party for the fall season. With the kids keeping busy, it gave W and I a lot of time to catch up with everyone. By the way W was smiling and ing jokes, she had a really good time - something that I haven't seen much of from her in a few years. After we got back from the party and got D situated next door for the evening, S and W promptly fell asleep!

Sunday was a pretty hectic day all the way around. Our dog got something in her eye that apparently got washed out on its own but she kept her eye shut. So I rushed her to the emergency pet clinic - fortunately no corneal abrasion or anything very serious. So even though it cost us about $100 for the visit and antibiotic eye drops, W thought I did the right thing. As it turns out, our next door neighbor needed to go there later to treat his cat for scratches that it received from their three dogs so W and I agreed to watch his two older kids. We went to see "Freaky Friday" - W and I sat on opposite ends of the group but I could see her laughing and enjoying the movie.

After the movie, we stopped by a bookstore because D had been pushing us to do so for a couple of weeks. While we were there, W and neighbor got into a conversation about camping. W made a rather pointed insult at me concerning a mistake that I had made a couple of years ago by bending one of the support poles for our new tent due to me misreading the instructions. I replied "Yes - you are right" in a very calm and neutral voice. W then decided to change the topic. We followed that up with a Mexican dinner and next door neighbor joined us. After that, his two older kids joined us in a sleepover in our family room. While the kids watched a movie very late in the evening, W and I stayed awake upstairs. W felt like watching something different on TV so I turned on the History Channel since something caught W's curiousity. It was a show called "The X-Y Factor" and it dealt with s&x during the WWII years. Something that I would not at all expect W to want to watch with me but she did for most of it before falling asleep.

Yesterday was another busy one. After we had a pancake breakfast and saying goodbye to the neighbor kids, we took our dog for a hike around a nearby lake. We also need to build up our walking legs for our trip to NY next month and it was worth it. Our dog went into the lake but did not venture out very far - she just wasn't sure what to do once she could not touch her paws on the bottom!

We also went for a late visit to the pool since it will be closing on Friday for the year followed by a chicken and green bean stirfry in peanut sauce. W raved about it - said that I did a very good job picking out the organic green beans for it.

But it is back to the routine this morning. After I took S to his speech class and daycare, I got back home and W was still here so we did have some time alone - talked about what her work schedule was and what we had planned for the weekend. In order to keep the conversation flowing, I asked if we were still going to plan on taking the dog to a charity dog wash on Saturday. W got a bit testy and replied "Didn't I mention that to you a few days ago?" I told W that I just wanted to make sure that we had the day right and I went inside to do some straightening up and check out a couple of job sites. W did come in a bit subdued and wanting to work on removing some mattes from behind our dog's ears. She needs my help to keep D restrained and occupied while she does this so it gave us at least an excuse for incidental touching.

Bob