This is why I shouldn't watch the news...

We are FINALLY back to good weather so I might have to go find something to paint or build in the garage.  What would I do without a garage?  Become depressed and irrational, I'm sure.  And speaking of depressed, I seem to be no longer.  For now, at least.  Didn't even cry when my friend who always cries with me came over.  And I'm noticing small things that are improving, like being able to remember where I parked in the parking lot and being able to walk past the baby section of the store without getting teary-eyed (or worse: throwing something for baby into my cart and then remembering that I won't need it anymore and then getting teary-eyed).  None of that has happened for a whole week, despite the terrible out-of-season weather.

Kenny's funny for the day:  Today is his grandma's birthday.  After sending the kids off to school this morning and before he set off for work, I reminded him of this and told him to call her.  He picked up the phone, dialed the number, commented on how his grandparents have had the same phone number for as long as he can remember, then said, "Dang it!  It's busy!  That means I'm not the first to call her!"  For the next ten or so minutes, he redialed the number, said, "Still busy!", hung up the phone and redialed the number...

Somewhere in all of this redialing madness, Kenny said, "I feel like I'm trying to win something from the radio..." and then Grandma answered and Kenny blurted out, "Am I caller 10, Grandma?!"  She probably had no idea what he was talking about and maybe even thought Just my weirdo grandson talking about things that make no sense again...but I sure thought it was funny.

And as promised (though a day late, sorry), here is a photo of Mae's finished sewing project (well, and Mae, too, just in case you were wondering).  Introducing, Mae's...bear?  Dog?  Bunny?

As you can plainly see, she is very excited about it.  So excited that they wore matching outfits and she brought it to school with her.  I asked her what she plans to name it, hoping that would tip me off as to its classification and of course, she replied with, "I'll name him 'Friend'."  

And here's a picture of Kyler, hanging out the top of the sunroof in the parked Jeep, watching the girls practice softball and trying to pretend he wasn't interested in the least.  I love this boy.  Also, I am forcing him to get a haircut today.

And now, bring on the weekend.  Kenny is on call so we will be staying close to home again, but I'm really hoping I can talk the kids into taking me roller skating at some point as I have the sudden urge to go.  I love skating just as much as I did when I was a kid so I am very thankful that I have kids that 'make me' go.  It's one of those things that you just can't do without kids because then people will think you're a pedophile.  Or at least, that's what I think when I see other adults skating solo.  And I can see now that this makes me a total hypocrite as I often write about how non-judgmental I am, but when it comes to kids, I take no chances.  If I have even the slightest suspicion that somebody might be lingering around a place for dark reasons, I keep a very good eye on that person.  How did I get to this?  Oh yeah, I made the mistake of watching CNN news this morning.  Babies are being killed.  Children are being raped.  Innocent runners are being bombed.  I only want everybody in the world to be overwhelmingly happy, but instead we thrive on causing pain to each other.  Learn this, please (though I honestly hope that everybody that reads this already knows, but just in case...) bringing happiness to others in turn brings happiness to yourself.  Always.  Every time.  And it's not hard to do at all.  

It is obviously time to close the laptop.  I hope everybody has a beautiful weekend...I really, really do!