I'm going to work on writing on a more regular basis here. I think if I write it enough, it's a possibility, no?
Saturday the boys had their swim lesson. It was the last one in the session and was a makeup day since the one day there wasn't any power. It went well, Avery is doing really good at swimming and he can do it all on his own so he moves up to the next level when I sign them up again (which I have to do Wednesday.) Eli is doing really well too, Avery talks him into going (and swimming without the teacher there to help him) when maybe he shouldn't be because he's not that confident in his abilities yet but the teachers are really good so no worries there. After that, Eli had a melt down on the stairs because I didn't have their passes to let them play upstairs in the childwatch thing (my mom has them) so we were going to play in the adventure room that has a bunch of stuff and room for them to jump, climb, run, etc... That is what we usually do, but since there was a fit, we left. We had lunch and the plan was to go to the zoo, it was Earth Day and a free day.
We go to the zoo on Earth Day every year, we have for the past 5 years or something like that. But after waiting at the exit and on the road the zoo is on in traffic for like 40 minutes, a cop directed us down some side road and we couldn't even get near the zoo. Which was like a huge pain in the ass since we had now told the kids we were going to the zoo (I don't usually tell them where we are going, its a "surprise" until we get really close for the most part.) Instead we went to the Holden Arboretum since they were doing an Arbor Day weekend celebration and had activities and such to do. I actually bought a year pass because my mom keeps going on and on about how fantastic that place is and how good it would be to get out and walk on the trails and such. Plus they had $10 off memebership. And it's tax deductible. Which is a nice bonus. We went around a couple ponds they have, did a couple activities and then got some saplings they were giving out before walking back to the car. It wasn't bad but the kids are kind of whimpy and Eli kept complaining about his belly hurting which got annoying because when I inquired about it actually hurting he said no, it really didn't. I blame my niece for that, when she has some kind of task she needs to do that she doesn't want to- suddenly some body part is going to fall off and it's ridiculous. On the way back to my sister's house, we got some pizza and the kids literally cheered. That was funny.
Sunday we planned to go to the Penitentiary Glen since that was a free thing with activities too. The kids like going there because they have train rides that go pretty fast through the woods, but we weren't staying long enough to do that. They had some neat things going on in the buildings and the kids got to see some of the animals they had there they are helping. It really wasn't bad but the kids hadn't recovered fully from the day before so they were crabby and whiny about stuff (which is like SO aggravating to me.) We didn't stay there really long, on the way back I stopped and picked up the family portraits I paid for ALL the family on both sides to have done. They turned out great, I only got so many prints but then CDs with the waiver to have more printed later. My uncle made us a great sunday dinner- roast, potatoes, corn on the cobb, mushrooms and onions and rolls. I was so stuffed and it was so great.
Nothing else much happened yesterday except for a trip to Sam's Club to get some stuff for the house. I probably shouldn't be so annoyed about it but my mom had me get all kinds of stuff for the house and then when we were checking out she put up like just about everything we all use and had me pay for it and I spent over $100 and then she got just the stuff she only uses and spent $30. Like wtf? I'm basically the only one who buys groceries and I pay her rent. When I break it down, with the groceries, Eli's daycare, the storage unit and rent- I'm paying more to live with her then I was living on my own. It's really annoying. I make more money now so I don't qualify for government help (yey!) but literally I'm paying out more and more and I am spending more then I make each month. It's stupid. And my mom thinks I have all this money. I don't get it.
Ok, this is getting really long. I have a bunch of stuff I want to talk through but I am going to create different Books for that. Maybe I'll actually get around to doing all that soon. Maybe I wont. Either way, I hope everyone had a nice weekend.
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