Sundays in my City

I had a very good weekend.

After the horrendous month I've had, that is saying A LOT.  And I'm incredibly grateful to have had such a great weekend.

Shelbie went out of town this weekend with my best friend Danielle's daughter Ashlee (who is Shelbie's best friend).  So I got a lot of one-on-one time with Elayna this weekend.

On Saturday, Elayna and I started out by going to Pioneer Days, a festival in a nearby town.  We met my son Tim there, and my niece, her husband, and their new baby.

There was yummy festival food, crafts, events, and a farmer's market.  I couldn't resist the polish sausage and homemade fudge.  Elayna may or may not have had ice cream for lunch.

Tim LOVES Hayleigh.  He's also kind of terrified of her.  

But we somehow sort of tricked him into holding and feeding her!

Elayna gave Hayleigh her first taste of ice cream.

Hayleigh LOVES ice cream!!

I can't even describe how much I love this picture!

(Me, Hayleigh, & Elayna)

After the festival, we went to my best friend's son Dustin's birthday party.  Tim came along as well.  Her family is my second family, so it was really nice to spend time with all of them. 

Saturday night and Sunday was mostly spent just hanging out.  It was very relaxed but enjoyable.  

Just exactly what I needed!  

Hope y'all had a great weekend.

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You know it's been a rough month when....

This month has sucked with suckiest of suckiness.

 You know it's been a rough month when....

 ...the sound of the phone ringing makes you nauseous, thinking "Ugh, NOW what??".

 ...your ultimate fantasy is curling up in the fetal position and having someone pat your hair and feed you chocolate.

 ...you tell someone that your friend has had an even worse month than you and he says, "How on earth is that even possible??"

 ...you have a nightmare about snakes in the grass and don't even need a dream interpretor to figure out exactly what it means.

 ...you wish TS Eliot were around so you could give him a High Five.

Bring on May....PLEASE!!!

It's Closing Time....

A girl walks into a bar.

She's there with her best friend and another friend.  When she goes to the bar, a very friendly drunken shitshow girl starts talking to her.  Drunk Chick decides the girl is her new BFF.  Alrighty then!  They do a Fireball shot together.  Yum!

Then the girl sees a Cute Guy.  They smile and say Hi, then the girl goes back to her table.  Of course, her new BFF, Drunk Chick, follows.  So the girl tells the Drunk Chick to tell the Cute Guy to come sit at their table.

And he does!

So the girl is trying to talk to the Cute Guy but the Drunk Chick is also hitting on the Cute Guy.  Finally, frustrated with the distraction, Cute Guy informs Drunk Chick that the Girl is actually his girlfriend.  They're getting married June 24th.  But they go to bars and pretend to be strangers occasionally, to keep the spice in their relationship.

The girl jumps right in and plays along, telling Drunk Chick that their wedding color is purple and the flowers are lillies.  And that she and Cute Guy have been together for two years.

"But how do you not get mad when girls like me hit on your man?" Drunk Chick inquires.

"I know he's always coming home with me," replies the girl.
"Of course I am...look at her, she's beautiful!" adds Cute Guy.

Drunk Chick totally believes every word of it. She said she KNEW Cute Guy & the girl had something special!  She put the wedding date on her phone calendar.  She plans to attend.

When the bar closed, the Cute Guy asked the Girl for her phone number.  "Of course!"  she said.  "How else can we finalize our wedding plans?"

Yep - it's a true story!