Sorry it's been so long without updates. I can't believe how busy my life has been lately. Good, but very busy.
The kids are all in school full-time. No more half-days. Yay! I remember being close to a nervous breakdown when I had to make 3 trips a day to the school for 3 different beginning and ending times. Needless to say, I couldn't hold down a job with such an insane schedule. There were times I would wake up almost in tears to think of starting the day all over again. I wasn't a woman, I was a mother, driver, cook, maid, scheduler, etc. I lost myself for awhile. Now 5 years later I am finding myself again.
My husband and I are still a team and we put our family first. Lately we have been discussing having another baby. I don't know how we would do it, but then again, I remember saying that with each child and it has always worked out just fine.
Sharon and Ethan have a new addition to their family. Lil Ethan was recently born, poor baby. Even though we want nothing more to do with them as friends, we still keep in touch for the sake of Sweet Pea. We are her godparents after all. We went to visit Sweet Pea shortly after the new baby was born. She just had her 3rd birthday and she is chatting up a storm. It was so much fun listening to her go on about her dresses and how she's a big sister now. She was super happy to see our kids and show them all the toys and goodies in her room. None of them seemed too curious about the baby and only gave him a passing glance as they walked in the door. He is a cutie pie with blond hair. He looks a lot like Sharon's older brother.
Ethan had been outside grilling hot dogs and burgers. They invited us to eat with them and we accepted the invitation. The visit was rather awkward and I was happy to pass the time with something other than Sharon's prying questions and Ethan's dumb one word answers to our questions. We walked into the kitchen and the patio door was wide open. It was a hot day and they said they wanted to get some kind of breeze going in the house. The front door was wide open too. There was a good breeze coming in. There was something else coming in, too. Flies. Dozens of flies everywhere. On the food. On the table. On the window. On the baby!
I wanted to slap the shit out of Sharon and ask her if she had finally lost her mind. Neither one of these disgusting people was concerned about the fact that flies were vomiting and walking on their food and on their kid. Ethan had the nerve to say "Oh, I see we have a few flies". Shiiiiiiiiiit! That's like saying John McCain has a few gray hairs! What a fuckin' understatement. Long story short, I grabbed paper plates and proceeded to cover all the exposed food. We quickly ate the patties and hot dogs that I had smuggled from the bottom of the pile of meat. I watched in horror as Sharon momentarily glanced at the baby in his car seat with flies on his face and then turned back to her plate of food. What the fuck is wrong with these people! THAT IS THE NASTIEST SHIT EVER!!
I couldn't take it anymore, so I assigned myself as guardian of Lil Ethan's face. I swiped at each fly that came close to landing on him. I probably looked like I was shadow boxing at the rate I was swinging. I looked behind me at the wide open patio door and wondered why they fly infestation wasn't enough to prompt them to close it. It was hot, but not that damn hot. Where I come from, flies are not welcomed in areas where food is present. I don't think the U.S. is a third world country. Even though Sarah Palin could certainly take us there. Damn she's stupid. Anyway, after a few minutes we all moved to the less infested living room where someone had the sense to close the front door. It was probably one of my kids. The longer we talked the more I remembered why I dumped Sharon as a friend. She asked a bunch of prying questions and cocked her head to one side in her usual way. She was analyzing us and our answers. Ethan was sitting next to her like a big turd. He said nothing unless he was spoken to. He was probably uncomfortable in the presence of a real man- a WORKING man. He's still working 2 part-time jobs and playing volleyball every weekend. Now that Sharon is on maternity leave until December, he can't get his freak on with the computer babes. So the real question is... how long can Ethan go until his next temper tantrum?