A Few Thoughts Before I Leave

Just trying to chill a minute. I always get nuts before trips because there is always one more thing I should have done.

We're headed to Dallas this weekend and it's not for the football game. I do believe that a large part of the population of this area will be missing this weekend. Would be a nice one to be home. :)

My apologies to all my blogging friends for my lack of reading and comments. We're throwing together a party for my ds--graduation--and everything kinda fell together but for an earlier weekend than I expected--as in next Sunday. So I was busy yesterday designing and printing postcard invitations, and making list upon list of what is needed, wanted, etc. I'm so glad he's satisfied with simple things. A room, some balloons, lots of friends and his pictures from traveling Europe. I'll get a cake and arrange for some music and voila--party! But even simple takes time. I can't tell you the time it took just to get the invitations centered on the postcard pages...You know how it goes....

The other interesting thing is that in the midst of my oldest getting his wheels together and on the road, going to college, having his pary, in the center of all this come the clear reminders that his younger brother is coming into his own. It's been interesting to watch. Up till now Son #2 always wanted to copy Son #1, which annoyed older brother to no end. But not anymore. All of the sudden my younger ds cares about what he's wearing (before he'd match paisley with plaid and not understand why his brother didn't want to be seen with him), and he's standing up for himself more. He's been pestering me for a couple months for a desk for his room, found one on sale one Friday when I didn't have time to put it together for him, so he did it himself. All by himself. It was amazing and he was on cloud nine for the entire weekend. All in all I'm ready. I love infants, babies & toddlers, but I'm just not so good with boys from 8 to 12. It was my least favorite stretch with both of them.

At any rate, there's the ramble. I'm off to Texas and I will see you bright and early--or fried and late--on Monday. :)