Ok, before I get on to the day, I had to laugh at my little sisters comment on yesterday’s post. Not sure if you saw it but she commented, “I always thought TGIF meant, thank god I’m female”, too funny, you always make me laugh Aunt Robi!
It’s about 5:15 am and we just got up as the littlest one has his first swim meet today at 6am! What kind of swim meet starts at 6am? We had no idea they started this early, thankfully it’s at our pool and not across town as some of them are. The misses will take him while I let the his older brother sleep for another hour or so and then we’ll join them. I have no idea how long it goes, hopefully not all morning.
Mom worked all day yesterday while I was mostly on the phone. I did take the boys out for lunch at the local mexican restaurant where they had a good time with fried ice cream and sopapillia’s for dessert. They somehow also wrangled a root beer float out of me later in the day as well. The house is spotless and so are the dogs, we’ll try to keep it that way at least for another day. You should see Mojo the malamute, he’s so pretty with all his undercoat blown out and his stark black and white color which shows after he has a bath. Lacey too looks all clean but she doesn’t really change color when she gets dirty while Mojo’s fur turns kind of a yellowish color.
Mom and I are both down about 8 pounds since we went on our diet of eggs, chicken, veggies and brown rice. I did cheat with mexican food yesterday but I think the biggest contributor to weight loss is no alcohol. Plus we just feel a whole lot better not drinking, especially when we get up early most mornings. Next week I’m in San Francisco Tuesday and Dallas on Friday, both are just day trips but we need to figure something out for Friday because Mom is scheduled to work that day.
On the news right now there’s a story saying that if you watch a lot of reality TV, it’ll actually make you dumber! Ya think, to me it’s pretty obvious, wonder how much they spent on that study. In fact I think ANY TV can make you dumber. We’re really trying to cut down and it seems to be really helping. We all get more exercise, sleep better, are less cranky and healthier. The misses just told me we have to pay about $300 today for swim team for both boys! I had no idea and probably would have thought about it harder as they’re both already signed up for summer football which too cost $300 but I guess it’s probably some of the best money we can spend. I’ll just need to cut back somewhere else, there goes chicken or steaks for father’s day, looks like we’ll have good old pb&j instead, wonder if I can grill them? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the swim suits they needed were also another $60! Oh well, it’s only money, lucky we don’t have more kids.
Time to go so I can take a shower, get the older boy up, and head over to the pool. Mom and the little guy are already gone. I have a call at 8:30 this morning (self employed) and Mom needs to leave for 30 minutes at 7:30 to give the little dog his shot. So, have a great day, give us a call to say hi and take care.