Mom heads back to work today from 8:15 until 5pm. She’s only working a couple of days a week as it costs as much to have someone stay with the boys as she makes. On top of that with me traveling a bit here and there, it’s difficult in the summertime to have her gone a bunch. She still brings in some much needed extra cash and the best thing is we still have our grocery discount which is worth about $400 a month to us. We’re frankly addicted to the “love card” as we call it and just love seeing our bill reduced by 20% every time we go shopping.
The boys have swimming again this morning and then Uncle T is taking them to Heritage Square. This is kind of an old west amusement park the boys love. I need to run out to the airport to pay a handling fee to British Air Cargo for 120 cases of wine I have flying in from Italy tomorrow. This will get delivered on Monday and then next week will be spent separating and shipping wine all over the Country. I had one of my employees call yesterday from San Francisco and tell me he had a great job offer from a french importer that he couldn’t refuse. I gave him his first supplier (wine importer) job and he’s a really good kid. I’m sorry to see him go but I’d never want to hold anyone back and this other company is really overpaying him so I gave him my blessing. This means I’ll be in California a couple of times (at least) in July. He is extremely loyal to me and is going to handle some pre-arranged events in July so I’m not left hanging. The one good thing is there’s a lot of qualified wine people in California so I’m sure I’ll find someone good pretty quick.
Tomorrow we have a swim meet that starts at 6am, again. It’s getting kind of old having something going EVERY morning at 6am. Now I like to get up early but it’s because I have some time to catch up on my things and go to the gym. Now it’s off to swimming practice or meets. Oh well, as long as the boys love it, I’m in. We also have a meet this Sunday so it’ll be no sleeping in until at least a week from Sunday. This weekend is also a famous Old West Show and Auction here in Denver. The highlight is a 2″ x 3″ print from the 1800’s that was shot on metal of Billy the Kid, that’s estimated to go for $400,000! We love going to this show and it’s only once a year so we’ll be headed there after the swim meet. They have everything from saddles to art to old pottery and just about anything else you can imagine that’s associated with the old west. Maybe I’ll see if Grandma wants to go as she’d enjoy it a lot.
Mom finally got in touch with her dad, Grandpa Bob yesterday. She’s been trying since fathers day but when she switched cell phones, her sim card dumped all her numbers. She has been trying to find his number by calling everyone she knew but couldn’t track it down. Grandma Dixie even tried but couldn’t come up with it, and she knows everyone! You see he’s been fishing up in Oregon and no one knew how to get in touch with him. Finally she reached him last night in Sacramento. It seems he had some kind of heart palpitations and went to the hospital. When she called, his “significant other/wife” said, “How come you didn’t call? “Your daddy needed you”. Now of course this didn’t make the misses feel any better and she’s been bummed out ever since fathers day when she wasn’t able to call him. I think the bigger question here is , why didn’t SHE or they call when they didn’t hear from HER? She has always called and they should have thought, maybe something’s wrong here, but no one surmised that possibility. Oh well, at least she reached him last night.
It’s now 6:15 and Mom’s getting the oldest one up for practice. I should shower while the little guys still asleep. I actually have a call in 15 minutes so time to get moving. We hope everyone has a good weekend and if there’s every any holiday and we don’t call you, CALL US!
Take care and God Bless,
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