Middle America's Worldview

OK, obviously alot has gone on considering the fact I havent been blogging. Let's see, I finally got to sleep that night and up and atem Thursday morning for my plane trip. I actually arrived a bit early so I was able to get an early flight out of Philadelphia to Dallas. But I wasn't able to travel early from Dallas to home. It gave me a chance to eat lunch. While eating a Air Force guy and I chatted at the bar. It was an interesting conversation in regards to politics, ect.

I finally made it home around 4:30 p.m ( 5:30 p.m. est ). Back in my own time zone and family, I was glad. Even though I was home, I couldn't really stop and rest. My kids had a party to go to at 6 p.m. ( Yeah, 1.5 hours ). So I arrived home, put my clothes in the washer, gave my kiddo's and wife their 'surprises' from the trip and headed over to a Halloween Birthday party. We were there till nearly 8 p.m. My daughter was having a sleep-over there. But after 3 calls to us and 10 p.m. I went to go get her and brought her home. So by that time, I was half way awake again. Didn't get to sleep till late Thursday night.

Friday at work was freaking crazy. It was as if I never left there. I was on support all day and I never was able to stop. I was busy all day. I finally left around 4:30 p.m. to run 3 errands with the kids to be at a rented room in the park for my daughters Birthday party. She turned 7. We had rented a room, magician and had about 30 kids plus parents there. Thank God we had the rented room because we would never had pulled it off at our house. It went good and the kids really enjoyed it. The magician had at one point our daughter and then our son up on the stage. It was cool and I got it on tape. The magician, from Poteau, had a couple of pretty cool tricks, I have yet to figure out.

We got home nearly 9 p.m. on Friday night. Hauled the gifts in and crashed shortly after that.

Saturday morning, I ended up mowing our neighbors yard, and went to grab ( and hauled ) 6 bags of Arkansas white pebble for her front flower bed. They were 50 pound bags, so I got my excercise early in the morning. Since I mowed her yard, I went ahead and mowed our front as well. Why not right? Around noon, we went to my wifes parents house, because they were excited for us to see their kitchen. They had made a lot of work redoing it and it looked nice. They repainted the walls, finished the floor, and sandblasted, painted their cabinets. They also had a guy putting up a front porch for them that was about 26 foot long. Yeah, big porch. We stayed over there about 2 hours and then went to yet another party. This one was for 4-H. We left straight from her parents house in Shady Point to Cameron. I actually enjoyed this one, due to us cooking our weiners over a fire. I hadn't done that in years and enjoyed the conversation with another guy there. I managed to eat 4 hotdogs. LOL We also had a hay ride that night as well. It was fun. We arrived home around 8 p.m. and yes, was tired. Crashing nearly an hour later, as well as showers ect. sleep took us.

Sunday morning we hit the Church and enjoyed being back. With the exception of my poor wife. During all this she still is sick with a bad cold and can't breathe. We agreed not to do any running after Church and we stuck to it. Irregardless, her parents called more than once to have us over to eat out on their new porch. By this time it was completed. Nay, we said. By 2 p.m. we had already showered the kids and everyone was in there pajamas. We tried to relax this afternoon. Now, nearly 10 p.m. at night. I finally been able to just sit and talk with my wife on everything going on. Sigh. So now you know why I haven't blogged in a while. Tomorrow we get to start a new week over. great.