Busy.

I have a life. Sort of. And although it's not really poetry, I'd like to post about my weekend.

On Friday night, Joe's family drove up to spend the weekend with us. He and I snuck out of the house later the same night while the boys stayed home and drove their grandparents nuts.

We left without a plan, but ended up at a small bar located here on Main Street. There was a drunk guy sitting right inside the door. After listening to him wrestle with words that clearly were not coming out as he intended, we realized that he was there to check licenses. Amazingly, we both passed his examination. Joe ordered a couple of beers after we sat at the barstools. When an older man sat beside him, Joe looked over to acknowledge his presence. They shook hands and the man proceeded to announce that he was "in love" and that he was going to "get some food for his girl" so that she would "give him some love." Now, there's a guy that has it all figured out. Ha!!

We went home around midnight and to our utter amazement our two oldest (7 and 3) were still awake watching the "Land Before Time". So, I put them to bed and headed that way myself. The next morning they were up at 6:30 am. I don't know how. They just were. I got through the day without falling asleep in my food or laying down on the stuffed animals that were strewn all over the boy's bedroom floor.

Saturday night Joe and I went out again. Now, before you start thinking we go out all the time, I should say also that the only babysitters that we use are the grandparents. They come to visit about once a month. So, while they are here, we take full advantage (which they don't mind!).

Joe and I flew off to a 24 hour diner since it was late and ordered a bacon, swiss, mushroom burger with fries. It was one of those burgers that you eat and then the next morning you get up thinking about. It was REALLY good! Then we took a walk around main street. There were about 40 college age kids just milling about and the bus started coming around. We thought about hopping aboard just to see where the bus would take us but changed our minds after we realized that it was the "drunk bus" sent by the University to bring inebriated students back to their dorms. The plastic garbage bags taped to the backs of the seats gave it away.

We continued to walk until we arrived back at the car. Then we decided to drive over to Walmart for some birthday shopping. Our oldest had a birthday the next day. Normally we would have been carrying a list of things that our son mentioned an interest in. This year, though, he didn't know what he wanted. That means we spent a hour in Walmart looking for something we didn't know we were looking for. We ended up with a nice chess game (he loves chess) and a fun Spongebob "rock 'em sock 'em" type of game. The party was yesterday afternoon and it went off pretty well.

It was a fun weekend, although terribly exhausting!

How was your weekend?