A no throw up day!! wohooo…and I was thinking the day was going so well…when after putting together a beef stew in the slow cooker for tomorrows meal and cleaning up the mess from that, I realized the kitchen sink wasnt draining, or rather it was leaking underneath and there was still water in the sink. blah.  Some times you do need a man around the house…or at least a woman who knows plumbing. I got the pipes apart and sprayed them out w/ the hose to make sure nothing was blocking them and thought the problem was fixed, if anything I’d gotten the sink drained that way.   So now the sink is drained but I’m not going to use the disposal and I”m going to keep a big bowl under the sink in case it leaks until someone, probably a man, takes a real look at the pipes. I was just happy I at least got the sink drained, and if anything dinner will be ready for tomorrow!
our neighbor’s husband started coaching tennis for the first time this year, and his wife, who I’m slowly becoming friends with, is having a hard time adjusting to him being home so late, since he’s a teacher he used to get home pretty early, and this comes right after him being home all day in the summer. I cant imagine how hard that adjustment much be, but then again if I had even a week w/ my hubby home all day I think the adjustment would be worth it! but anyway, I suggested last week that we swap picking up and taking the kids to school, so she takes her son and Caleb to school in the morning(she just has two kids, a 1 year old a 6 year old) and I pick her son and Caleb up in the afternoon. I also said that since dinner time is hard for her now, and she’s just cooking for the kids and herself, as am I this week, that I make a big meal for our families to share one night her hubby would be back late from tennis matches. So tomorrow night we’ll be sharing beef stew, a la crock pot of course. but I’ll make some bisquick biscuits too before they come so it wont all the prep wont be done tonight. she’s going to prepare a meal for us on Thursday. Dean was supposed to be flying home on Thursday evening so I was going to see if we could eat earlier w/ them, but today Dean’s work told him he wont be able to leave til after work on Friday.  So not sure when he’ll get in, but at least I wont be cooking on Thursday! 🙂
so despite a long sick night for myself, and a groggy morning, the day ended mostly okay, as far as the kids go. we had dinner on the deck out back, and caleb’s friend Ally joined us. afterward we sat on the front porch eating ice cream(I was trying to avoid cleaning the kitchen up again from a meal!)
Tomorrow morning we have preschool and the afternoon is free and we’ll have friends over for dinner. so lots to look forward to.
