what i did today

That was a busy weekend. 

Shopping with J – check.  I managed not to buy a single thing somehow.

Craft show – not checked – I didn’t wake up until 10:30 Saturday and then had lunch with ILs and girls and then did some cursory cleaning.

Outing with youth – check.  That was awesome.  Mark Rodenhauser, former NFL player owns Cornerstone Ranch.  He owns 9 horses which we all got to ride.  His barns and sheds were decorated like an old main street.  He had tomahawk throwing, roping, sawing, campfires…just about anything.  He has a great sermon related to the relationship of a horse owner and horse being similar to the master/servant one we have with Christ.

Visited with J&J afterwards until after midnight – check.

Choir lunch – check.

Nap – check.  Wasn’t expecting this one, but happily obliged.

Cici’s Pizza last night with the youth – check.

Major drama with the youth and leaders afterwards – check.  I’m going to write more on this on a password protected post.

So now I feel like I need a weekend from my weekend.

No major plans for this week or weekend.  The girls are out of school today.  Scott will be gone Saturday to work the Clemson football game.  I’m guessing this week we’ll just be taking it easy.

Last night the girls and I went to a home party featuring Thirty-One gifts (This is NOT a sponsored post, so keep reading :)).  It’s a Christian based organization that sells monogrammed purses, bookbags, notecards, etc.  It’s really new to our area and I got a cute black and white cosmetic bag with my name in all lower case in lime green.  Should be cute.  I hadn’t planned on going but Scott was at work, Heather was at a friend’s and Mom was working so we were bored at home and so at the last minute–literally–I loaded them in the van and took them.  Turns out SIL and MIL were there and so were the children of the hosts so they had a great time and I had a nice time as well.

Today for lunch I met S at a local restaurant.  We had a great time and had so much to talk about we couldn’t hardly get it all out fast enough.  We hadn’t talked face to face in about 2 months.  It was a great visit and we decided we should do it more often since we both work at home and school is back in.

And now for tonight I just planned a shopping and movie trip with Mrs. J while Scott and Mr. J go to Scarowinds.  So if this is any start to my weekend, it should turn out great.

Tomorrow I may go to a craft show–where is it again, Jaynee?–and then tomorrow night we have an outing with the youth group.

Oh and Sunday we have a fundraiser dinner at the church.  And you notice I don’t have any cleaning on the schedule.  It was cleaned 4 days ago and I don’t plan to do much but straighten up. 

So yeah.  My weekend is going to be busy.  And hopefully good. 

Yesterday was the longest trip ever from Maryland to South Carolina.  We didn’t leave until almost 11 and didn’t get home until almost 9.  I think we stopped every 2 hours and even one at a pumpkin patch. 

And one stop almost ended in a hospital visit.

We’d been on the road for about 2 1/2 hours straight and Lexi started crying and trying to rub her stomach under her car seat strap.  She seemed to be itching or in pain.  I told Heather to undo part of her strap so she could get to it to see if she calmed down but she didn’t and even got worse.  I pulled over to a gas station right away and she seemed in pain. I asked her if her stomach hurt and she said yes.  I look at her tummy and saw that it looked bloated like on the right side and was hard as a rock.  She screamed in pain when I touched her.  I thought maybe she was constipated really bad and needed to get a laxative.  We got directions to a hospital and I strapped in with her in the back seat while Heather drove.  Lexi was calm as long as I was holding her and she was asleep within a minute on the road.  I decided if she was in that much pain she wouldn’t have been able to sleep so calmly so we decided to try to get home.  We were a good four or five hours away but Lexi takes really long naps and if she slept that long, I figured even if she was still in pain, at least we’d be closer to home.  Right after she went to sleep, she peed a lot.  Like the whole diaper front to back.  I felt on her belly and whatever hardness was there, it seemed to be gone.  We had stopped at that pumpkin patch and Lexi had fresh apple cider and an apple there and we’ve been curious in the past if she was allergic to apple juice.  My theory is she had to pee and then may have had gas on top of that causing the pain.  Anyway, she woke up 2 hours later or so and was perfectly fine.

In other news from yesterday we found out my grandmother’s cancer is not gone.  She had it in more places in her breasts so she has to have another surgery now and it was also in her lymphnodes so she has to have chemo as well.  We’re all disappointed. 

I came home last night to an extremely clean house and a newly built shelf hung above my tv that I had “ordered” from Scott and was made as a surprise.  I had all these plans to blog and watch my TIVO’d shows but it was so nice at home all I could do is just relax in my bed where I quickly went to sleep.  I hadn’t done that all weekend.  I guess the best vacation really is just being comfortable and relaxed at home.

The first day of vacation up here has been pretty relaxing.  We hung out at the house this morning with my hardest task being logging into work and entering my timesheets.  We went out and got our favorite steak subs for lunch and ate them here. 

Then we headed out for shopping.  Nothing extravagant.  Although I did find Coupon Mom’s book at a discount store for $1.99.  I plan to read some of that this evening.  Since we’ve been back from shopping, the girls are playing, I’ve been on the computer…you know, the normal Bennett household.  But it’s all fun computer stuff and not work computer stuff. 

I think we might go out and grab some take-out and finish the first day out at home.  Very, very relaxing so far.

I have nothing interesting to report for today except I sat in a car all day long and drove.  But the good, yet uninteresting, news is we made it without incident.