One for the Records

Yesterday, was one for the records....

I'm having some medical "issues", I'll update when I'm ready on that, and when I know everything. But for right now we start off yesterday by going down into town for blood tests, I get about 2 hours to work with between the time I drop off Oriana and head to town to the time I have to be back to pick her up. It is NOT much time! lol
So, here's how it went down.

7am - up and getting dressed
8am - yelling at kids to PLEASE hurry UP!
8:30am - drive down to town
9am - get lost finding the lab
9:30am - find lab, get tests done - the only part of the day that went smoothly!
10am - arrive at the tire place that Adrian was just at, getting it set up for me to just pull in and get the new tires put on.
10:45am - leave the tire place, go to the freeway to head to Costco for gas
11am - pulled over on the side of the freeway onramp, gas is GONE, car is NOT happy. I call the school to tell them no one will be there to pick up my daughter! :(
11:15 - still can't find my roadside service information, can't get in touch with Adrian, can't get in touch with ANYONE. Called the place where I bought my car and they have my cars extended warranty listed under some OTHER guys name! Officer arrives on the scene, she was about 3 1/2 feet tall. I found it amusing, I know, I shouldn't have, but I did. She puts a gallon of gas in my tank after insisting that I cancell the tow truck from my roadside assistance. It doesn't work. My car is sitting on too much of an incline and it's not going to start on just one gallon. She leaves. I call the tow truck again and Becca.
11:30 The kids school calls me to tell me that one of the teachers wives with a daughter in Oriana's preschool class would be glad to take her home until I can get there. The alternative is to have her sit in the office. I remembered the woman from meeting her before at school and decided to let her take her. Becca gets there with another gallon (the largest size of a gas can that they sold at the GAS STATION!) It still doesn't work.
11:45 the car battery dies from trying to start it. We girls jump it.
12:15 the tow truck arrives and they pull my car up onto the back of the tow truck until it's level, and put more gas in.
12:30 Car battery dies again - tow truck driver jumps it again
12:45 5 gallons of gas later, the car starts.
1:00 Becca and I are enjoying a margarita with lunch, finally some relief.
2:00-3:00 I go back to the tire store for the incredible shaking my steering wheel keeps doing since getting the tires that morning.
4:pm I'm finally on the road again and I have still not gotten everything done, but I was still on my way home. I had to have Ophelia ride the bus home with Becca's kids because I couldn't get her in time either.
4:30pm I start driving home and get pulled over. I get a speeding ticket, because I must have somewhere on my record "do not EVER let this woman off with a warning" since I've not ever gotten out of a ticket. My spedometer was wrong because of the tires, they are bigger than what we had so it through it all off....
5pm I finally get Oriana
5:15 I'm at home, changing my clothes and getting ready to go out again to get Ophelia, when I leave I back into a boulder in the driveway. Yay. I had only hit it with the tow hitch, so it's ok but man I was pissed.
7:30pm I'm finally home to do the massive loads of dishes, laundry and to make dinner for everyone. Yippee. No wonder I couldn't sleep!
ARGH!

NatchraLeigh SickLeigh

Definately sick. Definately tired and definately stuffy. I'm sick, and I am tired of being sick already. It's been a while since I had a cold like this, I think probably since my Dad passed and I was sick for months afterward... I feel like death on a stick.

Let's talk about something a little more positive, shall we?

Mothers Day

This year we went camping for Mothers Day, as we usually do. This time we drove to Roseburg overnight on Friday. We had planned on getting there Saturday early morning, napping for a few hours, then visiting a couple of friends before heading out to our camping spot. But my Father in Law had a different idea. It didn't matter that neither Adrian or I had slept since Thursday night, he wanted to head out NOW. So, no rest, no friends, no nothing but hooking/loading up and getting out of town! We were exhausted, but to argue with this man is like a death wish.

Friday afternoon we arrive at the campground with our in laws and the new (very old, but new to us) camp trailer that they gave to us for a very low price. We set up and Adrian and I thought we would nap, but again it wasn't in the cards and we didn't end up getting to sleep until about 9 or 10pm that night. Upon our arrival it was very chilly, overcast and slightly windy. It was cold that night but we had a great fire to keep us warm and a nice little heater inside of the trailer. I normally am a tent camping girl, I wouldn't buy a trailer to camp in because "that's just not REAL camping" but alas.... I'm a trailer camper now. Mainly because I can leave it packed, packing for camping is the worst part of the whole deal. It's the part that makes me dread it even though I LOVE LOVE LOVE to go camping. So now, I just leave the trailer packed, throw some clothes together and fresh foods (because canned goods and kitchen supplies are now stored in the trailer!) and I just hook up and go! I'm SO excited about how easy it all just became.

Oh... back on track to Mothers Day. On Mothers Day we awoke and I had to remind Adrian that it was MY DAY and so he needed to wake up with the kids and get a fire giong to keeep them warm. But at that point he jumped out of bed and went to work with the kids. Oriana crawled into bed with me and we laid there for a few minutes until the realization that our bladders were full and we had to get up and head to the restrooms. By that time, I'm up, no sleeping in at all. lol

So, we had fried potatoes & eggs for breakfast, YUM. I didn't have to cook, YAY again! I of course started my breakfast with roasted marshmallows. I hate to think of what is in those things, but I just can't see camping without them. After breakfast I tried fishing, gave up quickly and back to the camp fire for me. We ended up fishing for a bit and then having burgers for lunch. After lunch Adrians mom and I played a couple of games of cribbage, I think we ended in a tie. Then Adrian, the girls, his mom and I headed off on a little hike to find another fishing hole. We found a few good spots, and on the side of a curb on the paved bridge over the river we found a bat. A bat! It was sleeping upside down just stuck to the curb. It was the strangest thing, not a typical resting spot for a bat I didn't think!

When we got back to camp, or sometime during the day, I'm really not sure about the order of events at this point - lol, but I took a long nap in the trailer. I laid there and read in a magazine for a while first and drifted off for what seemed like 2 or 3 hourse... but I don't know how long it was. It felt great though!

That night all of the girls slept in the tent and Adrian and I sat at the table in the trailer and played cribbage for a while... well, until I was tired of losing anyway.

We drove back Monday, stopped in Burns for a late lunch break with a visit to the park to let everyone stretch their legs. It was such a cool old-school park that I can't believe I didn't take any pictures, we all had a lot of fun there. The play structures were unlike any I've seen before.

All in all - it was my best Mothers Day yet. I hope yours was equally wonderfull.