All in all, a good weekend..........

I had a pretty good weekend.  I cleaned my house Saturday morning and made dinner for some family Saturday night.  My Mom and my oldest sister, Dennice, came up and we had Thomas' three sisters over, as well.  Two live here in town but the third was still visiting from Tennessee; she'd been up since their Dad died and she left for home today, so I wanted to have them all over at the same time.  Her husband had already gone back home and the other two husbands weren't able to make it.  So Thomas and Andrew were the only two males here!   We had a nice visit, though; lots of laughter and funny family stories.

I made a venison pot roast with carrots, new potatoes and baby onions (well, that goes without saying, doesn't it? how can you make a pot roast without those three things?!), homemade biscuits and steamed asparagus.  My Mom brought her famous, homemade (from scratch) chocolate layer cake that I hadn't had in years and is just melt-in-your-mouth delicious!!  I served that with vanilla ice cream.  Thomas had made some butternut squash pies earlier in the week (his specialty, and a recipe he learned from his dad, no less), so when I mentioned that we still had some squash pie if anyone would like some, my sister said, "You mean you haven't brought it out yet?!"  Everyone loves his squash pie.   Didn't exactly go with the rest of the menu, but who cared?

I had stayed up way too late on Friday night and had a busy day Saturday, cooking and cleaning, and even though everyone left around 9:00 it was still after 11 before I got to bed.  Then after our meeting this morning we went with some friends to Golden Corral, where I stuffed myself for the second day in a row.  When we got back home I could barely keep my eyes open to find my way to the bed.  Andrew had ridden to Golden Corral with two of his friends, Jamie and Joel, and after lunch he went with them to Jamie's house to play video games and later they went to Louisville to play lazer tag. 

Thomas lay down to nap the same time I did, and after he'd slept about a half hour we got a call inviting Eler Beth to go play with the daughters of some other friends of ours.  So Thomas said he'd take her (I really appreciated the invitation because she'd been moping around trying to decide what she wanted to do--with Andrew gone and it pouring down rain outside, her options seemed limited.)

These friends have a daughter a year younger that Eler Beth and a daughter (from his previous marriage) two years older, and the girls get along great.  They have a lot in common.  I've known them since Thomas and I got married, and he's known them since he was a teenager (and was a groomsman in the husband's first wedding).  So when they left I asked Thomas if he was coming back while Eler Beth played or if he was going to stay and "play" with Tony.  Hah!  That was just a rhetorical question, because when he and Tony get together they could talk fishing, boating or deer hunting for hours.

I slept the whole time they were gone.  They got home at 9:30 and I called Tony's wife and thanked her for letting Thomas and Eler Beth come over to play.  Andrew got home at 10, and now here I sit, wide awake!!  I just did some laundry and got things organized for tomorrow, and I really am just about to go back to bed.  Just thought I'd update real quick. 

Our weather here has been a little cooler than normal and it has rained for two days now.  I think it's going to say cool this week, which is fine with me, as long as it stays dry.  I'd like to be able to do some more planting and get my yard mowed again.

Well, I'm off to bed.  Hopefully I won't have any trouble getting up in the morning and I can get my body back on schedule!  Hope everyone has a nice week.