Impromptu
Today was an interesting day. It lasted 2 or 3 days to me.
Up at 5am with the boy, who got fed and slept until 8am. Up again, and we let Heidi sleep all she needed, which was 9:15 or so.
After she got up I snuck in an hour of work within 2 hours, which included fits of playing with and feeding Brandon. Heidi went back to bed, and she slept until 12:30, which she really needed.
Brandon by then needed a nap so I helped calm him down, and we occupied opposite couches, and he crashed until about 1:15.
Then suddenly the day started. I dragged Sean to go to the fireworks stand but I had a notion to get a rolling kid carrier for the bike. So we went to the sporting goods store and dropped a century and a half on one. It was pricy BUT still a good buy compared to pricier brands. No excuse now not to ride.
Next to the store for milk and hamburger for the neighborhood party.
Last to the fireworks store for more and bigger fireworks. Everything was 1/2 price so that was fun buying some bigger fountains.
The day was nearly 1/2 over!
We drug ourselves to the neighborhood party. We live in a neighborhood of 5 year old houses separated by some greenbelts between some areas. In one of them, where there is a small park, there was a modest party.
BBQs set up, gigantic inflatable bouncy things for the kids. One of the guys who set this up has a friend who owns a business, and he loaned them free of charge. Free food, donated by some nice neighbors! I asked where to donate some $ to help and they politely declined. Really nice folks.
Sean had a blast. I mean for a 10 year old, unlimited rides on the gigantic bouncy things, free snow cones and popcorn. Live was very good.
We adults parked our butts on the foldable chairs we bought and bs'd with each other for several hours while the kids played. We saw some familiar faces and met some new faces.
It was only 5:30 when we broke things up and our neighbors agreed to come by and light off fireworks with us.
We drove passed a cul-de-sac to make a U-turn, and we passed by another neighbor we knew, stopped, and rolled down the window. We invited them over for dinner, and fireworks.
So we have a few folks over, and then the sky gets gray. We turn on the local news, and we see 4 groups of storms all heading to one point -where we live. We are in denial for about a half hour, until the trees start going sideways, and we realize that fireworks tonight are a diminishing probability.
Sean took it all well. We have several cubic yards of fireworks to blow off, and I promised another time within a week (Fri or Sat probably).
After dinner and no fireworks the cul-de-sac neighbor invites us over for some real Korean BBQ. We accept, and during a lull in the storm, we sit on his porch and watch a real show of amateur pyrotechnicians light up the sky in our neighborhood, and in an adjacent one as well. All very nice.
But too soon the lights of the fireworks are replaced by the lights of lightning, and for the 3rd straight night more serious rain comes down. We park ourselves in his living room, and talk away the rest of the evening...
All in all an unexpected but thoroughly decent day...
Up at 5am with the boy, who got fed and slept until 8am. Up again, and we let Heidi sleep all she needed, which was 9:15 or so.
After she got up I snuck in an hour of work within 2 hours, which included fits of playing with and feeding Brandon. Heidi went back to bed, and she slept until 12:30, which she really needed.
Brandon by then needed a nap so I helped calm him down, and we occupied opposite couches, and he crashed until about 1:15.
Then suddenly the day started. I dragged Sean to go to the fireworks stand but I had a notion to get a rolling kid carrier for the bike. So we went to the sporting goods store and dropped a century and a half on one. It was pricy BUT still a good buy compared to pricier brands. No excuse now not to ride.
Next to the store for milk and hamburger for the neighborhood party.
Last to the fireworks store for more and bigger fireworks. Everything was 1/2 price so that was fun buying some bigger fountains.
The day was nearly 1/2 over!
We drug ourselves to the neighborhood party. We live in a neighborhood of 5 year old houses separated by some greenbelts between some areas. In one of them, where there is a small park, there was a modest party.
BBQs set up, gigantic inflatable bouncy things for the kids. One of the guys who set this up has a friend who owns a business, and he loaned them free of charge. Free food, donated by some nice neighbors! I asked where to donate some $ to help and they politely declined. Really nice folks.
Sean had a blast. I mean for a 10 year old, unlimited rides on the gigantic bouncy things, free snow cones and popcorn. Live was very good.
We adults parked our butts on the foldable chairs we bought and bs'd with each other for several hours while the kids played. We saw some familiar faces and met some new faces.
It was only 5:30 when we broke things up and our neighbors agreed to come by and light off fireworks with us.
We drove passed a cul-de-sac to make a U-turn, and we passed by another neighbor we knew, stopped, and rolled down the window. We invited them over for dinner, and fireworks.
So we have a few folks over, and then the sky gets gray. We turn on the local news, and we see 4 groups of storms all heading to one point -where we live. We are in denial for about a half hour, until the trees start going sideways, and we realize that fireworks tonight are a diminishing probability.
Sean took it all well. We have several cubic yards of fireworks to blow off, and I promised another time within a week (Fri or Sat probably).
After dinner and no fireworks the cul-de-sac neighbor invites us over for some real Korean BBQ. We accept, and during a lull in the storm, we sit on his porch and watch a real show of amateur pyrotechnicians light up the sky in our neighborhood, and in an adjacent one as well. All very nice.
But too soon the lights of the fireworks are replaced by the lights of lightning, and for the 3rd straight night more serious rain comes down. We park ourselves in his living room, and talk away the rest of the evening...
All in all an unexpected but thoroughly decent day...