Wanted everyone to see our new dog! Can you believe it?...he does have eyes...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
It comes in three's....right?
In the hopes that the old addage "Life comes at you in 3's..." we are hoping that our run of bad luck is over and things can start looking up again. Let me explain:
1. Friday night, Owen comes down with the flu...not a quick throw up and it is over flu, but a wretching all night and most of the next day flu. He overcomes it and is better by Sunday, all is well! ...Quinn gets on the bus Monday morning, right as rain. A phone call 1 1/2 hours later comes in letting me know she puked (not pucked) on the bus and I need to pick her up. Heaven help me! Of course mom and dad are gone and Chris and Kate are so busy "working" at sleeping that I can't get them to answer the phone. I end up having to call in to work and cancel out my afternoon (fortunately, that is all I was working anyway) so that I can take care of my sick baby (not that I mind in the least because my children come first, but it is fun for me recount these facts as certain people need a little bashing occasionally and it makes the story so much better!).
2. Monday continues with a trip to the basement to wash the puke clothes only to find that my washing machine is no longer on line! That is to say, the GFI is OK, the breaker is working, but the washer will not turn on. Calls are made to every repair shop in town, only to find nobody local services my "high end" washer! I am stuck in the throngs of FLU SEASON with no washer! (It cannot get worse, it cannot get worse, the soup was good, the soup was good!)
3. Finally get Quinn to take a nap, sit down for 5 seconds to catch my breath and listen to the wind blowing pretty hard outside...BANG CRASH BOOM! I think "Good lord, the garbage can went over and I am going to have to clean it up, damn the wind!" But no, it is an even better surprise for me as I run to the door and find not garbage in the driveway but the neighbors tree laying on my garage! Am I losing my mind? Nope, that is definately the dying/dead tree that she has been saying she needs to take care of for the past 5 years laying on the garage!
Call insurance to find that in fact she is not responsible for HER tree as it is now laying on OUR property...I can feel a case of that flu coming on (or perhaps it is just my head saying it cannot take much more)...neighbor walks over to say that she's sorry but she called her insurance and they said that SHE is not liable and the tree is OUR problem...all I can do is look at her and remind myself to keep breathing and not lose it!
Put some calls in to tree cutters in the area for estimates on getting the tree off of our garage, advise the other neighbors to keep their respective kids out of our yard and away from us (as we have the flu...and I am pretty much not in the mood to deal with other peoples children...especially you know who!),google someone to fix my washing machine, yell at the boys to get their homework done NOW, and finally cry into James shoulder as he tells it will all work out! My only consolation is the knowledge that life/bad things happens in 3's...we are done now...we can move on...just realized that Gavin has not taken his turn with the flu yet...
ugh.
1. Friday night, Owen comes down with the flu...not a quick throw up and it is over flu, but a wretching all night and most of the next day flu. He overcomes it and is better by Sunday, all is well! ...Quinn gets on the bus Monday morning, right as rain. A phone call 1 1/2 hours later comes in letting me know she puked (not pucked) on the bus and I need to pick her up. Heaven help me! Of course mom and dad are gone and Chris and Kate are so busy "working" at sleeping that I can't get them to answer the phone. I end up having to call in to work and cancel out my afternoon (fortunately, that is all I was working anyway) so that I can take care of my sick baby (not that I mind in the least because my children come first, but it is fun for me recount these facts as certain people need a little bashing occasionally and it makes the story so much better!).
2. Monday continues with a trip to the basement to wash the puke clothes only to find that my washing machine is no longer on line! That is to say, the GFI is OK, the breaker is working, but the washer will not turn on. Calls are made to every repair shop in town, only to find nobody local services my "high end" washer! I am stuck in the throngs of FLU SEASON with no washer! (It cannot get worse, it cannot get worse, the soup was good, the soup was good!)
3. Finally get Quinn to take a nap, sit down for 5 seconds to catch my breath and listen to the wind blowing pretty hard outside...BANG CRASH BOOM! I think "Good lord, the garbage can went over and I am going to have to clean it up, damn the wind!" But no, it is an even better surprise for me as I run to the door and find not garbage in the driveway but the neighbors tree laying on my garage! Am I losing my mind? Nope, that is definately the dying/dead tree that she has been saying she needs to take care of for the past 5 years laying on the garage!
Call insurance to find that in fact she is not responsible for HER tree as it is now laying on OUR property...I can feel a case of that flu coming on (or perhaps it is just my head saying it cannot take much more)...neighbor walks over to say that she's sorry but she called her insurance and they said that SHE is not liable and the tree is OUR problem...all I can do is look at her and remind myself to keep breathing and not lose it!
Put some calls in to tree cutters in the area for estimates on getting the tree off of our garage, advise the other neighbors to keep their respective kids out of our yard and away from us (as we have the flu...and I am pretty much not in the mood to deal with other peoples children...especially you know who!),google someone to fix my washing machine, yell at the boys to get their homework done NOW, and finally cry into James shoulder as he tells it will all work out! My only consolation is the knowledge that life/bad things happens in 3's...we are done now...we can move on...just realized that Gavin has not taken his turn with the flu yet...
ugh.
Quinn turns 5!
My baby has turned 5! That is 5 fingers or 5 toes worth of years! She had a good day! Fortunately the flu that she had the day before disappeared and she was right as rain for her big day! After a cold and windy morning, Quinn welcomed friends and family to celebrate her birthday! And celebrate we did! She now has a good sized collection of Barbie dolls from her friends, and make-up from her aunts(thanks a lot!!!).Quinn also received her first 2 wheeler from us which she is enjoying parading up and down the street all sparkly like...ahhh, to be 5 again!
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Last weekend of Summer
We were fortunate enough to be able to spend our last weekend of the summer of '09 up north with the Creagh family! After leaving Manitowoc early Saturday morning we hit the Geocaching trail and managed to find 15 caches before arriving at our destination in Boulder Junction. It was a fun morning, even though it was cold and rainy, and no matter what our children say afterwards, they enjoyed every minute of it! James and I decided that it was the "fastest" trip we've ever taken up north despite the fact that it took us all day.
Once in the great north woods we settled in for a couple bottles of wine and a toast to the "new baby", a steak dinner, a nice night walk around a very empty Camp Manitowish, a game of cards, a video and bed. Sunday morning we all went for a nice walk into BJ to find a few local caches and a blueberry patch that was an unexpected surprise! Everyone helped to pick a nice bag of blueberries which the Creagh's turned into some lovely blueberry muffins.
Since this trip helped us achieve our goal of 200 found caches, we celebrated with a dinner at HuHot in Green Bay and reminisced about the summer and all the great adventures we had! Although this summer wasn't the hottest we've ever had, we found that we had really enjoyed ourselves and look forward to fall!
1st Day of School
It's finally here! The first day of school and 2/3 of the Maurer children were excited and happy to be going! Quinn and Liam got on the bus just fine this morning, and while I cried at the sight of my baby getting on the bus, Jane jumped for joy and shouted, "...yeah! He's someone else's problem!!!"
I would like to say the excitement for school continued when I got home to set the boys on their way....Gavin was all smiles and Owen, well...he was Owen. The boys got on their bikes with the combination to their bike lock written in their bags and said, "Mom, you don't need to come with us..." hmmm, you'd think I would have been in tears again, however, this day has been coming and I was happy to see them off!
The dog and I hardly know what to do with ourselves! All this quiet is erie...
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