One evening last week, Dan & I decided we wanted pizza for dinner. Since Dan was outside working in the garage, I told him I'd take Sean with me to get the pizza; however, once we were outside in the 50-something degree weather, Sean decided he wanted to stay & play. So off I went solo. When I returned home with the pizza, this is what I saw:


Sean was so excited that he could make a basket!!! It was adorable!

This weekend has been crazy busy for the three of us (well, really mostly for Dan, but Sean & I were along for the ride, hee hee!). We spent most of yesterday at Kerry's house doing a few odds & ends and letting the boys play together. Then we spent this morning at Mom's & Aunt Janet's houses doing odds & ends there as well. And the fact that we lost an hour in the night doesn't do much to slow down this fast-moving weekend. But I admit, it was kind of fun to wake up this morning, look at the clock, see that it reads 7:30am and feel like I slept in. Our crazy cats have woken me up at 6am Friday, Saturday, and today (well, technically 6:30am this morning) scratching the carpet in our bedroom. On my days off! Once I've come to consciousness and yelled at them, it's impossible for me to go back to sleep. Ugh!

It's currently 3:17pm, Sean & Daddy are both having naps, and I've decided to skip the nap today in favor of an earlier bedtime tonight. Got a long meeting at work tomorrow -- need to rest up so I can stay awake for it, hee hee!

(Updating the Photo Album in a few....)

Furlough Friday 4 of 5

Why do Furlough Friday's go so fast? I woke up at 6am this morning -- yes, on my day off (GAH!!) -- and it's already nearly 3pm. Where on earth did the time go? And what have I done with myself today?

I certainly haven't been camera-happy these past couple weeks. Heck, I haven't even cleared the February memory stick to make room for March pictures. So therefore, I really have no pictures to share. But I'm bumming that I didn't take a picture of our yard last Sunday so I could take another one today and show off the fact that in five days, we lost, like, 12+ inches of snow!! It's been consistently in the high 50's and low 60's this week. Then the rain came in Wednesday and took care of what snow hadn't melted by that point. Other than large snowbanks made by the plows, the ground is now all clear. Too bad it's barely mid-March and probably won't stay that way, though I tend to doubt we'll see several inches at one time again this year (*crossing fingers and knocking on wood*).

As for Little Dude, he's enjoying Furlough Friday with Mommy. I had a chiropractor appointment this morning so he came with me for that (my chiro has a toy area in his office, which is mostly used by one or more of his 27 grandchildren, but occasionally by patients' children too, hee hee!). In the car on the way there, I tried to get Sean to say "chiropractor." It came out, "cryo-quapper" HAHAHA! It's fun making 2-year olds say things.

And now for a Sean funny:

The other day, Sean & I got home from work/daycare and before we even had our jackets off, he ran into the livingroom. I went in after him to take his coat off and noticed he's chewing.

Well, I hadn't given him any food so I was about to ask him what he was eating when he looked at me with a big grin and said, "Good chip, Mommy!"

??????? Chip ???????? What chip ????????

So I asked, "Sean, what are you eating?!"

"Good chip, Mommy," and he keeps chewing.

I tried to get him to open his mouth, but by the time he did, whatever it was, was gone. He just kept repeating, "Good chip, Mommy."

I have no clue what he ate that day, but all I could do was hope it was, in fact, a chip (or eat least a remnant of some kind of food... I shudder to think....).

I've been scolded for not blogging in a week, and I promised that I would blog during Sean's nap this afternoon, but when it came down to it, I decided a nap sounded good to me too. So I turned off my phone and snoozed for an hour (as did Daddy). So now that we're all up & situated -- Daddy in his man cave (garage), Sean in the la-la-loom (translated: livingroom), and me on the computer -- I have time to write.

The big event of the week has been that I've had to move offices because I came back to a flood at work. Our building -- the section where my office is located, in particular -- had been having a few minor leak problems for several months now. In the summer/fall, it'd leak in my office every time it rained. The management company would come out and do things to attempt to fix the problem, but the next time it'd rain, I'd get splashed. I eventually hung a white trash bag across my window to deflect the water, and a few weeks ago when we had a little bit of melting, I moved my computer away from the window.

Then came last week.

Apparently, we received about 10-15 inches of snow last week while we were gone. Then higher-than-freezing temperatures during the days would begin melting the snow. And our poor old building just couldn't take all the wetness.

By Monday morning, I was sloshing when I walked into my office. The ceiling tiles were brown and droopy, and the water had gotten onto more of my belongings than it had ever reached before (and my supervisor had done everything she could to move stuff out of the way too!). And it wasn't just regular rain water either: this water had gone through the building somehow so it was a brownish-yellow. The smell was that of must & mold, and I knew I couldn't stay there anymore.

Here's a snapshot of the tarp they hung to prevent any more water from hitting the office stuff (this doesn't stop the water from going behind the tarp and drenching the floor...). You can see the water sitting on my desk where the computer used to be, and on the left (under my "Bang Head Here" sign), you can see a thick film where some splashing had happened. And check out the lovely water-stained blue office panel under the window.

So this week was BUSY! I'd been away from work for five days so I had some catching up to do, and I had to move offices. Thankfully, the facilities management people were on top of it (my supervisor put in an emergency request to move my phone & computer due to the flood), so by Tuesday, those were moved and I just focused on getting caught up on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning. Then I spent Friday afternoon lugging personal belongings to my new, windowless-but-dry digs. And brutally purging files and personal belongings that just didn't need to be taking up space in my office. As of 4:30pm yesterday when I left, it's still a work in progress. I still have to finish putting things away and I need to continue catching up on the work. But when all is said & done, it'll be better! And dry. Dry is the key word here. Dry.

Other than that, the week was pretty much a normal work week. Dan didn't seem to have any fires to put out upon his return, and Sean returned to daycare, happily! Actually, he started asking to see Pat during the weekend last weekend, so when we walked in on Monday morning, he was all too happy to see me leave for work, haha! And when I went to pick him up Monday evening, he... well, he cried! Yep, poor kid missed his friends (and probably his routine as well).

Home again, home again, jiggity jog.

The plane ride from Orlando to Detroit was smooth for the most part (a few bumps here & there but nothing that had me white-knuckling the armrests of my seat). In fact, Sean didn't even make it to takeoff. Once we were taxiing, he leaned to the side and as much as he tried to fight it, he passed out cold before we were off the ground. And I must admit, as much as I hate to fly, I was a lot less scared on the flight yesterday than I was in the car from Detroit to home. The weather sucked! Snow, slush, idiot drivers, and an overturned semi on the eastbound side of the expressway that had everyone on the westbound side stopping to gawk. Ugh! It took us about 20-30 minutes longer to get home than it should've, but the important thing is that we all made it back to our houses, safe & sound.

I hated leaving Orlando, definitely, but there really is a lot to be said for setting foot back in your own house after being gone five days. Seeing your own kitties. Using your own bathroom. Sleeping in your own bed. Sean went to bed at 8pm last night and we didn't hear from him again till about 7:30am. Dan fell asleep around 8:30pm and I fell asleep about 9:30 and we both slept till 7:30 when Sean woke up. And truth be told, I could easily fall back asleep right now. It's rough, this vacation recovery.

I did want to show off a few additional pictures we had taken down there that I had to scan in:

We had this done at Magic Kingdom at Mr. Dan's request. They were going to morph my head onto Natalie Portman's body for this pic, but they realized I was smokin' hot so those are my own abs. Scouts honor *hee hee*.

Here are a couple of pictures of Sean & I feeding the dolphins that were taken by the SeaWorld photographers. They got a better angle.