It has been raining like crazy since last week, and its supposed to keep raining all weekend long. My kids have been driving me crazy with the whole “I’m bored” spiel ever since Thursday, because my kids are usually always outside playing sports or playing in the yard with toys and friends. My son especially, he absolutely loves playing basketball all day, everyday. The weekends are usually my time to relax since I work all week at two full time jobs and most of the time worn out and not being able to move at all after work, but I almost always try to make time for family events or just little things to do with the kids to keep them happy and cheerful. Hubby on the other hand, sometimes is required to work on the weekends but usually most of the time comes home and plays with the kids until they all can’t move, which I think is so awesome that he does that. But this weekend is a little hard on all of us, Hubby and I are both feeling a bit sick and can hardly get the energy to move to do anything, and the kids are so bored because its rainy heavily outside and they cant do any activities they normally do. SO I got up today and went to the movie store an rented quit a few movies for them that they have been wanting to see here for a while, and hopefully it keeps them busy long enough to where we can feel better and do family things again. I hope it stops pouring out there soon, I’ll smile big when it happens, I know my kids sure will be smiling big.
Crazy Weathermen
We are trying to make plans for the week-end but the weathermen won’t make up their minds.
At first they were saying that it will rain on Sunday, then it changed to Sunday evening/Monday morning, now they are saying Sunday again, ugh, it makes it hard to plan things this way.
My youngest wants to invite her girlfriends over for a sleep over and I would like to take them to the park and possibly go creek walking with them. We love finding a creek and then walking in and around it while following where it takes us, we have been doing it for years now and the girls really enjoy it. We find all kinds of interesting things along the way and the girls get to see first hand how awful people are about littering, the creek is almost always full of all kinds of trash, which makes us very sad indeed. It ends up a learning experience for all of us in some way or another it seems.
Nice weather for the Pope’s visit
It was a bit chilly today for the Pope’s arrival into our nations capitol, Washington D.C., on T.V. the wind was seen blowing the women’s dresses all over and several hats went flying away and the Pope had to grab the garment that he wears on his head so it wouldn’t take off in the wind.
The weather man says that we are in for some very nice weather for the next couple of days. Tomorrow we should see the 60’s, the next day the 70’s and the following day there is talk of almost hitting the 80 degree mark, now that is what I’m talking about.
We may even have a rain free weekend, we haven’t had one of those in a few weeks. As much as we need the rain, I wish it would do it during the week and not on the weekends, but I know that is a large request.
What a beautiful day
The day was so nice that Hubby and I just had to go outside and enjoy some of it, it was in the mid seventies! It rained all day yesterday (Sunday) and now we are in for a nice week, it least that is what they are saying today.
The yard is in need of so much that at first we were over whelmed, but we just dug in and soon the afternoon was almost over and we were getting hungry for dinner. I love that it can be 7:30pm and it is still light outside.
I can’t wait until the firefly’s start coming out, there is something magical about seeing them flittering about in the backyard. And we should be getting some hummingbirds again this year, they are so cool to watch!
Yardwork
It turned out the be such a nice warm day, it hit the 70’s and it is supposed to stay this way at least for a few more days. I hope that it stays longer than that.
After my youngest got home from school, I got her a snack and then got her started on her homework. I then managed to sneak outside for a good hour and got my hands nice and dirty and got some weeding and raking done. Boy it felt good, all kinds of people were out and about, walking by and stopping to say a quick hello and a how do you do, enjoying the nice warm weather.
I also managed to half way clean off the back porch, I’m gonna need Hubby to turn the outside faucets back on, I don’t think we will be having anymore below freezing nights anymore, and so many things need a good hosing off.
I hope to be able and go back out again for just a bit tomorrow, a little at a time and it will all get down in due time.
Beautiful Saturday
I swear, you just can’t trust a weatherman, I would never ever consider having a relationship with a weather forecaster because they have a hard time telling the truth and you cannot trust them as far as you can throw them.
All week we have heard nothing but how Saturday is going to be rainy, all day long, and then on Sunday the weather would clear and end up being a nice day. Well guess what, it is Saturday and not a drop has been seen or felt, it is a beautiful warm sunny day, and now they are saying that Sunday it will be raining all day.
Well they were wrong about Saturday, maybe (I hope) they will be wrong about Sunday. I really hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, Hubby and the youngest are to go to the flea market in the “big city” way early in the morning and if it rains it will ruin everything. Hubby has done pretty good the past two Sundays that he went into the city, if he could have just a few more like it things would be a whole lot better and we just might be able to pay all of our monthly bills on time this month.
Looking forword to a slow week
I only am scheduled for two shifts this week at the mall, Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon, I’ve been lucky lately and haven’t worked a week-end for well over a month, so I guess I can’t complain too much.
My brother has emailed me that he has a PC for me and will coming up for a visit soon and bring it with so that he can set it up and hook it up, ready, set, go, 1,2,3 and all of that. I guess it will be going onto the dining room table, we never use it to eat on anyway, maybe once a month, if that, we all sit down together. At least I will be close to the kitchen, bathroom, front and back door, right smack dab in the middle of the house, easily accessible to everyone that is so dependent on me for every single little thing. Oh my, I sound a bit resentful don’t I?
I hope the weather will be consistent this week, it needs to make up it’s mind if we are going to be hot or cold, wet or dry, I could plan my week a little better if I knew what to expect. Guess we will find out the old fashioned way, wait and see.
Please not another snow day….but we got oil!
We are having more snow and it is supossed to get really bad tonight, looks like tomorrow will be another snow day, but the oil delivery guy finally arrived this a.m. and we got plenty of heat now so we will be toasty warm all together, again. At least Hubby will be out of the house by being kept busy at work with all the freezing pipes and all. I’ll have to cook something nice up for him, he’ll be pretty well beat, I’m sure of that. The kids and I will curl up by the fire, sipping our hot coco, and he’ll be sitting there with us, sipping on his beer!
We ran out of heating oil and it’s snowing outside
I hate it when that happens. Didn’t notice that we were out until it was too late to call the oil company, so we are going to light up the fireplace, snuggle up some and watch movies while drinking some nice hot coco.
If it keeps snowing, they will close the schools in the morning, once again, and that will start cutting into the Spring Break vacation days, that would be a bummer.
Hubby says that there is a total eclipse of the moon tonight. We plan on looking outside around 8:45 through 10:00pm to see it. The next one won’t be for two more years!
Another Snow day – school’s out again
Today’s storm is racing toward New England and winds are increasing along with colder air sweeping in this evening. A wave in the upper air may combine with moisture still over us to produce a period of wet snow later this evening into overnight before the snow moves off by 5AM. There may be enough moisture for 1-2″ of snow especially in the southern suburbs. High pressure builds in Thursday for a return of sunshine but the morning rush hour, before sunrise could be slippery again.
From NBC4 Chief Meteorologist: 
TONIGHT:
Cloudy and Windy
Chance wet snow after sunset
Clearing Late
Winds: NW 10 – 20 mph
Lows: 24° – 28°