The Long Good Bye..

We had a nice weekend over at Josh's Mom's place.  Josh and Zane helped her finish moving in and her apartment is all cleaned out and keys turned in.  It is funny how he will jump for his mom (cute really) and do what she asks ASAP but all the little things around our own home sits and sits.  FYI my keyboard drawer for the desk he made me has yet to be built. LOL  But I love seeing Josh with his mom and how they interact.  It is really sweet.  This is one of my in laws that I can actually not work at liking and loving.. but that maybe also because she is a 3 hour drive away.  I like the little house she is renting and she is excited because there is an extra room for when the kids and us come to visit.  Much bigger than the small apartment she was in.  About the only complaint is it is really old and seems like all the walls are off square so all her book selves look like they are leaning.  If you look at them crossed eyed it feels like you are in a fun house.

As they was finishing up the move I made dinner.  I had taken off all my rings because I made meat loaf, and you know how messy that can be.  Sophia insisted on helping me peal potatoes.  She got a Mrs Potato Head for Christmas this year so she was kinda horrified really.. she said I was killing the potatoes and was talking to them to comfort them.  Children are so funny.  I explained that the potatoes are all ready dead, that they died as soon as they came out of the ground where they lived, so I wasn't murdering them really.  And I told her that is what their purpose is, so we can live and be fed, so really they are happy about it, they are being used what they were created by God to do.  That helped her some, but she wanted to peel and that was a big mess when she decided to stab them and say DIE DIE.. yikes.  I don't know if I should laugh about that or be scared.

Cooking in another women's kitchen can be frustrating and a bit nerving when you consider this is the MOM that is really good at cooking and I am always being compared to.  I felt so stupid having to wait for them to come back to the house on one of their trips because I couldn't figure out how to turn on the gas stove.  I thought you had to wait to hear a click to know it was lit and I never did so I was afraid of gas killing us all LOL. We have an electric stove.. it has been a very long time since I have worked with gas.. and that is Josh's dream.. to have a gas one.  The meat loaf was finished before the potatoes so I thought just leaving it in the oven on warm would be ok.. but it got all crusty on the outside.  I thought it was ruined but Josh insisted he liked it that way.. (what ever) but the potatoes and peas was good lol even if Lilly wouldn't eat them because Josh mixed them together on her plate.  I tried to tell him all little kids are like that, they are funny about how food is on their plate and doesn't he remember that when he was little.  He boasted that he always ate his veggies and loves his peas mixed with his mashed potatoes and that Lilly is just being picky.

After dinner I did all the dishes and again.. weired because I didn't know where anything went. LOL  But I wanted his mom to relax after all the work they had done moving and rearranging.  I always wonder what the proper protocol is when you are a guest.  I would never want anyone to wash my dishes and rather they leave them for us to do but Josh seems to think when ever we are the guest it is our job to make sure there is no extra work.  And that is fine, I have no prob with that.

I must be sensitive this week but any movie we watched over there made me cry.  We watched the Wizard of Oz and I cried lol and we watched Spencer Mountain and I cried.  We watched that show Extreme Make Over Home Edition and I cried. LOL

 

I really like this movie and will have to add it to my list of books to read.  Josh said he read it in the 8th grade and that is when he first learned how books and the movie made from books are not always the same.  My fav part was when Spencer got the new Preacher drunk and when no one went to his church because of it he black mailed everyone in town lol.  Sounds worse that it is but it was funny and a big tear jerker.  When they played the song In The Garden (as heard on my journal by Randy Travis, is that better Kara??) I lost it.  It was one of the songs played at my grandmother's funeral and one of her fav. songs.

I called this post the long good bye because that is what our leaving his mom's was like.  We said our good byes and hugs and kisses and got all loaded into the van.  Then I realized I forgot something and had to run back in.  Then Josh realized he forgot something and had to run back in.  After we got to the gas station I looked down at my hand and wanted to play with my bracelet and discovered I had left them.  I hardly take them off but since I cooked I did.  So we had to run back over so I could get them.  His mom didn't hear me knocking and had the house locked up tight lol and we had to call her on the cell to let me in.  MAN I would of gone nuts to have to wait and get my rings back.  I would of felt so naked.

Well the Direct TV is installed and that could be a cute post in of it's self but I will spare you and go and watch some of it.  The girls are watching The Wiggles for the first time.. WTH is up with those guys??? LOL