I may finally be stumbling toward the weekend. Today has already had a couple challenges for my son and therefore myself as well. My evening is already planned – laundry, and maybe grocery shopping. With any luck I’ll get to watch Big Bang Theory, too, my guilty pleasure for the day.

Quote for today:

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” – Herm Albright

For the first time in like, ever.

She proclaimed and then she did cartwheels all over the yard.

We spent the day yesterday at my brother’s new house, my first visit to family since moving out on my own. We had driven out Saturday afternoon. We had only been planning the trip for about a week, his kids birthdays are close together so they had one party for everyone. My kids, of course, just wanted to see their cousins and maybe have a chance to visit Buc-ees again. I admit I was nervous, not sure how they would see me now, not sure how the kids and I would get along. I shouldn’t have worried. The birthday party (Saturday evening) was a blast, my family was happy to see me, my kids couldn’t have been better behaved (much).

I ate too much, drank too much (oy), slept on an air mattress (not my favorite place but not bad), and we had our first-ever In N Out burgers before driving home.

And yes, they got their Buc-ees.

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall.