I am home...

and here is my novel.
I fit a 2 week vacation into 5 days I think it will take me a month to recover!! I had a wonderful time. The night we got there we had a bday party for my oldest brother and we had 5 of the 8 kids in one house, the other 2 who live in Michigan are crazy so they were not missed too much and the other brother lives in New Hampshire and told us that he wants nothing to do with us. So all the kids that mattered were there!! It was really nice and my brother was so happy to have all of us there for him. He is going through a divorse and a tough time and we all love him, but I know it is hard to feel that way when you are so down. The next morning I dropped off my brother who is going to live with me in May (YEAH!!) at my grandma's house that my other brother bought and is fixing up to sell (I am sure I lost some of you there!) then headed down to Kare-bear's to meet the baby Wyatt. He is so cute he had a doc appointment and Karen couldn't believe that he already weighs 9lbs8oz at 5 weeks he was 6lbs 10oz at 1 week. He is doing great and is more alert and actually would look for Chubs when he heard her voice. It was nice being there her house is always my vacation from my vacation it is quiet and just a little sanctuary. I stayed the night which was fun seeing as Wyatt got up at 12:30 then Chubs at 2:30 then Wyatt at 4 then we were all up for the day at 6:30, but there was snow on the ground. So I got Chubs dressed and got a couple pics of her standing in the 1" of snow!! She was okay with it until she touched it.
After slowly getting ready I headed up to my sisters shower it was about an hour and half drive in the snow through downtown Detroit, but I loved it. The shower wasn't so bad but my crazy older sister had to make a scene and I felt horrible for my little sis but she shook it off, go sis. After the shower we met up with my brother who bought my grandma's house (not the same one I dropped off at grandmas) and his wife and my nephew for some Greek food then they were heading downtown with my sisters fiancee to go to motorcross. After diner I took Chubs back to my mom's and got her in bed so we could go bowling. My mom actually asked if I could go bowling! Apparently she did nothing while she was pregnant with the 8 of us!! My sis and I had a good laugh about the way my mom was treating me in general. I went bowling with my sister-in-law (who is divorsing my oldest brother, but we all like her anyway the marriage was just over) my two nieces, my little sis and Kevin (the brother who is coming to live with me and fixing up grandma's house). It was fun even though my niece who is 12 threw a fit the whole time but oh well she is just at that teenage years of the world is out to get her and no one likes her or understands her. ICK I am DREADING these years.
Sunday I went to church and my dad was serving so Chubs kept trying to get out of my arms to go find grandpa. So it was a LONG hour for me, I haven't been to church in FOREVER and my mom seemed offended that I didn't get communion, oh well. Right after church I surprised Flyboys mom with a visit she had no idea I was in town. It was a good visit which surprised me and I was an hour late leaving so I felt horrible that my next visit was shortened. I went to meet up with some friends from high school that I haven't really talked to in about 6 years. One of the friends has a son Chubs age and of course Chubs taught him the word "mine". It was so nice hanging out with them I could have been there all day, but no I had to drive an hour to get my little sis's car back to her. So off I went I had dinner and got to say goodbye and then my parents and I headed home. Monday we went to a really cool mall called Great Lakes Crossing and let Chubs play and went to the Rainforrest Cafe before my parents dropped me off at the airport. Chubs did okay on the flights but was definately over stimulated and done, but her face lit up so much when she saw her sisters and daddy.
Now I am off to attempt to clean up after Flyboy at least he has a late flight so he will be outa my hair I hate cleaning around him. Poor Apple Juice comes up to me yesterday saying I have no pjs daddy didn't do any laundry. Flyboy looked at me and said I checked their underware drawers and they looked good!!
Oh man I got about 5 loads at least I did all of mine and Chubs before coming home! He did paint and finish the floor and take Monkey dress shopping (which was a 4 hour trip to Regency) he said all the ladies thought it was so cute that he took his daughters shopping. He just bought her a blue and black dress that I don't think will look right for a spring wedding, but try and convince Monkey of that!! It is adorable and looks like a homecoming dress and she looks about 13 in it, but it just isn't springy enough, so I get to continue the dress shopping saga once I can walk through the house again...