Sunshine and Light

We Survived!

The familia was here this weekend with all of the ups and downs that it carries. On the very, very upside was they worked their butts off to help us get our act together. The hell room has been tamed down to the heck room, and is now the cluttered but usable (and now, with air conditioning!) guest room. The former guest room has been cleaned to within an inch of it's life and is now the nursery (pictures to follow). All of the baby clothes (of which we have like 10 million absolutely adorable items) are washed and put away. Our kitchen sparkles like a Christmas tree. The only clutter in the house now is stuff from the former hell room that requires sorting and the hard decisions. Like "Do I really need TWO of my grandfather's paintings. Sigh. No, one will suffice." Poor garbage men. This past week AFTER they came, one of the neighbors moved out and left a stack of stuff on the sidewalk. All of that nice trash sitting on the street for a week. In the rain. We will probably have a matching stack of stuff in front of our place.

On the downside are the usual areas where we rub each other a little raw. One of the parents has a tendency to carry on long conversations that exclude Chris completely. One is so goal oriented (MUST FINISH NURSERY!) that they're almost obsessive. Chris's mom brought her dog, Darcy. Which isn't a bad thing except that it's so spoiled it makes us look like we're abusing our dogs. And as a result, every time she left the house, he proceeded to bark in the most unbearable, high-pitched, squealing bark you have ever heard in your life. Tonight we take wine to the neighbors, and beg forgiveness.

All in all, it was a good weekend though. I ate WAAAAAAAYYYY too much. Somehow we never seem to have a light meal with the parents. And then you have both sets of parents and good.freakin.lord. Yesterday was definitely the kicker with a Max-n-Erma's breakfast buffet in the morning on Sunday, cake and ice cream for the moms birthdays (one July, one August), and then dinner at Atria's in the evening. My vote is that dinner the rest of the week consists of rice and water. The doctors are going to be crazy when they get a look at the scale. Oh well, it was very tasty.

posted by MyHusbandRules @ 7:06 AM