july 9, 2011

the other night we met my old friend, Tasha and her family, including her mom and brother, at Central Market. Tasha and i have known each other since birth and she is such a special friend! she lives in the Woodlands, so we don't see each other very often, maybe a couple of times a year.

she snapped this pic of Brian and me -

we stayed out pretty late and so didn't get to bed until way past my bed time. i get up at 5 every morning to go exercise, so i was dead on my feet yesterday morning. the whole day was a train wreck. i was so exhausted and yelled at the kids, and cried, and was just an over all bad momma. but things started getting better, and late in the afternoon i took the kids over to Hyde Park to swim at Shipe pool. we ran into some friends from Maplewood and swim team there as well, and had a nice visit. when we were leaving i must've dropped my phone in the street because halfway down there road i had the kids search the swim bag for it, but we couldn't find it anywhere. we went back to the park, and there it was slightly in the road, face down with a tire mark over it. i turned it over, and yep, the screen was shattered. amazingly it still worked. but it sent me over the edge and i bawled about it all the way home. even with insurance it's $130 to get it replaced. when we got home, Margaret took her babysitting money to Brian and said that she wanted to buy me a new phone. so sweet!

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Margaret had her last regular swim meet today. just she and i went down there and sat through 85 races together. Margaret was in the last race of the day and her relay team won first place! we still have one more week of 8 pm. practices and then the regional meet at the UT swim center next Saturday. it will be nice to have our evenings and Saturdays back.

 here are a couple of pics that i "borrowed" from some other Patterson Piranha parents.





after the meet the whole team met up at a yogurt place near our house for a party. i took some pics of that, but they're on my phone. i'll upload them later.

i'm kind of obsessed with cloth diapering these days. i bought some AIO diapers on Craigslist the other day. i have a growing collection of soft things to put on my little Hazel's bum.

well, i guess that does it for tonight. i'm going to sit down and look over curriculum a little before bed.