What a crazy weekend!
You could describe it a bit like fruit basket upset.
Let’s start with Friday, Pedro’s 15th birthday.
Matt is gone to Summit for 2 weeks, Dagmar is on the couch with a 24 hour bug, and Jan & Pedro are frantically trying to get some hay baled before the rain comes.
Oh – and the heat index is about 101.
We pause in the craziness to sit around the dining room table in the air conditioned house with Nana and Poppa, eat grilled chicken and birthday cake, and watch Pedro open his presents, before heading back out to the hay field.
Saturday morning – Dagmar’s 17th birthday.
She’s feeling better so we prepare for her noon birthday party.
Jan is back in the hayfield. Buddy is on the couch with a migraine. Matt is still at Summit.
The heat index is 103.
We pause in the craziness to sit around the dining room table in the air conditioned house with Nana and Poppa, eat sweet and sour chicken and birthday cake, and watch Dagmar open her presents, before getting back to work.
Nana and Poppa head home.
The girls and I clean up the kitchen as fast as we can.
My friend Cinnamon drives in with some of her crew and a couple of extras. The teens disappear, the little’s disappear, and I get to relax a few minutes, play with baby Rosie and chat with Cinnamon.
Cinnamon packs up the crew - leaving Gunnar and Daniel to spend the night with Pedro – and offers at the last minute to take Angel Girl to their house.
Okay – so I now have 3 teen boys in the basement, one 10 year old with a migraine on the couch, an exhausted husband on the tractor in the excessive heat baling hay, one daughter at a friend’s house and another daughter who is supposed to be celebrating her 17th birthday.
And Matt is still at Summit.
Sunday morning. The hay is baled. Nathan is better. The teen boys finally wake up.
The heat index is 105. We drive to church with no air conditioning (you may remember last weeks adventure!).
Daniel and Gunnar go home. We collect Angel Girl and head home in the excessive heat in a van with no air conditioning.
My sister Tee and niece Mil are waiting when we get home. We pause in the craziness to sit down at the dining room table in the air conditioned house and enjoy ham and potatoes and ice cream cake.
The kids disappear and I get to relax a few minutes and visit with my sister.
Jan and Pedro head out in the van with no air conditioning in the excessive heat to the fairgrounds to pick up all of the 4H and open class exhibits.
Tee and Mil take Dagmar home with them head for a few days in the big city.
Jan and Pedro return, hot and tired, just in time for our traditional Sunday night meal of popcorn and sandwiches.
I now have one tired but happy husband who spent a long weekend baling and missed his Sunday nap, one happy daughter in the big city celebrating her birthday with cousins, one tired but happy daughter who had a great overnight with friends, one tired but happy son who had a lot of fun with his buddies, one tired little guy who was just glad his migraine was gone, and one tired mom who would be quite happy to singlehandedly finish off the left-over ice cream cake.
And Matt is still at Summit.
I told you it was a fruit basket upset!
