Well, it was a nice weekend. I was looking for good excuses to go driving in my car, Thelma, so I took the kids out to Florissant on Saturday to visit my mom. Jackie and Dax drove a remote controlled car around on the patio while mom took my car for a test drive to Walgreen�s.
It was a beautiful day. After the kids got done playing with the car, we went inside to play some games. I talked Mom into going out to Sioux Passage Park to take the kids to their magnificent playground. Their playground is 10 times better than any playground I know of in South County.
They ran around screaming like little banshees. There was two tree forts, two covered wagons, a giant slide, monkey bars..climbing equipment, and 3 lookout spots.
Mom shared her popcorn chicken with me. She was hungry so we�d stopped by KFC. I wasn�t hungry until I saw her eating that barbecued chicken sandwich. It looked yummy.
After the kids played themselves out, I decided to stop by Ms. Terry�s house. Ms. Terry lives about 10 minutes from my mom�s house, and about the same distance from the park. This was sort of a hard decision to make since I have not talked to her since I sent her that letter asking her to stop nagging me. My mom decided to tag along.
I ended up parking my car on the street since there was this huge Chrysler Sebring convertible in the driveway. My mom called Ms. Terry�s number and told one of the kids, probably ManMan, to tell Ms. Terry to go to the door.
When she opened the door and saw Jackie, this huge grin appeared on her face. She seemed genuinely thrilled that we stopped by. Man-man, Lewis (my godson) and this little boy named James greeted us at the door. We were ushered in quickly.
Jackie and Max went to play in Lewis� room while us adults chatted like a couple of old biddies. Lots of cackling and giggling was to be heard.
I finally told her that I�d gotten a new car. She said, �Me too!� Turns out the Sebring was her new car. She had finally gotten rid of that old Monte Carlo SS, which was the bane of her existence for years. Her son Randy had bought the new car for her, on the condition that she had to get rid of the SS.
�Would you all like some bratwurst?� Ms. Terry asked while pulling a tray out of the broiler. Bratwurst? I love Bratworst..so I was game. Dax didn�t eat any and neither did Jackie. I had two and so did my mom. I was hungrier than I thought.
Later, when it was time to go, I went back to Ms. Terry�s room. She had some papers in her lap. I sat beside her and she reached out her beautiful caramel hand, with beautiful manicured nails, to my hand and grabbed it.
�Melissa, I�m very sorry I sounded so bossy to you. That�s the last thing I want to be! I just didn�t want you making the same bad mistakes I made�I felt so bad when I read that letter.� I told her it was okay. She held my hand for a while longer and let go of it.
It was time to go. But I promised I wouldn�t stay gone for so long the next time.
It was getting late. It was 5:30 p.m. and I knew Dax�s mom, Romy, was going to be home soon. Mom had me drive me by the dollar store, since she had broken her hairbrush. I didn�t go inside because it would�ve taken us longer.
We still had 45 minutes of driving ahead. We dropped my mom off and scooted out of there.
We got home around 7:15.
Mr. Sweatpants stopped by about 8:15. I decided to treat him to Subway for dinner. So, we all went for a little drive. We got Jackie Taco Bell, and Rene� and I had sub sandwiches. We watched �Riding in Cars with Boys�, which is one of my favorite movies.
It was a nice end to a nice day.
Sunday, Dax went to a friend�s house, so it was just Jackie and I. We drove down to my grandma�s house and we had breakfast with her. As usual, I�d picked up food before I got to her house. Today, I�d gotten her a big breakfast, which is eggs, pancakes, hash brown, sausage and a biscuit.
Then, I swept and mopped the floors and took her trash out.
She didn�t understand why I had to go. I explained to her that I had laundry to do, gerbil cages to clean and a dirty house. It was going on 1:00 p.m. and it was time to go. I felt bad, but I have a life too. This was my 4th straight weekend going to Grandma�s, and I am exhausted.
I go because I love her, and she was my real mother�s mom, and she took such good care of us when we were kids. However, I�m also a working single parent, and I�d like to spend a Sunday alone with my daughter if I could. I hope that doesn�t sound selfish.
I�m tired too. I�ve been babysitting every weekend since the 28th of June. I will baby-sit every weekend until Romy finds a new full time job during the week. I promised Ms. Terry a few years ago that I�d return the favor she did me by watching Jackie, to someone else. Plus, Dax is really an easy kid.
When Jackie and I got back home, I cleaned out all the animal cages. There are, count them, 7 cages. The bald rat (Archibald), the other rat (Chedda), the hamster (Fred), the guinea pig (RoseMary), the gerbils (Saturday and Blizzard), more gerbils (Rene� and Shadow) and one girlie gerbil, Stormy.
Then, Jackie went to Arielle�s while I did laundry. That was a chore.
On a completely unrelated subject, I�ve been looking on www.fragrancenet.com for perfumes. It got me thinking about perfumes that I�ve worn in my lifetime. First, there was Electric Youth, then Vanilla Fields, then Jessica McClintock, then Tresor, then Beautiful by Estee Lauder, then Colors by Bennetton, then Sunflowers, then Escape by Calvin Klein, then Eternity by Calvin Klein, then Obsession, then Azzura, and now there is Gucci Rush. I�m now trying to decide between Armani�s Mania, or Glamorous by Ralph Lauren. I love my smell good. Fragrancenet has some really good prices and hard to find perfumes. Check it out!
9:28 am - September 21, 2004
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