Since We Last Talked...

• Mackenzie started swim and dive practice
• Dillon had his last day of work
• Dillon went to his senior prom with his girlfriend Sam
• both of my babies Graduated (Dillon from high school, Mac from elementary school)
• I had MY last day of work (did you hear the celebration from there?)
• Mac got Pink Eye AGAIN as did Scott, Debra, and Sam (Dillon's friends)
  
• Chris has come and gone for the last time, taking half my stuff with him ;)
• my parents visited and saw Dillon’s graduation
• and we toured Manassas Battlefield
• my sister, Alison, visited and attended Mac’s “promotion ceremony” with D and I
  
• after which Mac had a 6th grade dance (where Alison and I schooled them on the Electric Slide)
• and then I took her on my “Nazi Tour Guide Lady”™ Tour of DC - 10 miles in ONE day (My right hip STILL hurts. That was last Monday. No joke.)
• and we went to Wiley’s birthday party AND out to dinner in the same night
• on Tuesday and Wednesday I packed out and moved out (well, almost - we’re sleeping in the house on an air mattress until tomorrow, when we will go to Jeff & Lisa’s until Wednesday morning)
• I vowed NEVER to live in a 3-story house EVER again
• I have cleaned my house from top to bottom, including windows, chair rails, floor boards, and fan blades
• Mac and I had dinner with Beth and Sheila last night at the Greek Restaurant in Old Town where our bill came to $200 (!)
• Mackenzie had her first Swim Meet of the year
• AND ROCKED THE HOUSE! She swam free, back, and back in the medley relay and is now the proud owner of 3 new Blue Ribbons!!!
• Mac has her first Dive Meet tomorrow
• and I bought* (ACTUALLY purchased - it’s a Done Deal) a ticket to San Diego for 10 days to visit with Annie in July for some much-needed R&R

*Which reminds me... Mom & Dad, will you watch Mac while I’m in SD? That’s why I was calling you tonight while you were in Americus trying to eat dinner (where the magical Verizon Technology has apparently not yet been discovered). I bought the tickets anyway, so I hope you say yes.

The End.

I Do Wash Windows...

When Mac walked into my bedroom tonight and saw the ironing board, she said, “Oh, my God.” And then doubled over, trying to catch her breath.

When I mentioned that I might even pick up a needle and thread and do some mending, she started hyper-ventilating.

I don’t usually buy things that need to be ironed, I hate it so much, and I do have a plastic bin to store the things that need to be mended - not that I actually ‘mend’... (Who am I? Laura Ingalls Wilder?) I usually just store these skirts with ripped seams and shirts with missing buttons until they go out of style and I can throw them away. I have this Ralph Lauren khaki mini skirt that has needed the button sewed back on for the better part of 4 years (5 might not be an exaggeration). But since there is a drawstring on it, does it really need a button? It’s button has lived in the pocket of the skirt this whole time - except when it’s in the wash - then I rest it on the washing machine.

I have even carried this skirt (and it’s button) from Japan to Indiana, twice, with the intention of asking my mom to sew the button on for me, but then I remembered I was an adult and was too ashamed to ask. So I took it back home, sans button.

But as it’s time to pack up and move again, I am seriously considering trying this thing you call ‘mending’. So if you happen to catch on the news that Hell has frozen over, you can assume my skirt has regained it’s button.