vacation??? hahaha don't make me laugh

Well ... this week has been just SOOO much fun. We told everyone STAY AWAY. Don't call, don't come by don't bother us. Well.. that worked well the day I took Natalie to Illinois.

I took her up Saturday afternoon. Which meant that I didn't get home until about 11 p.m.

Sunday Terry went fishing without me. I walked around town and generally goofed off at home.

We were enjoying our time together Monday and knock knock knock. The oldest daughter was at the door. I said hey ... we said NO company. She said well I've got a message from a friend of Terry's. I said alright fine. So she came in to tell him the message and to find out if she could borrow some money. We didn't and don't have it of course. So she said ok I'll tell momma to bring the baby in. So ... they came in and stayed for a couple hours. They hadn't been gone more than 10 minutes when the oldest boy called. I picked up the phone and said we don't want to be bothered today. He said well I've got a flat tired. I said I don't care. He said well screw it and hung up on me. I was half kidding. I wouldn't leave the kids so they couldn't get to work. So I called him back. He needed a ride to work. Which meant spending an hour to pick him up and then take him to work.

Monday night I went to go get something to eat and got into a MAJOR hail storm. Was NOT fun for me. I put the truck into park, put on the flashers cause heaven forbid someone should come from behind me and hit me. Put my arms over my head and said ok just hurry up with the hail will ya. I called Terry on the phone scared to death and almost in tears. I went ahead and went to get something to eat since if I had turned around to go home I would have been running right back into it. NO THANKS!

So Tuesday of course we had to go take the truck into to have the damage estimated at almost 2400 bucks. We also have a 500 dollar deductible. I was supposed to take the oldest daughter to the store with me. Well when we got back from having the guy do the estimate for the hail damage the two oldest kids were here. The boy who had the flat tire the day before needed a ride to go get the tire and then to the truck to pick it up so he could go to work. Never mind that he was driving a truck when he got here. He said he didn't think it would make it to where he wanted to get the tire from. so ... the oldest daughter took him to get the tire and said she'd be right back. Two hours later she finally showed up. She was supposed to go to work so I said well I guess that means we won't get to go shopping huh? she said no I still need to go. So we went ahead and left and I took the estimate up to the insurance company to give them the estimate and hope they would give us the check. We had almost decided that we wouldn't have the truck fixed and just get the check and pay off some of the bills. Wrong again. They said oh well we'll have the guy fix it and have him send us the final bill and we'll pay him direct.

Wednesday we actually got to go fishing for a couple hours. We came home to the oldest daughter and his wife here. Yeah he's still married.

Today we were getting ready to go fishing and the youngest child called and said hey can I borrow 50 or 60 dollars so my husband can get home and back to work and home before he gets paid Friday night. :(

I don't understand. We told them ... don't call us this is our time for a break and yet they have been "needing us" more this week than any other time. Course Sunday I have to go get my daughter back from Illinois. Maybe then it'll slow down.

Whew. I'm tired of all the running around.
have a great day!