April 26th, 2019

Sorry its been awhile. Its been a crazy week. Andrew’s birthday was great! We did his annual big birthday breakfast and just hung out at the house all weekend. He ended up grounded because he wanted to throw a tantrum over the TV show we were watching. His school week wasn’t horrible. No bad phone calls from the school. Today is his bio moms birthday so she is spending the weekend with us. Yesterday we surprised him by pulling him out of school early and took him to the County Fair and Carnival! He had a blast!!! He won lots of prizes and this year he was brave enough to go on some bigger rides! The was one scary moment where our hearts dropped into our stomach. We were on the Octopus ride and Andrew was in another seat with his friend that we brought with us. Unfortunately Andrew was tall enough to go on the ride but he is so little that when the ride started spinning, he slipped out of the seat. As our son was clinging for dear life with my mom watching from the ground we were simultaneously screaming for him to hold on tight while yelling at the guy running the ride to stop the ride. His response? “Calm down lady.” Who the hell says that when a child is falling out of a ride??? Luckily J and I have this unique ability to not both freak out at the same time. While she was screaming and crying I was able to keep a cool head until we got off the ride. As she calmed down, I started to panic. Thank god my mom was there or I don’t know what I would’ve done. Watching your child have a near death experience is terrifying. After we all calmed down, everything went back to normal. We went on a ton of rides and ate a crap ton of junk food. By the time we got home Andrew was passed out and we followed suit. Today I have to go work a 10 hour shift and the baby sitter gets a day off because J will be here to pick the kid up from the bus and be home with him after school. They don’t get to spend a lot of 1 on 1 time together so I’m glad she was able to get the time off to be here this weekend. Andrew really needs it. Tonight I am making dinner for the family, J is a Gourmet Chef but its her birthday so I insisted that I am cooking tonight 🙂 It should be a great weekend!