Week-End At Great Wolf Lodge

The week-end at Great Wolf Lodge was, for the most part, great. Emily discovered the joys of waterslides and spent as much time as I could accommodate climbing up then sliding down. Krissy discovered how to be a kid of five - it took about 10 minutes at the waterpark to get a smile on her face but once there, it stayed all week-end (pretty much). Felicia passed on the waterpark (I think she was self conscious about her body in a swimsuit) but entertained herself with MagiQuest and the arcade (she was, as always, the most expensive to keep happy).

The exception to the fun was Shawn. He came in Saturday night with a bottle of booze and quickly slammed three drinks before we took Emmi to the waterpark. As the night progressed, so did his drinking until he was stumbling around in his underwear swearing and making derogatory remarks. Fortunately Krissy was asleep by then and Felicia was at the arcade, but poor Emily was scared. It was storming outside and that had her nervous but she was more scared of Shawn, opting to hide out in the 'cabin' until he passed out. I am beyond livid at his behavior and I let him know it today (he conveniently has no memory of what he did and said). I pointed out that it would never have happened if the kids had been Weissenbachs. But because they were not just Hunts but Susanna's kids, he felt it was OK to be crude and crass around them. He will not be invited to join our outings again. I have to protect them from that kind of behavior.

And like always, he seems to think all he has to do is say 'I'm sorry. I love you' and all will be right.

Just in time for our vacation weeks. Like usual.

Life Is Good

Connecting with Shawn is so worth all the time spent away from him. My favorite thing in the world to do is to just sit and talk with him. If we're sharing a bottle of wine or a platter of chicken wings - all the better.

I'm missing my Cujo Baby Cujo Kitten today. I can't believe she's been gone from me for 5 months. I miss her so much.

We've decided Curly Monkey is a boy after all. I guess the vet was just tired or something when I took him in. Granted he's not as endowed as his brother, but there is definitely something between his legs. Poor thing - he has to have a complex by now! I love him regardless of gender - or in the absence of one if that be the case.

Have all the Weissenbach kids' Christmas gifts ordered! I need to figure something out for Shawn - last year wasn't very successful with him. He's a hard one.

Laboring on Labor Day

I went from a three-day week-end to working all week-end! How did that happen?!?! Guess I wanted the boss to think of me as a team player so when the call went out to work (with a floating holiday), I answered. Good for me - and dumb for me! I could have used the time off. (But I sure knocked out a lot of letters!)

Shawn and I went to Holy-Field Winery yesterday for the first time. It was full of folks who had helped 'bring in the harvest'; we were the only ones actually drinking wine! And what wine it was! As normal we split a bottle but this was some potent stuff. We got more than tipsy off it. However, when we went in to buy some bottles to take home, they inadvertently gave us twice the order and we were snookered enough to not notice till we got home. So we hit our own 'buy-one-get-one-free' sale on some very good wine!

We have a busy October lining up - a four-day trip to Vegas, a week-end at Basswood RV (in our own cabin this time) and a two-day trip to the Omaha Zoo. Nothing huge or fancy but enough fun things to make it feel like a real vacation for Shawn. Now we just have to figure out how to pay for it all!