she’s back…..

the girl arrived very tired but safely last night around 11pm (when they arrived home).  her flight was delayed, and she had to catch THREE airplanes.  do not ask me why b/c i do not know why ALL the flights were like that.  we were all quite worried about her, hoping she would manage her way through it all.

she texted me on each change/leg/annoyance.  i asked her to call her mother and let her mother know that she was safe too.

i started cleaning out the garage fully on tuesday, i did the back deck on monday (we have a deck tent back there and it had all kinds of mold and pollen and various other items that were left and discarded).  monday’s event was quickly ended after i shook a tree.  something fell from the tree, it felt like a million tiny needles sticking themselves into both of my eyes.

i just knew i’d blinded myself for good this time.  i’ll write about that later, it’s very heartbreaking.  luckily, my sight returned and i blamed it all on my husband b/c that’s what i do.  he wasn’t anywhere around at the time, but that’s what you do.

i was using tylex on the garage cleaning, taking everything out, clearing away the millions of spiders and other uncertain critters that stuck themselves to the shelves.  i got a tylex headache that first night.  i know better than to use tylex like that, getting a migraine from it every time i do more than spray it into the turlet.

i over do it, like i know anything about balance.  geesh.

i had stuff strewn all over the driveway, boxes and boxes of cardboard crap to keep on hand for shipping and mailing.  all throwned away!  i love throwing things away, it brings me immense joy.  i haven’t cleaned out the garage to this magnitude in at least two years.  it’s not like anyone else around here is going to do it either.

so far, four HUGE bags of trash have come out of the garage.  YAY!  it’s not complete but i was trying to get it that way before the girl arrived and had to pull my reins back in.  i didn’t want to scare her with the crazy in the driveway.  i go to a study group on wednesday nights and i was so looking forward to going on wednesday.  then i realized that we only have the one car, luke had gymnastics until 5:30 and the husband had to leave by 7 to get to the airport (before we knew her flight was delayed).  i was rather bummed that i would miss my book study, but i pulled mah breetches up and moved forward b/c that’s what i do.

i’m always amazed with how much more beautiful she gets, amazed at how grown up she seems.  i feel this way about my niece and nephew too why do they have to grow up so fast?  we were on the couch last night, she showing me an avatar building thing and i was having fun with and she was laughing at me.  she said, “you laugh SO much, you are like happy all the time.”

little does she know.

she’s the reason for my extra giddyness, having her here where she really wants to be,  free to be who she is, comfortable and cuddled up beside of me on the couch.  her smiles, her laughter that’s what fills my heart with joy.

that and, now i can lay around and eat cake while she does all the cooking and cleaning around here.  don’t forget, i’m the EVIL stepmamma.