I'm melting! I'm melting!

You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

Sorry - my best friend is a HUGE Wizard of Oz fan, so we tend to quote from it often...

and your little dog too!

Saturday afternoon, Maddy and Meri got extremely wet while making a couple snowmen in our front yard. I was inside getting ready for our dinner party and it kept them from begging off of housework... Their lack of interest to help was plain to see, as plain as the nose on my face!

Here are their masterpieces!They came in and got curly egg noodles, colored them with black magic marker for the "doo". Cute, huh?Unfortunately Maddy's had already fallen apart and the top slid off before her boyfriend showed up to see it.

Oh, so she is! Well, bust my buttons! Why didn't you say that in the first place?

That was the evening of "Meet The Parents"...

Bah! We've known them for 17 years! Maddy had attended Kindermusic with the boyfriend at his mom's house when she was in preschool. And their older son was one of my son's best friends for many years. But we'd never had them over for dinner.

We grilled out steaks and chicken. Robb had to shovel a path to the grill on the deck. Baked some ginormous potatoes. Gayle brought some homegrown sweetcorn that tasted like summer. HONEST!! It was THAT good! She also brought fruit pizza! *drools*After dinner, we played a crazy game of Mad Gab. Meri rocks at that game! I think it's her keen sense of hearing and that's why she can understand when Robb and I try to whisper a conversation. She's used to making sense of things she shouldn't understand.

Then we broke out the Apples To Apples and my mother-in-law won. I think because she deliberately tried the most appropriate words every single time. dang. I should have tried that. When in doubt, I pick something that's an inside joke or the exact opposite... And Meri understands what most of the words mean now, so I can't bank on her picking Spiderman just because she loves him...

Anyway, we had a great time. I haven't laughed that much in one evening in a long time. Oh and this was when I told the potty training stories about Maddy. Of course we heard some funny things about the boyfriend too so it made it ok... It reminds me of Robb and my first years of married life. There was a girl that we worked with that on the weekends we got together with her and her fiance and had board game nights.

I need to make more time for things like that.

My! People come and go so quickly here!