Weekend Wampage

The weekend didn't start on time...  All day Friday, at work, was crazy and it lasted until 6:30 whereupon I crashed. Well, after making a quick pizza using hamburger and Bisquick.  Robb had a ton of chauffeuring to do over the weekend and he got back about that time to eat with me.

Oh and hey look!  Leon pulled out a tooth on the bus on Friday!  

We've been humming the All I want for Christmas song all weekend.

On Saturday, Leon and his little brother, Finn, came back to the house and we babysat most of the day while their mom worked.  

Leon and I played Battleship and Finn wanted to join in.  He wasn't too accurate with putting the pins into the holes I pointed at, so luckily we had a spare Battleship board and he took over that one.  He had a lot of fun until he spilled it.  But then he was meticulous on picking up all the little pieces, so that was ok.

The  game was fun for Leon and me tho.  Well, until I got a HIT!  So I guessed the spot after the hit and it was a miss.  Then quessed the spot before the hit and IT was a miss.  Then guessed the spot ABOVE the hit and IT was a miss too.  ummmm Leon?  Come here for a minute...

I covered up the bottom of my board and asked him if he could explain this...

Oh....  hmmm...

When he got back to his board, which he left on the floor under the desk, Finn had already found it and had moved some pins for him.  Yeah - this wasn't going to end well...  So we broke for lunch.

AND while Finn took a 2.5 hour nap, I got to sew.  Still on that top that I made a leggings out of a while back.  

I don't know what it is about this fabric, but it sucks to do a seam with my standard sewing machine.  The stitches pop and ploop all over the place.  So much so that I was kicking myself for not going with my initial decision of handstitching the hems into place.  So I serged the hems off and used up all of my hem tape to tack a new hem in place and then started handstitching it.  SO much better!  But taking forever.  

I'm about 90% done with the sleeve hems and I'm sure the hem hem will take all week with the amount of down time I have to actually sit...

After the boys went back to their mom's we had a nice birthday dinner for Robb's mom and Meri and Ryan were able to come.  And because my camera was too slow to come up on my phone, this photo is staged.  

I had HyVee make up some gorgeous little cupcakes, because WHO needs three leftover cakes in a two week span?  NOT THIS CHICK!

I'm just rather relieved there aren't any birthdays in our household NEXT weekend.  

I found the Last Supper pic on the right at a garage sale years ago and it's been there almost since we moved in here, 21 years ago.  But moved it a bit and added the Jesus knocking picture over the weekend.  This pic used to hang in our old church, then in Mom and Dad's home and THEN in her nursing home room up until the end.

And now it's mine.

My dad likes to think of it as, "What if Jesus came to visit your home?  What would you cover up quick that you would be ashamed if he saw? or would you even look up from your phone to answer the door?"

I love it.

Leon says that it looks like it's always been there.  And it fits the space well.

On Sunday, I started feeling like my old busy self.  After a taco potluck at church and picking up Leon from his mom's again, I did some housework and made a 5 gallon bucket of laundry detergent based on the Duggar recipe that I found many years ago.  I'd gotten lazy lately and been using store bought.  *GASP*

And while I'm at it, here is my favorite homemade salad dressing recipe.  Matthew asked if I had any made when they were here last weekend and that inspired me to make some this weekend.  

I always use Splenda instead of sugar so it's sugar free!

Sorry you missed it Matthew!

Spent some time visiting my bestie and will have lunch with her today.  I don't know what I'm going to take, (it's my treat today) but it will probably be pepperoni pizza from Casey's...  

Leftovers for supper.  And the chicken taco mixture is all gone...

I am very envious of my bloggy friends who have a menu planned for the week.  In my house, if I did that, someone would eat all of a main ingredient and I'd be stuck making some exotic dish using hotdogs instead...  really...?...

Oh!  We're down to just one dog now.  And he's depressed.  

pre-cone of shame.

Altho he has the run of the house now since the bladder challenged one has finally left.  Reedus has had some issues with chewing on his legs and it's only gotten worse.  The vet has chimed in, so has an old 4H friend who specialized in dogs.  Well, after I asked their advice.  

We found that if you baste lemon juice on the bandage (it was recommended) that Reedus loves it.  He also loves the Hot Spot spray from Petco.

Meri and I made a pepper flake puree mixture that we're smearing all over the dog bandages and dang it..  Reedus sort of likes it...  After a little while of licking it, he goes and drinks a LOT of water. 

So this MIGHT work...

But he's laying at my feet today all bandaged up so if his cone of shame head even goes near his hurt legs, I'm grunting the "ET" command and he leaves it alone.  At least until I'm out of the room.  I guess I'll be programming from the dining room until he's healed...  Silly dog...

He's got a meaty bone that I got from the store but he's leaving it alone today.  sigh.

Anyway, back to work.  Have a good week!!!