Thursday & Friday...

Thursday was my usual babysitting day...it came very early as I did not sleep well the night before...it is a big deal right now, that sleep just seems to evade me...I can fall asleep all right (with the assistance of a sleeping pill) but then I wake up sometimes as early as 11pm (cause when I babysit the next day, I try to go to bed by 8:30 or so...so 11, and then all night I sleep for maybe an hour or so and then I am awake again...
so, Cj came and in his usual darling little self, crawls right up onto the couch, burrows his little head into the pillow and he is off to dreamland...so, I decided to try going back to sleep also and I was successful to get an hour...thank goodness...
the day did not go well...Cj was pretty good but he is much better when noone else is here...a couple of temper tantrums and peeing his pants made the day not so good...
hubby did take Cj to the duck park for an hour or so, and then at 12 when Samantha got off work at the preschool, she took Zoe and Cj to her school to see baby ducks and then ride the jury trolley that parks behind her school...
made homemade mac & cheese for dinner and was very happy to go to bed fairly early...
later after dinner we skyped with the little kids...

woke up Friday with a raging migraine but had dreams of getting a lot done today...decided to go ahead and do what I wanted to just to get it done...so off we went to the commissary (I wanted to get a tri tip roast for Memorial Day) and the commissary has the best ones...also stopped at Sam's to get charcoal and of course get hot dogs for lunch...come home and take a nap and sort of get rid of my headache...
made a great new recipe for dinner that everyone seemed to love...chicken and wild rice casserole...

while at Sam's 2 things happened: (copied from my FB)

raining in Mo Val this morning at the commissary and at Sam's...needed my jacket...heartwarming observation at Sam's today...(Mona P you will appreciate) 15 challenged young people with 4 caretakers all eating the pizza or hot dog deal (how can you go wrong for 1.50)...what got to me that the caretakers were very caring and it tugged at my heart just a tad...as they went by each kid they would pat... them on the back, cut their pizza for them, talked and laughed with each one...I have seen other caretakers be mean to their charges and this was so refreshing to see these kids happy, laughing and smiling and having a good time...this one kids was in a "hi, how are you?" mood over and over to me but, I was game as long as he was happy...I do not have the patience for this type of work but lots of kudos for these people today...

and then:

the other thing that happened at Sam's...Ross went to get charcoal while I went to stand in line for hot dogs...as I was passing him in line to get a table, he had everyone in line wave to me and call out to me...nice way to embarrass me, honey...