Can you believe MY wonderful Max, showed up to the back door looking like this! I immediately picked him up and put him in the bathtub. And this would be where I grabbed my cell phone and took a picture. He's so pittiful! but there is NO POSSIBLE way, I can let him run around the house looking like something out of the movie "IT".
Needless to say there has been about a day and a half of non-stop raining. Some pouring down rain, but always enough to keep your windsheild wipers on.... did a lot of driving this holiday, okay well Josh did a lot of driving in my Civic.
Honestly it was a good holiday, a few things didn't happen the way i would have liked, but everything always turns out in the end. My family... is absolutely nuts... crazy, loud, obnoxious etc... but its my family and honestly when i was a kid, all i remember is that there was always a big to do about who was sitting where at the table. But there was never a scheduling of things. Because everyone was right there at grandma's house. Now, between my father and his side (grandma and grandpa) (who live in Mint Hill also), my mother, and my sister... there is never just one gathering where you hang out all day and eventually everything gets done. There has to be seperate get togethers and it has to fit in to everyone else's schedule. Things get missed every year and I long for the days when we could all be together. Where mom and grandma where in the kitchen with my aunt laura and the guys... i don't really know what they did, my oldest sister set the table with help from my aunt Jeanne, and us kids would play in the basemet. there are several pictures of all of these get togethers in the family album... which has mostly been pieced out and given to whomever really cares for the picture. So divorce... where it may be right for the two married, it always makes life harder for the children. and i'm sure for the adults as well, since they can only spend a small amout of time with their family before they have to leave and go to the ex(husbands or wifes) house.
Breakfast is ready again. I'm ending on this note.
