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Greetings from Nevada! I hope it’s been a great week.

It wasn’t a very restful Mother’s Day, but it was lovely. We spent most of the morning/afternoon at Ben’s Mom’s house. We had a brunch with his family and everyone brought different food. We made breakfast sandwiches and they were delicious! There were breakfast sandwiches, quiche, waffles, eggs, potatoes and a few other things. Overall, the food was delicious!

We headed home around mid-afternoon and I was able to relax some. I watched a movie with Isaiah, as it was his birthday after all. I did some laundry and a little bit of cleaning, which isn’t my idea of a terrific Mother’s Day, but I knew we were having people over the next weekend for Ben’s birthday and needed to get a jump start on things.

It was a busy work week for me as well. I had a presentation on journaling on Thursday that I was preparing for. I wasn’t overly stressed about it, but I wanted to do a good job, so it took longer than I thought it would.

My week was pretty normal other than that prep, and the presentation ended up going really well. There wasn’t much interaction with the group, but I got good feedback after the fact, so I’ll take it!

On Friday, the twins stayed home and worked on cleaning up the house while we went to Isaiah’s soccer games. After the games, I went to the store and then headed home to make cupcakes. Once they were made, I was beyond ready to crash.

Saturday morning, I was up fairly early, getting things ready for the party. Some last minute clean up things and the prepping the food. Ben’s best friend since diapers, who lives in Reno, traveled down with his family to attend the party. Ben didn’t know he was coming, so it was a nice surprise.

Antonio was able to distract Ben while I got them in the house and hiding in the game room. I told Ben I needed him to come see this thing in the game room that was weird.

He asked me if it was a creature and I said yes. He asked me if I was going to tell him about it before he walked in the room and I said no. He opened the door, asked me where it was and then noticed them. It was a very happy surprise.

They were able to spend the day hanging out with us and helped with some of the party prep. The party started around 4 p.m. and was a fun time. We had a couple waves of party people and it didn’t end up ending until after 1 a.m. I am way too old for that and will probably be absolutely useless on Sunday! The plan is to get together for breakfast but will probably end up actually being lunch. Then they head back to Reno and I plan to take a long nap!

Until next week, make it a great one!

Amy