Open letter to the little gray tabby cat

That lives in my neighborhood and comes to my house every night......

Little gray cat, you're effecting my sleep. Almost every night. You drive my cat absolutely crazy. Bandit starts waiting by the front door at sunset. And every night, after dark, this little gray cat shows up and Bandit flips his lid. Banging on the side lights, crashing in the blinds, meowing at the top of his lungs. Sometimes this goes on for HOURS per night. Last night it started about 10:30, right before I turned out the lights. I heard him again at 5:30 this morning. Were they going at it through the glass all night long????

Bandit's a big, fat cat. We don't call him "the Sheriff" for nothing. One of these nights, I'm letting him out there on your gray ass. Then maybe you'll quit showing up on my porch.

Please go home, so we can all get some sleep.

You would think

With all the posting I've been doing lately that I would have had SOMETHING to talk about today. But, I've got nothing. We kept it low key today.

I did convince my parents to come up tomorrow instead of Friday. I guess the pity act still works at 32. ha ha My mom knew I was lonely and didn't want to wait one more day. So Grammy and Pop will be here tomorrow in time for dinner. :)

Tomorrow is the Halloween carnival at Will's school. He's wearing his new Halloween shirt ($7 Walmart special) and he's taking his costume, too. I'm sure he'll have a blast! I'll be grocery shopping and cleaning the house.

He's arrived

Just wanted to let family know that I heard from Todd. He's arrived and settled in the country ending in -stan. :) So much for the worries about the weather - it was only 4 degrees colder there than here.

He says there are no windows in the building at all. At least it'll be dark when he's sleeping - ha ha. They're doubled up - he's sharing a room with another guy.

It was 7 am there and he was off to the chow hall before briefings for the morning and all is well. He'll call again when he can. They're allowed 2 fifteen minute phone calls per week.

Couple pictures for Todd

Todd and I started a project on Saturday before he left. I finished it today, so I thought I'd post a few pictures for him to see when he logs on.

Everyone else can pay no mind. :)

This is our play room, which isn't much of a play room right now. On Saturday it was wall to wall junk. But we purged a lot of stuff and cleaned up. I worked 1/2 the day to get this room finished.

Once Will's furniture arrives for his bedroom, his toys will be moved back in here. The bed is made because we have company coming. It'll go back to being a couch soon.

Will kept asking when he'd get his playroom back. I'm so glad he can go in there again.

Diaper bag dilemma

I'm pining for a new diaper bag. But I just can't decide which one I want. Anyone have a recommendation?

These are the 2 I'm in love with, but I just can't choose. Maybe I need both. ha ha


They're both pretty pricey, so I'm not hopeful that I'd actually get both. ;)

But if anyone wants to know what I REALLY want for this little guy, it's this:



A Moby Wrap in turquoise. :) :)

We were "boo-ed" tonight

Someone rang our doorbell and took off about 7:30. It scared me to death, because no one comes to the door after dark. So I peeked outside and I saw a bag and a piece of paper on the front porch. I immediately knew what it was.

Will was thrilled to death. He was so excited to get Halloween from some "sneaky friends". Tomorrow I'll run out and get what we need to "boo" two more neighbors. :)

We survived our first night

I was worried that Will would start waking up a lot last night since Todd was gone. Thankfully, he slept all night long. I let him stay up a bit late last night since he took a late nap that turned into getting up at 6:30. So we stayed up until 9:30 last night. I know, bad mommy. But it was pretty good. We had a late dinner and then snuggled on the couch.

He got to talk to Todd on the phone for a minute and that made him happy.

He went to bed with minimal fuss and argument about 9:40. I never heard another peep. He came and crawled into bed with me at 7:30.

Since we didn't go anywhere yesterday, I am dying to get out of the house today. We're going to Kroger to get a few groceries and to refill one of my many prescriptions.

I'll be busy this afternoon trying to recreate Will's Christmas list. It seems his daddy threw away the piece of paper that was Will's list. I just hope I can remember what was on it.