The Morning After

So please forgive the mess. This is the party aftermath. Yeah, this is what I'll be spending my day on.

So the turnout from Dalton's birthday party was ridiculous. Good, people love my child ridiculous, but still unbelievable. He's the most spoiled child in the world.

I posted these pictures of my house, torn apart from the party, for illustrative purposes. Here you have, respectively: My kitchen, shot from the living room; my living room shot from the kitchen, the foyer/entry room shot from the living room, and Dalton's room shot from the entry room. Oh, there's a half naked boy in there too.

What I'm illustrating is my house is fun-sized. It's PERFECT for the three of us and Jessie. Enough room to spread out, small enough to shout across the house for favors. Perfect. We can easily entertain two or three even if it's a little cozy.

Yesterday we had 30(!) people in this house. In just these areas, well, and the front porch. The definition of insane.

We had a great time. I'm really proud that I didn't totally over-achieve. Ordered the cake and some pizzas. Purchased veggie tray and meat/cheese tray. Made some rotel dip. Went off
great and I wasn't cooking for 8 hours. Anyone
who knows me knows that I normally would balk
at shortcutting in such a way. I'm so proud I stuck to my guns about making it easy.

Dalton got so much amazing stuff, all of which was very thoughtful as to what he's into. He loves all of his gifts and is still bouncing wall to wall playing with everything he got yesterday and earlier this week at my parents'. He really is a lucky, loved little boy. It makes me feel great that we've built a community around him that cherishes him so.

So today I'll be trying to pick up the pieces and restore order around here. After all of this party planning I really do have a bit of fire under my ass
to throw a grownup party, just for the hell of it.

My only regret is I got so busy with the party running that I really didn't get to cherish my birthday boy. He was sort of in his own world with all of the activity and other children, though, so I don't think he noticed. D loved having other kids here. I really need to get us out more to find kids his age to play with more often. Of course, I finally want to start going to the park and other activities when it starts to get cold. I'm lazy all summer.

So today I clean. Must do Dalton's room and the kitchen, along with figuring out what the hell to make for dinner out of the thousands of grains and little else populating my kitchen. *sigh* Probably will try to cheap it out for the week to make up for the extravagance of the party. It was worth it.

Dum dum dumb

What happens when I get in a Fall kind of mood . . .

I'm totally overachieving on dinner tonight:

-Oven Fried Pork Chops
-Hot Apples
-Green Beans
-Mac and Cheese
-Buttered Rolls
-Pumpkin Pie

Yeah, I'm nuts. But it's cool weather and all fallish. I'll post pictures once dinner is on the table.

We're on Youtube now!!!!!!!!!!

You can find our channel with family videos at www.youtube.com/keeleymcgrew ! To celebrate, here's Dalton dancing with a frog (that's his back with the tiger tail.) Watch for more videos!!!!



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Paul is finishing up the Amber Spyglass at this very moment . . . . Paul, if you're reading this before you've finished, stop reading now. I don't want to spoil a thing. Or if anyone hasn't read it yet I'd advise the same. Seriously, stop now. Stop!



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I don't know if God has died yet. I loved the way this part was written. I want it to happen already so I have someone to discuss this with. I've been waiting for MONTHS! Hurry up and die already, God!

ETA: He missed it! I think he got so caught up in the main story that he missed the passage. ARGGGGHHH! Must discuss!

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Random Random Random

I'm starting to fall back on the blogging again resolution. But opening a new post and staring at the cursor does me no good. So here's all of the uneventful details.

Went to Nebraska last weekend. It was fun in the very tame way. Nothing really big or of note going on, but great to get some time with Lindsay to just hang. Ate some amazing very bad for me food. Like a deep-fried grilled cheese. Just let that sink in. I'll wait . . . . .


Yeah! And there were also these things called Runza's that were buns stuffed with ground beef and cabbage. I like Nebraska food! Otherwise, Mizzou won, Dalton stole the show with cuteness and also managed to have awful meltdowns every 30 seconds. I hope my child isn't a brat forever.

Off tonight to go play with string at the yarn shop. I need to remember to buy 4 DPN's to finish a friend's gift. So I'll try to remember that. Excited to go hang out with new friends and relax and get some knitting time. I really need to get my needles moving in order to be ready for Christmas.

My mother being in the hospital bums me out. But not for me, for her. She's been fighting so long and so hard, she deserves to be getting well. I hate that she's had this set back. I'm glad to hear she's committed to being ready before she allows herself to be discharged. That is a very very good thing. Only being able to talk to her in ten minute bursts is awful though. I really feel like I'm not able to support her in the way she needs. The doctors seem to be saying that discharge this weekend is possible, provided she's ready. I'd go home, but there's little point: visitation is only for about an hour a day, and it's a two hour round trip from my parent's house to get there. At least working on her Christmas present makes me feel like I'm doing SOMETHING.

I need to grab my camera and post a video of D from this past weekend. I promise I'll do it a bit later.