THE MONDAY MORNING MESS
The weekend was crazy eventful and exhausting. Saturday morning was our 4th Eastburg Color Guard Tricky Tray of the season. Which means we were up at 6AM. The wife took command of what I like to call the Early Deployment, she was out of the house at 6:30 with the 3 girls, 1 got dropped at practice two went to the lab for blood work they needed to complete their yearly physicals, she dropped them at practice afterwards and came back up the mountain around 8 for the 2nd assault. Team 2,Cave Boy, Grandpa, and the Boyfriend, and me as its leader, had been busy eating breakfast, cleaning up the kitchen and piling all the Tricky Tray supplies in the mud room. We all headed out right on time and were setting up at the High School by 8:45. The Tricky Tray was pretty successful the Parents Association raised about $700 and more importantly we saw a lot of support from friends and family.It was great to see Little Johnnie And Cass, Buggsy's gang, and my Sister, her husband and their 2 kids(who I will mention a lot, so we can call that group of family the C Clan). After the Tricky Tray the C Clan came back to our house.
The plan was that my girls would babysit their kids and we would go out for dinner for my Wifes birthday. My sister really wanted to go to this Steakhouse at the Mt. Airy casino and well who wouldn't want to try and win some money on their birthday. So we got there at 7 and our dinner reservations were not till 10.(thanks Bill for getting us a reservation at all). We had set aside $400 to bring with us. At 8 PM. we were down to a $140. I told my Wife that it was time to slow down or we were gonna run outta money. So we found my sister and her husband playing 3 card poker at table. My wife only ever plays slots. We sat and watched my Brother-in-Law rack up a healthy pile of chips, including a straight flush that pays out 40 to 1 ,and then my sister hit 3 of a kind which pays out at 30 to 1. So they spotted my wife a few chips and she hit triple 8's. By the time we left that table everyone was feeling happy. Then we sat down at another winning table to eat at Reds Steakhouse. The food at Reds was incredible a 22oz. porterhouse steaks some steamed broccoli a glass of red wine, onion soup, rolls with honey butter. My wife had the fillet with a red wine mushroom sauce that was out of this world. My wife then got the text that my brothers wife was headed to the birthing room to have her baby. Their 3 year old son was dropped off at our house and my 3 teenage daughters were now watching 3 kids under the age of 3. AWESOME JOB GIRLS! Cave Boy went to Grandpa's house
At about 11 PM.. I could be found in the middle of Mt. Airy casino, standing behind my wife screaming at a slot machine “KEEP GOING COME ON ONE MORE ...YES ONE MORE - YES ONE MORE – ONE MORE HAHAHA” She hit the jackpot $1501.00! She was so excited I thought she was gonna cry. People we didn't know came over to congratulate her. I ran to tell my sister. We have never won anything close to that much money. The rest of the night is a little fuzzy due to the amount of celebratory Jack and Cokes. We left the casino with $1600. My Sister-in-Law had a baby. We left cause my middle Daughter text me saying that my nephew, Headbutt, would not stop crying for his Daddy. When we got home I settled Headbutt down by explaining the situation to him. It went something like this:
Me – Headbutt knock it off. You dont need to cry like a little girl.
HB – I wanna go home!
Me – You cant Mommy and Daddy are at the hospital getting your brother out.
HB – Dont care I'm going to my house.
Me – Theres nobody at your house
HB – I go alone
Me – I'm not gonna let you be alone. Go to sleep.
HB – FINE!
In 3 minutes the kid was out cold. 5 minutes later so was I
Sunday Morning I got up just fine ,no headache, 8 AM. Go me. 2nd fund raiser of the weekend would begin in 6 hours. I came upstairs to Headbutt bouncing up and down on the couch with my sisters 2 year old Mr Dinosaur. Though their own negotiation, my 3 girls decided that my middle daughter would stay home from the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and help my wife with the preparations for the Lia Sophia Jewelery Party. We got the house cleaned up - the coffee brewing - my Brother stopped by to get Headbutt, who was now having so much fun he didn't want to go with his Dad, so that he could go meet his new brother, my brother-in-law and daughter started making meat balls and sausage for dinner - I ran to the supermarket to get drinks and paper towels, by the time I got back my In-Laws were here, then my Brother-in-Law ran to the supermarket to get cold cuts and bread. Then my wife's friend showed up with her husband and their 2 year old and all her jewelery stuff. My Aunt, my step father, my mother her 3 kids(I'll explain this one in a larger post), some of my wifes friends and a few neighbors...time to abandon house, we took the kids and ran across the street to my brothers house and his swing set.
Kids and a big yard and a swing set is about a perfect setting for me. I loved watching my girls and Cave Boy run around our yard when they were growing up. All the friends that have come over and thrown footballs and baseballs and water balloons and played tag – rode bikes...these are some of our best memories. So yesterday from that point of view was priceless. My 3 little sisters running around my brothers yard with basketballs, yelling look what I found Joe Joe, hide mine behind this rock and bury mine under these leaves and all the kids going down the slide and the feeling of family and friends all laughing under the sunshine of a warm spring day. Grandpa brought Cave Boy home and he ran over to play - the girls got back from the parade and they came over too. My brother, exhausted from not sleeping but excited from just having his 2nd son, returned home from the hospital with Headbutt to get some rest. When he saw everyone playing in his yard he had to be thinking “just go home”, but he put little Headbutt down and started playing with everyone too. Hitting wiffel balls for all the little kids to chase. He let his dog out to run and all the kids screamed and tried to catch him. It was really a lot of fun. As the sun started to go down and the temperature got chilly Cave Boy and I were the last ones outside, throwing the football till dinner was ready. Almost everyone stayed for dinner. Camped out around the coffee table in our living room was my mom, aunt, wife, sister, and daughters. At the dinning room table my step father and 3 little sisters, my wifes jewelery friend, her husband and daughter. Standing in the kitchen my brother-in-law, my father, my son and me. By the time everyone left and we got cleaned up it was 10PM. The good news is that we raised more than $1000 for guard in the last 2 days. The great news is that my wife and I now have enough money for our trip to Ohio at the begining of April and for our mini vacation to Wildwood NJ.at the end of April. My family has been blessed with a new member and everyone is healthy. What a week!
The latest Cave Kid
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