Anything But Gray

This weekend is FULL of birthdays…

Zak, Ceci, my Auntie are today.
Wanda is tomorrow.

Today we are going into Boston for a big family reunion. Our family has done this before and the last time was when I was pregnant with Ben. So this will be the first time Ben will meet my very large, extended family. I'm excited. I really enjoy these reunions and it's wonderful to catch up with our adult cousins whom I remember very fondly from my childhood. I feel a little bit bad for Zachary, he has never met most of these people (a few of them attended our wedding…) and he has to go spend his birthday with them. Poor guy…He isn't complaining and he is okay with going, but I know he'd much rather be somewhere else. LOL The reunion is also a surprise 60th bday party for my auntie. It should be fun. After the reunion, we'll come home and do the cake and ice cream thing for Zachary and open a couple of small gifts that we got and just hang out and have a few drinks. Shelly might come up and Steve might come up too, that would be cool. We'll see!

For the first time in about 7 years, I had to buy birthdays cards. Ceci, Zak, Wanda and my auntie. My art stuff isn't unpacked and so I couldn't make cards. I have to be honest, it was kind of fun to go through Hallmark and read the cards, I haven't done that in YEARS! lol. But I am a little disappointed that I had to buy cards. It's just so not me….but I know everyone will understand. Plus, a couple of the cards are really funny….so maybe that will make up for them being store bought! ha! I haven't gotten any of the cards in the mail yet, which is so unlike me too. <sigh> Man, I am pissing myself off these days. lol.  I will be so happy when life settles down and EVERYTHING is unpacked and we get a routine going….I haven't talked to J in weeks…I haven't talked to Kim or Danielle….I am late mailing birthday gifts and cards…..I haven't seen Dave and Wanda yet or my other friend Dave yet…James only once….I am really ready for life to get less hectic. I miss J, especially. When we don't get a chance to talk for this long….I feel somewhat unsettled and I don't like it. Some people I can go months without talking to and it's fine…I mean, I miss them and wish I had time to call, but it's not the same feeling as when I don't get a chance to talk to J. I honestly don't know how to describe it, the best way I have is it feels like something is out of place in my world…like I'm looking into a room and everything is all neat and orderly except one picture is slightly crooked. That would just bug my brain incessantly. Not talking to J is the same kind of feeling for me….it's just a "something's not quite right" feeling. So I am going to have to fit in a phone call to her soon. Before I go nuts. lol.

So I'm off to make sure kids get showered, camera batteries get charged, dvd player gets charged so the kids have something to do for the ride down and blah, blah, blah…all that good stuff.

Hopefully I'll have a ton of pics to post later!

Love you SO much!!!