Sunday Snippets

Our Week in Review

• I bought cedar fence slats and built seven beautiful raised garden beds.  Now to just get some dirt so I can get things planted.  All the stores are ripe with colorful flowers and vegetables just begging me to buy them.  
• Isaac took advantage of me having the refrigerator unlocked while I was making dinner and smeared BBQ sauce in our front room carpet. 
• My new neighbor Stacy invited the kids and I over for lunch.  She is so nice to us, she is a beautiful person inside and out. She has had no reservation in making us feel welcome. She went totally overboard too, she made a beautiful centerpiece that had fruit and chocolate dipped strawberries as well as chocolate dipped pretzels.  I felt sort of sheepish when I showed up with sliced oranges and apples in some old Tupperware. 
• I yelled at a pest control man.  I felt horrible after it was all said and done and I'm sure he thought I was a very nasty person.  When I was out in my backyard finishing building the last of my raised garden beds, Alivia informed me some one was at the door.  I had been in the backyard all morning and I hadn't bothered to put on all of my supportive underwear, if you know what I mean.  So I just told her to ignore the door.  But he refused to go away and was yelling through the door.  So I came in the house and shut the blinds, after all he must have been crazy to think I was going to answer the door for a perfect stranger with out my husband being home.  He walked towards the side of the house so I continued closing the blinds, hoping he'd catch the hint, when to my utter horror I found him staring in my back door window right at me.  he started yelling to me about how I wouldn't answer the door out front so he let himself in my back yard.  I opened the door a crack and yelled at him that we didn't have a pest control person and that I wasn't interested in paying him to be ours either.  He pulled me a very nasty face and stormed off.  After I calmed down and I was certain he had gone I opened my front door, he had sprayed around the front and sides of our home.  It got me thinking that who ever lived here before might have paid for services for the year and he was probably just doing his job.  I felt bad for yelling at him, but seriously, you don't let yourself into peoples private backyards and yell at them through a door, that's just not smart nor appropriate.  I'm already terrified of being robbed and unable to protect myself and our children from the wackos and thieves down here, while the Mr. is at work, so finding a stranger in my backyard staring and yelling at me through my windows terrified me. 
• I bought Dylan a brand new pair of shoes two or three weeks ago.  I noticed today that he has already popped both big toes out of the front of the shoes, I am not happy about that!
• I briefly turned on our AC.  It's getting really warm down here.