TGIM?

Wow.  We had quite the weekend here at the Average Mom’s homestead.  My father and step-mother came to visit for her birthday and anyone who knows my family knows that this combination is inevitably leading to Jim Beam, either in Manhattan or Old Fashionform.  This weekend will be remembered as the weekend of the Old Fashions.  Lots and lots of Old Fashions.  We enjoyed a fa-bu meal cooked by yours truly Saturday night: steamed lobster and sweet corn.  Yum. E.  (We had lobbers twice last week!  Seriously, who do we think we are?) Following our meal, we enjoyed Old Fashions, cream puffs and candles while my stepmother opened her presents.  We were also visited by one my husband’s friends from college who we used to see daily and who now rarely comes over.  It was really nice to catch up with him and I think he actually really hit it off  with my Dad, ex-hippie that he is.  Did I mention the Old Fashions? 

Before the gluttony of bourbon and crustacean, we had a really nice day at a local lake we found.  the lake was so clean you could walk out to your chest and still see your toes.  It was lovely and Josie had such a great time.  Nobody had as much fun as Merle, however.  My dog LOVES to swim.  He was so happy to be running free and retrieving sticks.  You would’ve thought we had brought him to Fire Island for the afternoon.  He exhausted himself and slept all. day. yesterday.

We did the same, lazing around on the couch and watching an embarrassing amount of TV (damn you Law & Order marathon!!).  I didn’t even clean one thing, I was so wiped-out.  Kristian didn’t do dishes and Josie was lifeless as well, though I suspect she was just tired from the lake, not from the Jim Beam.  All in all, it was worth it.  My parents are wonderful, loving people and they truly adore their grand daughter.  She, in turn, worships my stepmother (much to my own mother’s chagrin) and this weekend she played with Granddad for the first time.  He is usually overshadowed by his wife, in Josie’s eyes, and I know it used to hurt him a bit.  It was nice to see how he was that she was asking him to play with her.  He must have tossed her in the air 100 times.  I know his back will be paying for that today!   

After our weekend of gluttony and subsequent laziness, it was extremely difficult to get out of bed today.  I really think I could have slept hard until 11 or 12 but Josie climbed into our bed at 7:30am, snuggled up in arms between myself and Merle and asked if we were going to the lake again today.  I wish we were but I don’t think my liver can handle it.