I survived two hours of the noise and lights. DS10 loved it. He was totally engrossed in doing all the activities with his friends. They were so active (climbing, running, jumping, etc) that they were covered in sweat most of the time. ANYway, it is over with and I won't be sad if I never go back there. I have a headache and my ears have this weird roaring sound happening even though I'm now in a quiet environment. ` The good outcome of this experience is DS10 made another homeschool friend. One by one, we are meeting other homeschool boys his age that lives in this area. All but one of them have their own phone so they do a lot of texting with each other. I monitor the texting conversations and I know the other Mom's do too. DS10 is frequently asking how to spell words so all this texting does have an educational purpose. THAT's my story and I'm sticking with it. LOL
DGD7 is here for the 4th time this week. DD dropped her off to stay with Papa while I was gone. DGD7 will spend the night.
On my way home from town, I dropped some items DMom requested at her home. Move Free, 120 slices of cheese (for her dogs), and a gallon of ice cream. I feel bad that I can't stay at DMom's home until she gets tired of talking every time I go there. DMom will talk NON-STOP for a couple hours before she gets tired of talking. Last week our phone company lost a cell tower and it was causing all kinds of weird phone problems. During a phone conversation with DMom, my phone became unable to talk. I could hear DMOM talking but for some reason, anything I said was muted. DMom talked for 28 minutes before she noticed. REALLY! DH and I were listening to DMom and I kept trying to talk to her. I was hollering into the phone MOM! MOM! MOM, CAN YOU HEAR ME?? Nope, DMom couldn't hear anything I said. DMom just kept on talking without a pause. DH and I looked at each other in panic at first but we decided she was fine. I thought about hanging up the phone but that felt rude so I just kept listening to her. She just kept on talking and talking. Eventually, DH & I busted out laughing at the absurdity of it. It wasn't really funny but laughter seemed to help us deal with it.
Must check out BOSCH. Thanks RR for the suggestion!