I am beat

What a weekend! Yesterday we went to Matt's company picnic at Wendy Park which is near Edgewater Park in downtown Cleveland. It was a great place for a picnic. You could see Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga River, the Cleveland skyline, all kind of freighter boats and planes coming in and out of town. The food was great and they had great giveaways for the kids to play with. John and James both got to fly a kite - we have been wanting to do that with them but have never had the chance. Last night it was almost 11 before I got to bed as Matt and I enjoyed people watching on our front porch and then our next door neighbor came home from a walk and talked to us for quite a while. With the picnic making nap time crazy we decided to go to church on Sunday instead of Saturday. I was hoping to go to the first one but Patrick slept a little later than normal.

I think I had 2 or 3 short naps today but I still am beat. Tonight to cap off our weekend we went to the Willowick Lakefront Park for a concert. We have been attending them for the past 3 weeks. The band that played tonight was pretty good. They played mostly summer and beach themed songs - rather anything that you might use a steel drum in. John and I agree that we liked last weeks band the best - I think he like the polkas alot - thank you Wiggles for that influence. A nice lady came up to us at the intermission while we were packing up letting us know we are very lucky to have such a beautiful family and she enjoyed watching us interact very much. It is so funny how we hear that most times when we are in public. Of course when we get home and Patrick is being difficult about getting his jammies on Matt cracks the comment "That lady should see how lucky we are now!" LOL!

On Friday I talked to my boss at Pfizer and he offered me a part time position with no job share. I think the offer was there because he is going on a sebattical for 6 months. It looks like I will be turning it down as it won't make sense to work between the cost of childcare, gas and my benefits (I would still have full benefits with working 3 days). I think this will be best as we won't have to flip a coin when the kids are sick and they won't have to get used to someone new coming into the house.

Ok - I'm off to bed - another busy week on tap - John has watershow practice on Tuesday and Friday evening, I have to run out to Mayfield Heights tomorrow for my virtual job, I'm taking the boys to the circus on Thursday since we scored 4 free kids tickets and oh yea we are going to visit my parents next weekend. The kids will probably realize Thursday or Friday because there is no way I'm going to try and secretly pack their bags. It was too hard last time.