A Busy Weekend for the Webb Family

What a busy weekend! It is almost one of those weeks where you realize it's Monday morning which is about the furthest you can get from the next two day break you get to do the things you WANT to do and not have to be at work. Now I love my job and my boss is great but let's face it, there is just nothing at all like those days when you roll over feeling the sunlight on you and seeing as you open your eyes that it is filling the room only to look at the clock and see that it is 9:30! Those days are GREAT!! I had one of those days this weekend but I was really hoping for two with the week that I experienced last week! Last week as many of you know, we were blessed with the stomach flu which managed to make it through all four kids and I was READY for a break from sickness, kids, and kids with sickness! So Friday night I made plans to go out with a friend of mine from church. We went and had supper and really just enjoyed visiting! We had a great time and plenty of time left so we just decided that we would go to Wal-Mart. We loved looking around and just visiting as we walked up and down the aisles like kids who had never been there before! For those of you who have children, you realize just how long it's been since you really got to look at the things on the shelves and just take your time and enjoy the store. I know it sounds crazy but trust me, go sometime when you don't have the kids and you will find yourself in areas of that store that you didn't even know existed! Anyways, we made it home around 12:30 and were both very thankful for the fun evening out!
Saturday morning came however with quite a surprise and shock! Michael had left to go to the hayfield. Now haying is a very trying time for our family and while we aren't the type that need to spend every minute together, we do like to occasionally see Michael. We don't need him pouring over our every move but at least one meal a day and more than ten minutes of his time is something that we love having! During hay time, it is almost as if I am a single mother! Last year I helped him in the hayfield and we BOTH loved it. The work got done twice as fast and we got to spend the day together even though we were on different tractors it was nice to just be out there together getting the job done! This year however, has not been so easy and I have not had the opportunity to help him out the way I did last year so it has taken longer and we haven't seen each other but it's almost over now and things will get back to normal! So Saturday morning, Michael was up and gone early and had left a note that the kids were not to wake me but instead let me sleep until at least 9. Somewhere in the 8:30 neighborhood, the phone rang and Avery comes in to my room toting the phone shaking me and saying here mommy your friend is on the phone. That was okay and I wasn't mad but after talking to my friend for about five minutes, someone else beeped through on call waiting. The conversation went something like this........
Kim: " Hey, I just wanted to let you know that we are taking your child to the emergency room."
Me: "Okay can you tell me what happened"? (As I am jumping out of the bed and dressing as fast as I can so that I can get my other kids ready to go.
Kim: "Well, you know, fell out of a tree, hole in the chin, broken teeth, lot's of blood and Randy thought it would be best to bring 'em in".
Me: "Kim I just need for one second for you to know that Abby Jo spent the night with Lindy last night and until I finally am catching on, now mind you I haven't been up long, and I am just figuring out that you do not in fact have my child but instead you are talking about my Carson"!
Most of you know that me and Carson are buddies, it is no secret that he is by far my favorite Radcliff child and I will take him hands down any time no questions asked and he is often referred to as my child when talking with Kim. So without knowing that my actual daughter was not at my home, she had managed to scare the crap out of me as I am talking to her and trying to figure out why Lindy was with Kim at a garage sale and not on the soccer fields where Macy was playing! So after getting calmed down from that misunderstanding on my part and realizing that all of the children who were actually born to me were fine, I decided I was up anyways and there was no way I was going to sleep! So we started cleaning house. After a week of four sick kids, I couldn't wait to clean up all of those germs that were infesting the place! So after a day FULL of cleaning, we headed off to that nights football game and really enjoyed watching our kiddos play! We won the game and the boys were really excited! We then traded around some kids (which is a normal event...you can never go to a place, attend a function, and go home with the same kids you brought. For those of you who don't know this, it's illegal and could result in a huge fine of fit throwing followed by a lecture on how everyone else's parents are nicer than you are)! So we finally left the football stadium, got supper, headed home, swapped clothes, picked up Abby Jo from her friends house, and went to another couple's house to play cards. We had a lot of fun doing that too and it was nice to actually get some of that togetherness time I was talking about in.
After getting home late again, we decided that even if Michael was going to get up and head out early, I WAS NOT!!! So we unplugged the phones, set his alarm to go off for when he wanted up and fell fast asleep. The next morning when I rolled over and looked at the clock, I realized that it was 10:15 and the only thought I had about that was MISSION COMPLETE!!!!! One day I got to actually and fully sleep in and I was VERY happy about it. So I got up, had the kids whip up some eggs for their visitors and grabbed a bite to eat myself. And after another full day of cleaning finally got my house almost put back together but all of the laundry, dishes, floors, dusting, and all of that stuff is now completed!! So last night I went to the business meeting, came home, helped with the normal jammies, supper, baths, etc and put my sleepy kids to bed in their comfy beds all fitted with clean sheets and I set down to enjoy a little tv. It was a jam packed weekend full of fun times, lot's of cleaning, and many activities but now I think I need a vacation from the weekend!!