Silas Marner....a thing of the past

As you have already noticed....the family book club never came to fruition. I read the first 3 chapters and thought I was going to slit my wrists...lol. As my sister put it; "It was the best cure for insomnia!"

So, Silas was thrown under the bus. Unfortunately for my son, that is not an option as it is a required read in his British Literature class - HA...stinks to be him!

On to more interesting thoughts now...

Only 8 more days until we pick our son up from Fort Knox!!! WOO HOO! We all sure have missed him these past 11 weeks. He will be done with boot camp tomorrow but then will spend the next week doing mundane tasks...like...cleaning, cleaning, oh, and did I mention cleaning. His dad, younger brother and I will be driving to KY next week to pick him up. His leave is just over two weeks...15 days to be exact. We are sharing his time off with his fiance and her family in Pennsylvania. Sharing is not always easy; even for adults. We realize though that his heart is now with his sweet young bride to be so mom must let go and let him be with his "one true love".
Trust me....I'm not that old that I don't remember what it was like to be young and in love. XOXO

Here's another exciting bit of news:

We are having a "friend" visit us for a few days soon. This friend has offered to help us in moving our business to a single location. Yeah! Many hands make light work and we can use all the hands we can get right now. We are currently running our business out of three locations; it has been a bit of a logistics nightmare. Plus, one of the locations is our home. Working out of ones home can have some benefits (no fighting the traffic to get to the office, no required business attire (one doesn't even have to dress if one doesn't want to..lol), multi-tasking (work, laundry, making dinner)) but working from home also has some drawbacks; limited privacy, inability to park ones own car in ones own garage due to shelves of product and no longer having the use of a once beautifully finished basement (again due to shelves of product).

So....this "friend" is going to come in handy. Why the quotations you ask? Well, this is no ordinary friend but a "special" friend of our daughters. By special I'm not implying special-ed (well, as far as I know...lol) but rather in the sense of extra-special male companion. Yes, you heard right....this young man in question is coming to stay at our house and has agreed to subject himself to the bosses (aka "the dad") work-a-holic tendencies . Our daughter will not be here. She still has one more week of college before Christmas break so we will have the "friend" all to ourselves....to do with as we please....for instance:

• grill him of his intentions
• examine his work ethic
• what are his household habits
• will he eat moms cooking
• you know, all the important stuff

It's a "parents-of-a-daughter" dream come true.

** Disclaimer ** Don't worry daughter....we promise to go easy on him......

+ evil laughter +



We have never formally met this young man but from the countless chat sessions, web-cam discussions and phone calls we have had, he seems to be a fine, polite and upstanding citizen. If we find anything to the contray after this visit I will have to edit this blog and deny ever having seen him....we do own guns and have 44 acres on which a buried body would never be discovered....again with the + evil laughter +.

No seriously, I'm sure everything will go smoothly. About the only thing that may go awry would be his changing his mind about our daughter due to her "crazy" parents. It is a package deal you know....love the daughter and you have to at least tolerate her family....lol.

Keep tuned...I'll let you know if he survives!

Until next time,

The MOM