Autumn

It’s, as usual, been over a week since I last posted. As I’d mentioned in my previous entry, Thursday was definitely a hectic day.

I had an appointment I had to go to, then I rushed back to work and stayed for the Prime Time event. It helped me unwind, hanging out with my co-workers. Border Buttermilk, Ueta, Kohnami Sushi and Palenque Chicken catered the event, so that was awesome. I even got to take my babe 2 huge plates, heh. I dropped the plates off, rushed to pick up the kiddos and we went to Burger King for some sweets. It was so awesome just sitting there and talking with these little people ♥. I look around at them and soak them and their personalities all in. As much as it sucks, they’re growing and turning into amazing people. It’s kind of bittersweet in a way :*).

I dropped them off and since I had them the weekend (yay!) I let Emily stay overnight. I hadn’t been letting her stay because when I do, it just feels like I don’t see her enough. I hate it.

I came back home and my love was already here. He connected his phone to the spiffy new system and we listened to songs outside on the porch. The weather’s been so nice and cool at night. We danced to “Amen”, “Que Vida La Mia”, “Te Quiero, Te Amo” and others. We laughed as he twirled me around and we sang to each other. I giggled, “I feel like I’m at an 8th grade dance!” and he said, “You make me feel like a little kid”. It was perfect ♥.

Jr. came over and asked what was on the agenda. We decided to go to Cigar Bar, which I’d never been to and we had a few drinks to unwind. We hadn’t actually gone out in months and it was kinda nice to :). I’d never had a Chamoygarita, or whatever it was called, but man it was good!

I felt pretty good the next day. Work went by fast and I picked up the kiddos after work. We had a pretty lazy evening. I love when the kids are here and they’re just all strewn about hehe.

My babe went to work, I fed the kiddos and I had an optometrist appointment so I did that. I finally got contacts after forever, but since I haven’t actually worn them since I was like, 14, it took a long time to successfully get the darn things in!

I went to pick up Rosie’s gift at Bath & Body Works. Michelle had been busy for 3 weeks planning a surprise birthday party for her and I couldn’t think of anyone else more deserving. I rushed to get groceries after B&BW, made dinner, my babe got home and we went to the party for about an hour. Briana and the kids were coming over to visit so we got back as fast as we could. It was great just sitting outside with the little ones and catching up :).

We had a lazy day on Sunday and visited the pumpkin patch! I’d been wanting to do that for YEARS!

The first attempt didn’t go too well. The hay bales were right in the sun! Look at poor Emmos LOL:

We took several, but this was by far my favorite:

I’ve already gotten it printed in poster size, heh. I actually have to pick it up sometime today!

Of course, the place didn’t take debit cards (get with the times, people!) so we had to scratch getting pumpkins that day :(. I had to drop the kiddos off with Mario anyway, so they weren’t going to get a chance to decorate them anyway. We’re planning to do the whole pumpkin thing with them next Sunday. I’m thinking painting for the girls, carving for the boys ♥.

We were totally going to have a munchies and movie night, so we got goodies (not too many since I FINALLY fit into my size 5-junior pants again!) and set up the Netflix in the living room. We ended up catching up on XFactor. Darn you, Michelle, for introducing me to the show :P. We’re addicted!

I can’t remember much from Monday (same ol’ at work) and Mario dropped Emily off to me that evening while we were visiting Gramma. I made us all dinner and then we sat down to watch “Paranormal Activity 2”, which neither of us had watched before. Emmos ended up falling asleep on the sofa so Jorge took her to her bedroom where she actually STAYED the entire night! It had been a while since she didn’t sneak off to Mom’s room in the middle of the night. She used to do so well just a few weeks ago =\.

We were kind of jumpy after the movie and we chatted about scenarios happening in the house as I went outside with Jorge so he could have a cigarette. I saw, out of the corner of my eye, something move the blind. I told Jorge this and he said it was my mind playing tricks on me. He laughed and said, “Watch us get locked out”, like the girl did in the movie. He finished his cigarette, we get up…and lo and behold, we’re locked out LOL. Mom’s on the other side of the house so we have to trek around the very dark house. We’re knocking like crazy and ringing the doorbell. She turns off her TV and we about flip out. About 5 seconds later she opens the door and asks what the heck we’re doing outside. I ask her if she locked the back door. She says yes. We’re relieved it was her and not something else. The next day, though, she tells me she locked the garage door, not the porch door…so…we still don’t know who did it. (I think it was Jorge LOL.)

Can’t remember anything too exciting from throughout the week. Had lunch with Shells at Espi’s one day we had to stay through lunch for one of her meetings. Had my usual dinner with the kiddos, this time at McD’s and we took Vicki along with us. I was seriously surprised that they agreed to let me take her. She’s so sweet and they all behaved wonderfully, probably because Vicki was there, hehe.

The boys talked openly with me about the divorce that day. It was brought up out of nowhere; well, sort of–Eenan mentioned that a lot of his friends’ parents were divorcing and Jaylen brought up that he didn’t cry very much on the day we told him (the day Mario decided to drop the bomb) because he’d had a dream about us divorcing a while back and he thinks he did all his crying that night, aww :'(. And Eenan said he wasn’t surprised because we’d been fighting so much prior to the day “we” told him. My poor dudes. I’m so proud of them, though. They’re so mature and have been so strong through the whole thing.

It’s been getting dark earlier so we didn’t get a chance to go to the park =\. I dropped them off, got home and caught up with my babe a bit and then crashed out.

The next morning at work was spent dropping off fliers for my upcoming event, sort of trying to recruit companies. My first stop I ran into Mayra! I hadn’t seen her in forever and we caught up a bit. I really hope we can get a lunch date planned soon :).

I finished up and met Jorge and Rick at Espi’s (love that place, heh). I was out of work by 4 and went to the bank, then came home and did a mani & pedi on Emily and then we watched TV till Mario picked her up :(.

I caught up on XFactor, made dinner and my babe and his boys got here. We chilled out a while and then Jr. and Rolie stopped by. I called it a night sort of early since a half-glass of wine made me sleepy, grr.

My babe left to work the next morning (boo) and I slept in a bit. Got up and made us all breakfast and I got ready since Briana and the kids were coming over. We ate, did a little foamie project with the kids:

Then we went to Michael’s, Floreria Lee and Walmart to get supplies for the girls’ tutus. I found the little terracotta pots I wanted to get for a project with the kids all summer but I didn’t get them. I should have!

I made the girls’ tutus when we got back. Went to get groceries and made baked chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes for dinner. Briana and the kiddos left, Jorge played video games with the kiddos, they went to bed and then we sat out on the porch doing our crosswords :). It was such a nice day. The only thing missing we my babies :(.

Today was just a lazy day, as a Sunday should be :). I made us all eggs (different ones for everyone: scrambled, boiled, deviled eggs LOL) and we ate out on the porch. It was a beautiful morning. I fixed some stuff up around the site while my babe watched his football. Briana and the kiddos came over and we chilled out and then Jorge and I went to HEB to get BBQ stuff. When we got back the kiddos and I decorated outside. Mario brought Emily to me and my other kiddos stayed a few minutes. Poor Alaethia was wailing that she wanted to stay and I so wanted her to :'(. Too bad she has school in the morning. I can’t express how much I miss them :(.

They left and we finished up with the food and enjoyed some awesome BBQ, the game and then “The Walking Dead” on the big screen :). I read Emmos a story (Olivia, her favorite), sang her favorite lullaby (“Morning Lullabies”) and she was out like a light! I made a slight noise as I was tip-toeing out but I told her I was leaving the doors open and we were in the next room and she nodded and fell back asleep. I’m so proud of her!

I’m having to rush through this entry since my love wants me to finish up already LOL. Goodnight!