Almost Abandoned At 15

I feel so bad.  I've been so busy today that I didn't even have time to celebrate my baby's birthday. Austin turned 15 years old today.  As it is accustomed in the Burney home, if your birthday is during the school/work week, you get a cake (or cupcakes) and one gift.  The big birthday bash is always held on Saturday.  But instead of the usual, I shipped my baby off to spend time with her cousins.
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Lon's 40th Birthday: I Think I Got Him Good!

He still won't admit it, but I surprised him big time!  Lon thought his 40th birthday was over last Wednesday night when he blew out the flames on the two tie-dyed digits on his mini chocolate birthday cake.  He had no clue that I was still setting the wheels in motion for his surprise birthday dinner at his favorite restaurant, the Jacksonville Mill House or properly named the Mill House Steakhouse.
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Some Real Therapy

I say it all the time.   Writing is therapy for me.  It helps me to relax and get my thoughts out in the open.  But as much as I love it, it doesn't come close to the therapeutic experience I had this weekend.  The whole weekend was great.  I've been too busy to post everything I did, but I want to share a little with you before I go to bed.
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NO BIRTHDAY WISH FOR YOU!

Today is the official start of "birthday season" for me. On this exact day, next month, I will be wrapping up Kingston's birthday celebration and looking forward to a break. 

This year, everyone is celebrating a milestone.  Lon is turning 40 on April 13th; Austin will be 15 on April 21st,  and Kingston will be 10 on May 2nd.  I'm so excited by the fact that they have this connection that I MUST act on it.  

But of course, I'm already getting grief from Lon. He doesn't want me to do anything for him.  Now, what kind of wife and mother would I be if I didn't call all of his family and friends together to celebrate such a huge milestone?  I still can't believe I've known this man since he was a little scraggly boy.  I've got to do something.  I already know what I want to do - just got to set it in motion.  It won't be huge, but I refused to just let it be another day.  This is one birthday wish he won't be getting! 

We argued about it the whole way home after a day of flea-market hunting and computer shopping with his mom.  I was going over all the details of the kids birthdays, which are about 10 days apart.  I went on and on, and he agreed with everything.  I closed out the conversation with "but first, I gotta get through your big day, " and that's when the music stopped.

He wants me to focus on the kids and worry about him later.  He reminded me that we still have two summer camps and football to pay for, which would be coming up right after "birthday season."  I totally understand where he's coming from, but I have a  plan to make it all work.  That's all I can say right now.

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Random Spontaneous Evening

I had a pretty uneventful day yesterday.  I did the same thing I do everyday. I went to my second job.  I worked for five hours.  I ate lunch… and I worked some more.   It wasn't until I headed to my first job (taking care of my family) that all the excitement started to happen.  

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Just One Of Those Days

I have been having a really funky past couple of days.  I'll start with today and then back-track.  Lon and I took a couple of days off work to spend with the kids.  They are on spring break this week.  We got up early this morning and just took our time getting ready to hang out for the day.  Lon did the some last minute work on a video project while I made breakfast.  Kingston had a friend stay over last night, so I wanted to make sure he had something to eat before shipping him off.   
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Blossoming Spring Cleaning

It was such a beautiful day on Saturday that we combined cleaning the garage with a little gardening.  Ok, so there was more gardening than garage cleaning.  Lon and I did a little shopping before we got started on the garage. Every where we went, we saw people buying plants and flowers for their yards.  
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