Weekend madness
So in the midst of relishing a child-free evening and morning (YES!!! She spent the night away from home!), I totally forgot that there was a big Obama rally in Big City on Saturday, which I had been thinking of attending. Reports are that 1200 people showed up, while 300 people showed up at a McCain/Palin rally. Some pics are here, here, here, and here, with a grump from Mudflats about the comparative coverage in Big City’s newspaper.
Then, having reveled in sleeping inordinately late, I foolishly agreed to a double-sleepover: I would pick up the girls, bring them home, and K. would spend the night here.
So there was referee-ing to be done, and careful measuring of soda pop into equal amounts, and much popcorn made, and lugging of kid tents up into bedrooms for the night, and then back down to the family room for the next morning, and watching while they managed to drain the Barbie Jeep battery to nothing, and then being rolled around in the kid tent as they attempted to hold me hostage so K. didn’t have to go home…
Then I had peace and quiet while OmegaDad took the dotter out and about. Yay! And, to put me into a cheerful mood, I watched the Asian and European stock markets plummet.
Tonight, we’re supposed to have a real snowfall, with 2 inches by tomorrow a.m. and another 4 inches by this time tomorrow afternoon.
(A quick note: Are you guys seeing my RSS feed in Bloglines? I know a number of my regular reads are showing up as the li’l ol’ red exclamation point, bah. Anyway, I’m seeing a serious drop-off and trying to figure out if it’s a technical glitch.)
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