Back again! And a contest!

We've had a week of rain, and then, last night, we got slammed with a nasty storm. Fortunately, once again, the worst of it went around us (not by much, though, to the south it was a matter of less than 15 miles). But I am not going to complain. I did get all of the mowing that didn't get done before the week-long rain fest hit, taken care of...just in time to get rained on last night. We're suppppposed to have another week or so of good sunny hot weather, so that will dry this up pretty quickly. I hope! I need to get around the garden with the mower, as well as weed that out very well...not to mention, finish mowing the backyard. 2 acres of yard takes a looong time with a push mower, that is for sure...

This weekend, we have the last of the children's birthdays. We do the "pick your dinner, pick your dessert" for birthdays around here. We're having hotdogs, macaroni and cheese, nacho cheese doritoes, and mountain dew. With a lemonade layer cake, with raspberry jam filling, with lemon frosting. Wish me luck. LOL.

Hopefully, we will have enough dry weather today and tomorrow, that I will be able to get to the yard 'stuff', and then move on...I have so much to get done around here, it isn't funny. It's that old saying, There are three things--time, money, energy. You generally only have two. And it is never the same, lol.

Right now, I've got time and energy, but no money. In another week, I'll have money, but no time OR energy. LOL Maybe the energy, we'll see. But I can almost promise I won't have the time, what with getting caught up outside...

In better news, speech therapy seems to be working for the boys, so thank goodness, we actually are getting some words out of them. YAY! They did just turn 3. It'd be nice to get more than NO out of them every now and again...

And, for all of you ladies who like a contest, my good friend Rebecca, over at Shoved to Them (www.shovedtothem.blogspot.com) is having a contest from now through next Wednesday (May 26th). An $80 gift card to an online retailer is nothing to sneeze at folks! Annnnnd you can get two entries if you publicly follow her, AND if you blog about the contest...nothing unusual there...

ANYWAY, folks, head on over to Shoved to Them, and give the contest a go. If you win, let me know. No, no "finders fee", just a comfortable sense of satisfaction knowing that someone went there and won that (even if it wasn't me! :-) ).

I do hope you are all doing well...I'm trying to keep up with the blogs as weather and circumstances permit, but you all know how that goes...

BBL!