What's happened to Freakmom?

I'm sure you are all wondering where I've been. It is probably keeping you up at night. Your lives have been placed on temporary hold while you constantly hit refresh at Freakmom's Space to see if I've posted anything new.

No? Well, I'm going to tell you where I've been anyway (and no hard feelings).

I left you all when I was going to my ladies' dinner with the purple monkey socks. I think they liked them. We didn't do a "steal the gift" thing once they were opened. There was a much bigger variety this year. I got a pretty business card holder and purse holder (you use it to hold your purse to the table when you are at a restaurant). I'll post pictures as soon as I can.

We had a nice dinner and lots of laughs. There was lots of great gossip but it was all about people from work and I'm sure it wouldn't make any sense to any of you. Mr. Incredible tried to follow a couple of the stories but admitted he couldn't. Sounds like I'm going to have a job for the short term anyway. And it sounds like my boss (who wants me there) has quite a bit of power in the company.

While I was out, Mr. Incredible took Violet to buy 4 goldfish for her tank. They were Pearl, Ruby, Bubbles and Treasure. Sadly, Pearl and Treasure died during the night last night. She still has Rudy and Bubbles and is considering getting 2 more fish sometime. She was quite sad, but I assured her it wasn't her fault. Fish die.

On Sunday we delivered all those blankets, towels and pillows she collected for the greyhound adoption organization. We got a tour of the kennels. Violet even got to see them caring for the broken leg on one doggie, he was getting his foot rewrapped. It was quite fun. We've tentatively set up that she's going to help them out Memorial Day weekend for her Bronze Award project. She's going to help with cleaning the grounds and planting flowers before their big memorial ceremony for dogs that have passed on. We're going to see if she can also bring some goodies for the volunteers to snack on to add to the project. And maybe see if they need posters made or anything. That will help her meet the hour requirement without having to do hard manual labor the entire time.

Yesterday was the Juliette Art-to-Wear Try-It Day. We were busy cleaning up the house, setting up, and hosting the girls (and their moms). They decorated shoe laces with fabric paint, did the Sharpie marker tie dye on bandanas idea from Ami, turned socks into slipper socks with 3-D fabric paint and made papier mache bracelets. It went smoothly and of course I forgot to take pictures of the girls working on their projects. I did take photos of the finished projects on the drying table and I will post those eventually. The girls seemed to really enjoy the projects. There were no complaints about them or that they'd done things like that a lot already.

All in all, we are glad the Try-it Days are over with. Violet completed the requirements for her Junior Aide Patch. We may do another in the spring when it is warm enough to meet at a park instead of our house. They are a lot of work.

Today we watched much of the Inauguration. Violet enjoyed a lot of it, but tired by about the 5th hour of it. I could have watched more. I guess the day did get off to a rough start what with the deaths of Pearl and Treasure. Now she's reading Boxcar Children mysteries and is about to help me make stuffed shells for dinner.

So that's where Freakmom has been. I hope to not go AWOL that long again in the near future at least. I've been trying to keep up with all of your blogs and miss everyone.