Busy weekends are the best - right?

Thursday, March 17, 2016 -
          Sunday, March 20, 2016

First of all, let me wish all of you a hearty Happy St. Patrick's Day, although it is a little late now.  I hope you remembered to wear your green and you didn't get pinched!
Also - happy, happy Spring!!  We've now moved into the next stage of the year, and we have all the pretty stuff going on outside to prove it (and some crazies already mowing, too!)...it's gonna be a banner year for flowers, I think.

Thursday was a Happy Homemaker Day for me.  I had to get my house ready for the weekend, since we were going to have Corgan for the whole weekend and we had all sorts of plans going on every day, too.  I did spend time on the pute during the evening, figuring out the budget for the week, because that was key to our plans.

Friday - ah, Friday! - my 'get out of the house day' and boy, did I ever!  I had made arrangements with Bert to meet her down the road after I did errands up in Bethel, so after phone calls and my Bethel errands, I met her at our arranged spot and we went to lunch at LaRosa's.  It was the first time she had ever been there!  We had a nice lunch, then went on over to Eastgate to do what we needed to over there, and we both had errands over there. Then we went back to Kroger and got gasoline in both our vehicles and a small bit of shopping, and then went on to Walmart so I could do my grocery shopping and she could pick up a couple of items.  I told her where to look for these items this time so her shopping wouldn't be so frustrating.
I had wanted to be home by 4, but I was off by an hour.  I still had an hour to things put together for the dish I was making to take to our friends' house for supper tonight - and we ended up leaving the house only a few minutes late. We had a great time with a fantastic meal, super friends and just good fun.  We even got home about an hour and a half earlier than we usually do, which was a good thing because Ron was really tired (we usually go to their house on a Saturday).

Saturday morning, Ron and Corgan got up and went up to Georgetown to get Ron's license tags renewed (happy birthday, Ron!) while I slept in - as usual.  I was up when they got back, although I was still lying in bed reading.  They watched a movie, then I got up and we all played games for a while, took a small break to get something to eat, then switched to playing cards  (we've created a monster gambler!) until I got supper done.  Then it was a small break to eat, then it was movie time for those two, while I went and layed back on the bed and played on my tablet some more.  All in all, a quite refreshing day!  Only down side was me cutting my finger on a knife while doing some dishes while and as cooking supper and there was a little contretemps about someone getting my bleeding self a bandaid....but we survived.

Sunday.  Church and lunch.  BUT - today is special, for both.  Today is Palm Sunday, so the Passion is read, and that is always a bit more.
Lunch was down at Hibachi, and it is Ron's birthday dinner, and I've (we've) invited a lot of friends to share with us.  Although many, many people were invited, we were pretty sure that 20-25 were going to show up, and that was the number I had told the restaurant.  After church, I got notices that 3 people weren't going to be able to come (that's okay, it happens and I'm glad I got the notices).    The others we were expecting showed up - except for Bert and Teresa, who are not a surprise when they have a "change of plans" - and another family was late, but did finally show up.  So we ended up only being 18, but that was a great showing to us - you've got to remember that we know how our parties turn out!!  We were very pleased with the result.  The people who showed up were the ones that mattered, and that's ALL that mattered.
I think Ron had a very happy birthday dinner.  We didn't leave there until almost 3:00, so you know we had a good time!

We stopped at Walmart on the way home, but I couldn't find what I stopped for, so I did a little more Easter shopping, then we came on home and watched TV.  We watched The Passion of the Christ, too, which was totally appropriate for this Palm Sunday (and Ron stayed awake, too!), between dead guy shows and then it was Ron's bedtime and this weekend is over.

Tomorrow - happy birthday to Ron on the first full day of Spring - born in '58, turning 58!!