Bi-Polar again

I may need medication if my emotions keep running this high to low gamut every freaking weekend!

Friday night was SB's birthday party with her friends. It was so much fun. We did a scavenger hunt at the mall and the girls had a BLAST. I highly recommend this once you have girls who are old enough to navigate and you are comfortable allowing them some freedom in a group. I think 14 was the perfect age. They are still young enough to think it's cool, but old enough that I wasn't worried about them. They were in two groups of 4, which also worked quite well. The girls all stayed overnight and had a great time. This party was a little bittersweet. Several of these girls had their first ever slumber party at our house when they were in 1st grade. Now they are all 8th graders and going off to different high schools next year. It's been so much fun watching all of them grow up.

Yesterday was the Super bowl, of course. My FE is not only the biggest football fan I know, and trust me I know some pretty major fans even in my own house, but the biggest Cardinals fan. He has been so stressed all week about this game. he couldn't even eat much yesterday. And last night he was heartbroken. He cried and cried and had a terrible headache for hours after the game. He's a very sensitive kiddo. He's much better this morning, and still in love with his team. He knows they played a great game, and played with honor. They are a great group of guys.

On top of that, Bubba called during the game last night. He said it's been hell. Bubba is a really smart guy, with very little tolerance for those who are, shall we say, not quite as intellectually gifted!lol! He apparently is living with several of those people now. The learning curve is a bit out of whack with these guys and Bubba says they keep screwing stuff up, so the entire unit gets woken in the middle of the night to go clean stuff and do menial tasks. it is not making him happy. He has, however, found that he LOVES the church there and has gone both Sundays. So that's very cool! The worst part of the call was the end. I could hear the drill sergeant yelling at them to get off the phone and Bubba was sobbing that he misses us so much. It broke my heart.

Back to non-party mode today. I think we're done with parties for a few months at least. Thank goodness!