ManningManiacs: October 2010

A little story about a lovely weekend of leisure. Little A went camping with our neighbors for the third weekend in a row. I had put my foot down earlier in the week, but they assured me that this was the last weekend to camp in ND and little A loves camping. We sent A out the door and took off for our Friday date. We all went to bed at 9pm and I woke up Saturday thinking about the endless possibilities that were in store for the day!

You might be wondering about that bus and those kids pictured above - we'll get to that!

I started the day by checking email and found an update on one of my teacher friends. She mentioned that she was going to the Brad Paisley concert "tonight" in Grand Forks. My heart sank a bit because Alicia is a fan of Paisley and GF is just 4 hours away. Sr. checked out the concert and come to find out Darius Rucker was the opening act. Who loves Darius? We do! He's our link to Charleston and we had just seen him in July. What should I do? What should we do? Well, you kind of see how this all turns out. We picked Alex up at Mouse River which is an hour the opposite way of GF. Concert was amazing, but our weekend wasn't nearly over.

We had about 2 weeks left to wait until we could pick up our puppy, but the breeder said that they'd meet us in Fargo since Sam had weened (they are from MN). That was a bit of a shock since we thought we had two weeks and we were not ready - didn't even have a squeaky toy! Fargo is two hours from GF (the wrong way...again) so we ended up driving in a rectangle style route on our way out of Minot to GF to Fargo to Bismarck and finally home. 4 exhausted people, 1 exhausted puppy, 2 apprehensive cats and all on a Sunday night. Crate training? Ugh. We're learning on the fly and wondering why. He's sleeping like an angel on his big pillow pad while I type this. It's like having a toddler all over again. I'm too tired to blog...so why am I blogging instead of crawling in bed? I think lack of sleep makes people crazy!