D got home Thursday night from his LA business trip, most of the time he spent it on the phone with me while I was having a nervous breakdown… Ha.. and not so ha!!
I spent Wed at my parents house,My brother came in from LA, we ate outside by the campfire and got in heated talks about the war with my parents, its real civil at my parents!! Anna and I slept in the same bed, we had some girl bonding time, I was so wiped out from the whole week of non stop kids that I didn’t wake up until almost 10:30,

Thursday we went to the beach, my little but not so little brother(1 tried to get Basil who has only swam once to swim out 5o feet to the log they were all rolling over and around on, I know you are a life guard but COME ON, I was not the happiest chicken in the pen that day, big mama bear was coming out, I carried that boy for 9 Mo., birthed him, almost died doing so, breast-fed for 17 mo., and have nursed his many many many falls, cuts, taken him to the hospital for his kidney problems, stayed by his side during hour long X-rays, not to mention loved the heck out of him for 5+ years and I was not going to have him go that way, thankfully he is really smart and told my brother off for trying to convince him.
I love love my family but the thing that ticks me off about all of them except one who is 22, is that they hate confrontation so much that they will take the guilty persons side just to get me and my 22 year old brother to shut up, we love justice and love saying what we think, believe you me we are not the most popular, everyone was staying silent, I was like Um…. its like asking the babe to swim out buddy, and the bay is only like 55 degrees!!! enough said!!!!
Gotta love those guys, can I rant some more… and then “Pop” told the same little five year old to”GO RUN ACROSS THE STREET and get the certain 18 year old” that was pouting over the water incident, I was like “RUN across the STREET” those two words should Never come out of an adults mouth to a child!!!
Well I guess he didn’t die from the water so lets get him run over by a car, and D wants me to go away for a couple of days, Ya I think they would all be safer at home without the “adults” looking after them.

I got to meet newest baby of our awesome friends who really helped us come into the Orthodox church, we saw them at the hospital, the baby weighed 9lb 2 oz and he was darling, mama looked really tired but so beautiful as ever, they named the baby Isaiah but they are calling him Isai (ee-sigh)It made me want to birth another child, not now but someday a long long time from now.

We attended an Ethiopian Millennium celebration on Sat, I met some cool people, ate some really great Ethiopian food, Anna saw some of her Ethiopian friends, I saw some people I met at the adoption gathering, and I met some Ethiopian people, We drank some great Ethio tea, and watched some cool dancing, everyone was so nice, it was awesome!
Today we were in the big city again worked through some stuff with D, ate Italian food, went to my favorite store, bought D some cologne for a make up present, he loved it, went to Macy’s home looked at Mar ta Stewart rugs, tried on five pairs of flats, they were out of size 7 1/2, looked at every earring they had, I didn’t like any except one pair, got thai at our favorite cheap thai, the place is really really sick inside the bathrooms are GROSS, but there is something really special about their food its really cheap when we started going there 13 years ago it was 3.99 now its 5.50 for everything on the menu, the bathroom has not been cleaned for 13 years though, on the way home on our one hour drive we ate choco covered pretzels,unsulfured apricots, and lots of water!