since I’ve blogged. Not having any computer of any kind lately has seriously sucked. Laptop was dead and the other 2 computers in my house were so slow it took me an hour to print up concert tickets the other day! You don’t know HOW frustrating that was. (And, in the end…the concert was postponed so I didn’t even need to print them up yet).

But, just this past Saturday my brother was here (to help celebrate Caelie’s 9th birthday) and being the computer guru he is, he scrubbed my one computer and it now works wonderfully! Yay!!!! Problem still is sitting at it too long hurts the herniated disc in my neck. But I can’t complain – it’s better then nothing!

Sean came home last Thursday from North Dakota and we all had a really great weekend. And it actually went by nice and slow. As soon as I picked him up from the airport on Thursday we had to go right to the fields since all 3 kids were at soccer practice (my parents took them thankfully). And Thursday night he and I stayed up until about 2:30 or so. Mostly talking about…..c’mon…….guess…….soccer! He’s now wishing we had gone with my 1st instinct 2 months ago which was to pull all 3 kids and go to another club completely. It’s still not too late to do it. I seriously hate it up there! And Sean used to think it was just because of what happened with Tristan. He finally listened to me Thursday night and realizes what I meant back then.

Friday was Caelie’s 9th Birthday so we went to Busch Gardens with Charlie, Syndi and Nana and Pop and had an awesome day!

Saturday they all came here and we celebrated with an awesome meal (we tried 3 or 4 new recipes which I will type up on here). Our neighbors son came over for cake and around midnight Charlie and my parents left. We sent our neighbors son home around 2am and then the two of us ended up out on the back porch until 3:30. It was one of those weekends you don’t want to go to bed because you don’t want it to end.

Sunday, Sean and I were supposed to go to the Coldplay concert but it got postponed due to medical reasons. So now we’re just waiting to see when the new date will be and hoping we’ll be able to go. If not, I better be able to get my money back! Instead of the concert we went to Chili’s (alone) for dinner and had a nice couple of hours alone.

Today Tristan left with Nana and Pop to go back to Jax and have his week alone up there and the younger two and I took Sean to the airport so he could go back to work in North Dakota for another month and a half. He keeps saying he could be home the beginning of September but I seriously wish he wouldn’t tell me that. It only gets my hopes up and when it doesn’t happen it sucks!

Kieran’s flag football practice for tonight got cancelled (YAY) so I think we’ll have breakfast for dinner and maybe watch a movie! Now that both the competitive soccer season and the flag football have started we’re up at the fields 4 nights a week plus Saturdays for the flag football games. So tonight, being it’s a “freebie” we’re going to take advantage of it!

So this morning the kids and I took my mom and Syndi for their first trip to this awesome place called Val’s Basket Warehouse. I’ve always loved it there and I knew they would too. I think we spent about an hour and a half in there. It’s got so many cool different things (and inexpensive too!!!!).

But, while we were there Sean called with sad news – he’s going to be going to North Dakota for his job and will be gone 3 freakin’ months! I got off the phone with him and just cried. 1st off I’ve been feeling pissy the past few days because I seriously get tired of being known as “the independent one” in my family. I get tired of hearing “she’s so strong and independent – she’s fine”. (This goes back to things with my brother as well). There are some days where I’d love to be the one that gets taken care of. I don’t mind be independent, I always have been. But some days, I’d love to just be. And when he called to tell me that I just cried. Luckily I had walked down an aisle where the kids couldn’t see me. But Syndi came along and she saw me wiping the tears and trying to compose myself for the kids and promised her and my brother would help out (we shall see about that one – never comes into fruition). He’ll be gone just when soccer and flag football start up. He’ll miss our 12th anniversary, Caelie’s 9th birthday, the Coldplay concert we got tix for, a friends wedding we got invited to (and that I now have to go to alone), Tristan’s 1st day of middle school, and possibly my birthday and the U2 concert we have tix for.

On a fun note, Caelie has her first sleep over tonight. We picked her friend/soccer teammate up around 2:30 and they’ve been having a blast all afternoon. My mom took the boys out shopping for a few hours so the girls could just play by themselves and not be bothered. This is her 1st sleepover here at our house ever. I hope she has a fun night!

I can’t get this song out of my head!

Update at 2:40pm – I just bought tickets to see Coldplay in concert this August! I’m psyched!!!!

Fix You by Coldplay

When you try your best, but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down on your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you’re too in love to let it go
If you never try you’ll never know
Just what you’re worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And I…

Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I…

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you