Sorry for the lapse! I was MIA, since I was babysitting CJ this weekend.
I didn't think to carry around my camera or I would have given you a visual commentary. I'm slackin' a bit in my picture taking.
Anyways, it was a good weekend, no major mishaps or episodes.
Though, we have to work on CJ's propensity to lie to get out of doing an inkling more than he has to. He so used to no one checking up on him, he does it as second nature & doesn't even think about what he's saying. So, it might have finally sunk in that he can't do that anymore.
Ahhh...sometimes, it sucks to be a kid. LOL!
My weekend started off on Thursday night and lasted until Sunday night. I tried to think up of things to engage him and keep his mind active. If not, his medication will usually have him falling asleep.
We did, in no particular order, from memory:
- Made beef soup together from a recipe I got from a co-worker. however, it turned out more like a cassarole, since I cannot seem to read correctly and made too much pasta and it sucked up the 'soup' part.
We had it for lunch that day and used the rest as part of our eggplant dinner. CJ also tried eggplant for the first time and liked it!
- Made homemade laundry detergent from a recipe I got from Simple Dollar. I have no idea if it worked, but it was fun to make.
- Went out for dinner the first night to IHOP. I got myself some pumpkin pancakes. YUM!! CJ tried something new and got a Philly Cheesesteak and liked it!
- He also lived through my pumpkin hunt through the local food store the next day. I found pumpkin angel food cake and a pumpkin creme roll! Both way too big for me to buy, since no one else likes pumpkin and CJ does not like cake at all (godsend!!).
- Completed some yardwork, in which CJ helped and did not mind at all! I didn't do any 'hardcore' (aka my blackhole of a backyard) just simple sweeping up leaves and bagging them for recycle pick-up.
- Visited my city's Recycling Center to drop off plastics & newspapers, phone books (who uses phonebooks nowadays?). We took a look around the lovely grounds too.
- Tolerated going to Rite-Aid for a prescription I needed and gave me his opinion on my search for travel alarm clocks - "Aunt Michele, it doesn't have to be pretty; it just needs to work!". Out of the mouth of babes....
- One morning, we made pancakes together. CJ had enormous fun shaking up the Bisquick and pouring his own pancakes. I also used this time to have him pour his own drink (his hand grip is very loose due to his muscular probs). He did it with flying colors.
- He did well on our trip to Wal-Mart to get the final items for our beef soup. Additonally, I was able to use the Snow White coupon to get the DVD for $9.96! It was originally $24.96, in-store sale for $19.96 and my $10 coupon = $9.96. CJ was so excited for me, he wanted to watch the DVD that night and started singing a song from SW in the store!!
- We went to a local zoo on our final day called Turtleback Zoo. They were advertising a "puimpkin patch" theme, so I thought it would be something Halloween-y to do (since I couldn't find anything else), but it turned out to be nothing. CJ was perfectly fine visiting his animals, as he calls them. He was a bit bummed that the Black Dragon wasn't in his cage at the Reptile House. I also used this time to teach him about using the zoo map, and he quickly set about telling me where to walk. LOL!
- For some reason, I didn't have the brain capacity to figure out how to get my DVD to play through my new-ish cable box. So, we could not watch Snow White, but he took it like a trooper and said it was ok, Men In Black double-feature was playing, so he would watch that. It was priceless!
My sister called on her way home and did confirm he was 85% good all weekend. So, she decided to reward him with his very favorite thing of all - which has not had in his entire time living with my sis - dinner at Chili's!!
I had lost 15 pounds in the last 6 weeks, but this week... in one week, my weight shot back up TEN POUNDS. I better be retaining water, because this defies all logic and reason. 
But Ron likes you no matter what.
Yes, I'm that 
. 
He did call me Mickey for awhile but the nickname never caught on (I'm guessing Mom had something to do with that...
, but it came in XXL. Granted, I'm not little, but geesh, at least have a XL! 
), it has seriously cut into my gym time. 
