SPRING BREAK DRAMA

Spring Break is officially over as of this past Monday and things never did slow down. Some break!

We had visitors the weekend before Spring Break that left on Monday and then Dad and Mom pulled in Tuesday night.

The official "Porter Curse" wreaked havoc all week long, starting with Gerald's car breaking down on Wednesday, so into the shop it went. At least, we had Dad and Mom's car so that if we all wanted to venture out to eat or to see a local site, we could.

Wrong!

Thursday afternoon the air conditioner went out in their car, so into the shop it went.

Unfortunately for Dad and Mom, it was NOT an inexpensive fix.

Wednesday, we decided to turn on the air conditioner to make Dad and Mom more comfortable; you guessed it, the just-a-year-old air conditioner did not want to comply.

It tried but failed miserably.

Sniffles and sneezes were all around as trees and flowers were budding everywhere and pollen was leaving it's fine, yellow mist on anything and everything.

After two tries on two different days, the repairman decided that it was simply our thermostat and temporarily hooked up a plain old thermostat to replace the fancy-schmancy thermostat. We could turn on the air, hallelujah!

We're still waiting on our new fancy-schmancy thermostat that will hopefully run our air AND heat, not just one or the other. Such complications!

So, the air was up and running and, so far, it had cost us nothing but runny noses, swollen sinuses, red itchy eyes and a few, small grump-arguments.

Dad and Mom's car was fixed on Friday, as was Gerald's, and so we all ventured out legally restrained. I won't tell you what we did the previous two days.

Saturday dawned bright, sunny and weepy(Dad) as my parents headed back to Kansas City for much-needed rest before the Monday morning rat race.

Gerald tried catching up on some homework, then went and mowed the lawn of a friend that we help out. NCAA was on, so the weekend was pretty much shot.

Gerald and kids went back to school on Monday with a softball tournament, track and indoor soccer practices, newly assigned book reports and Band Camp looming on the horizon.

Oh yeah and I'm having my wisdom teeth taken out Easter weekend. Woohoo! Bah Humbug.

We're hosting a family again this weekend so I'm beginning to spruce up the house a bit; however, I was able to venture outside today to catch a few pictures while the trees and flowers are in full bloom.

And, try as I might, Blogger is not willing right now to upload the images so you'll have to check back later this evening to see the pictures.

Just another affirmation of the Porter Curse.