Surprise

We had a good weekend. We went camping to the mountains. The mountains are about 3-6 hours from here, depending on were you are going. People hear think we are in the perfect location, 2hours form the beach and 3 hours from the beach. Being from Massachusetts, I think that these are long drives to do every weekend, as many people here do. Anyway, we got Buddy out of school early and drove to the mountains. We got our tent set up just before it was completely dark,. The campsite was nice and had clean bathrooms. On Sat. we went to Chimney Rock. A friend went with us with his dog and we brought our dogs. Some people did not enjoy walking by our dogs, but most people were good about it. We got some apples while we were there and cider( the real stuff). The 2gallons of cider are gone now. Overall a very good weekend. Yesterday I had jury duty. I had to show up at 9am. Then they sent us home to come back at 2pm. At 2, they picked the jurors. I was not called. It was a civil suit, were a person was rearended and was suing for bodily injury. It was a low impact collision. I think it would have been interesting to hear the case, but child care wise it made it easy to not have to go back in the next day. When I got home I had to take take Zeus and CHewy to the vet. Zeus had not had any shots at that vet before so I had to wait for them to get the record from the old vet. They were supposed to do this before my appt. and apparently did not. So they told the vet the info over the phone and were supposed to fax it over. Well they never faxed it and vet didn't want to do the shots until she had it on paper. Finally after 30minutes she decided to take them at their word. I had told her I wasn't going to wait longer than 30 minutes, the dogs were getting antsy. Now with the plan I have with the dogs I pay under $20 a month, and I don't pay any office fees, shots and a few other minor things. It works out to be a good deal. So since joining this new vet, I have had to have all three of my dogs anal glands expressed. I had only heard of anal glands because my sister dog had a problem with it(I think it was her dog). I don't know if my dogs really needed this done, because they have never needed this done before. I did not want to not have it done in case there was a problem and I was just being cheap.I think that its a waste(lol) of money, but I am no vet. Anyway, i was annoyed with that. So that was my weekend. Today we had a conference with Buddy's teacher. She said he is doing great academically, but she has to remind him to pay attention, and he talks loud. Nothing new, there. We debated starting him in school a year later(his birthday was at the cutoff). We ended up starting him because academically he was ready, so I don;'t know if it would have been better or worse if he started school a year later or not. Tomorrow is his 7th birthday. Today I took Lizzie to the mall to pick out his present. I told her not to tell him. As soon as we picked him up from school she told him what she got. She said to me that she just wanted to tell him that. I tried to play it off and say that is just what Buddy wanted to get, not necessarily what he was going to get. We also picked up a present of a neighbor's kid whose bday is on Halloween, we will see if Lizzie can keep that secret.