Why I don't like Facebook, and the Museum

So, I've been playing alot of racquetball lately. It's fun. I have a good time. It gives me energy. Whatever, right? So, I also play with this boy. This boy and I have also been going to dinner and movies together. He usually pays (single mom card and all) We enjoy each others company...alot. I will sit and read a book, and he does Mensa puzzles. It's nice to have someone around. Oh, and he's not really a boy...mid-30's.

To make the racquetball games more interesting, we started placing bets. IE: I win, he washes my car. He wins, I give him a man-pedicure *shiver* You get the idea. So, while we're playing a while ago the bet is that if I loose, I change my Facebook status from "single" to "in a relationship." I lost. And I got 14 comments on the status, a phone call from several brothers and my dad called within an hour. Okay, okay, okay...maybe I should have called some people first and said "I have a boyfriend now, more info coming later..." but I didn't. I mean, most everyone has heard about him anyways since we've spent so much time together, but that is why I hate Facebook. In a nutshell: he's a nurse working toward his nurse anethestist (sp?) and a super nice guy. Handsome if I do say so myself. My kids like him alot, he sends me flowers all the time, carries my bags around the mall when we go shopping and is old school gentleman. I love it. Anyways, I posted some pics above from when he took me and the kids to the Science museum. That was a ton of fun.

A Day at the Zoo

Hannah Banana at the zoo
Juliana running around having a ball with her cousins!

Joe and Hannah, both our little Kindergarten kids

Lizzy and Juliana

Emily and Juliana

I know, i know. It has been a while since I have updated this. What's the point of having a blog, if you never update it! I apologize to my ONE reader!

Dear Sarah,

I'm sorry.

XOXO,

Catherine

Now that's out of the way...

A couple weeks ago my brother Mike and I took all our kids (7 in total) out to the Gainsville zoo. It's about a 45 minute drive, but it's cute and worth it if you have nothing better to do. There was hardly anyone there so even Juliana got to really roam free. The animals were jealous. My brother and I had fun "making the animals" talk MST3000 style, and the kids had fun. It was a bit cold, but all in all just fun. Afterwards, we ate cookies at the nice park they had and let the kids run around some more. My kids fell asleep about 4 blocks from the house. Eh. The story of the day was that about half way through the zoo, there is a small place to feed the goats. Jackson has never really done that before, so he was a bit hesitant. Joe on the other hand was ready! he ran towards them asking for food pellets screaming "I ain't 'fraid of no goats!" hilarious! I'm not sure he got his Ghostbusters reference, but Mike and I thought it was pretty funny. I finally convinced Jackson that it was okay to feed the goats, and they weren't going to hurt him. He watched the other kids and me do it a few times and finally decided to slowly and carefully give it a shot. He got a few pellets in the palm of his tiny hand, and every so slightly moved it closer to one of the smaller goats. The goat then proceeded to totally ignore the food pellets and bit the crap out of Jackson's finger! He cried a little bit, but more because he was scared than anything else. After the tears, he gave me this look as if it say "How could you betray me like that? You said I would be ok!" He didn't talk to me for a while after that...and will probably never again feed a goat.