When you are having fun they just fly by don’t they?  The holiday season must be in full swing.  But this 4 day was so needed.  We spent a lot of time with friends and our family.  There was dinner at a friends house to watch football on Thursday night, then Friday night a friend had a party to thank those that helped with their remodeling.  We haven’t all gotten together like that in many months so it was just awesome.  Especially to add in a few of the new guys/wives that just got hired or just got off probation.  Then Friday night was a retirement party for one of my clients Dad’s actually.  lol  See it’s a damn small world   She and I didn’t know a thing about each other when she first hired me to train her.  Then our lives just showed a huge intersecting.

Anyway, the retirement party went really well.  He’s been in fire service since 1962 and it was very rural out here for many years.  They roasted the hell out of him.  lol  Good times!  Sunday we spent up on the slopes just the 4 of us.  It snowed like crazy half the day and it wasn’t supposed to.  So it was AWESOME!

Today hubby started his set and it’s trying to have record cold.  I’m hoping all their calls are inside if they get any at all.

I’m posting all of this happiness because I need to pull the happy moments of the last week to the front of my mind.  Tomorrow is the memorial for the murdered Lakewood Police Officers.  Unless hubby has something else planned, I won’t be able to not watch.  I’ve had a headache for the last few hours from watching them get ready for this huge event.  I just ache with the tears I already know will be spilled tomorrow.

Anyway, I will post again tomorrow I’m sure.  But I wanted to get this happy post of the last few days in here first.  I want to remember what I do live for before I’m reminded how dangerous all of their jobs are.

So I’m a little cranky at my husband today, he just doesn’t think to help me with my blogging. lol He was on youtube last night searching around and finding fire videos of course and found quite a few cool one’s. But he didn’t bookmark them! I told him he has to from now on so I can share them every once and a while on here.

But I got this one from a friend on facebook and it’s a total must share. Enjoy the laugh!

For those of you readers that know, I’ve posted about a really bad recent Ped’s Call and then again how I was ready to kick some serious ass if people didn’t stop asking him about it. Sorry, I know I work hard at keeping my language down on here (which is work for me) so I can stay more family friendly. But this call has been horrid.

Last night while laying in bed, hubby blurts out “so that kid didn’t die afterall”. Unfortunately, this doesn’t let me know what he is talking about. Our district is busy and sadly we have a lot of kids calls because it is so busy. But I am a girl so I immediatetly assumed it was this call. I said, “Oh you mean the call that everyone seems to need to hear about over and over again?” See I haven’t talked to him about how pissed I got at everyone, but that let him know. lol 19 years of being together we can communicate sometimes like that.

Anyway, he had been told the baby had died after falling out of the window. It is sadly not the first time he’s held a kid he thought was gone and still worked hard at getting them to the hospital. But another shift went on a call to their house for the baby. Of course, with any brain injury there is the worry of seizure and that was why they were called out. I’m so thankful that they told hubby they went on the call. It means someone is looking out for him.

So long story shorter. I’m happy to report that the baby did not die and is doing awesome with no brain issues and very little delay. VERY little delay. Having our friends kid be handicapped I of course asked about that as well. lol I’m happy to report that my hubby and his partner saved a baby that day.

No, I’m not talking about my honey. But he is as well. lol

Our weather this Summer has been outrageously off. So much hot weather. More days of sun in two months than we usually have all year here in the Seattle area I think. ROFLMAO But it is pretty difficult for the boys to work. Hubby went on a housefire all last night and was miserable. When I talked to him at 4pm he had gone through 3 tshirts already. He sweats a lot anyway, but all these days in a row of upper 80’s and 100 today and tomorrow are a lot.

But I promised a happy post today to balance it out some. I’m excited that we have friends at the lake that are off shift with us. The kids are gone for the night and we’re packing up to go play in the water. So cheers to friends that are willing to pay the high tax dollars and live on the lack!

In my last post I talked about how I hoped we’d all be getting together more often. Thankfully it has. Of course, my waistline is under some serious damage from all the BBQ’s, but the laughs are totally worth it!

We’ve gotten together and had no big issues, which you know can happen in any family. lol But now we’ll be doing it a lot more since our good buddy just broke up with his girlfriend. Hubby texted me our buddy was coming to dinner because “he’s sad”. awww, poor guy. So we’ll swarm around the wounded even though every one of us wants to tell him “we told you so!”

We’re only half way through the Summer. Our next big party is our daughter’s bday next week. We’ve invited half our shift and told them no presents. lol They won’t listen, so we’ll just have to have a big party for the youngest in Feb as well. Not fair how much loot she’s going to come away with from this.

Happy Father’s Day to all the Fire Dads out there. Hubby is home and we are ready to spoil him. As soon as he decides what he wants to do. Right now we are just watching tv and if that is what he wants to do then that’s cool. That’s how I spent Mother’s Day. lol

Well he just decided he wants to stay home. We just remembered we have lobster tails in the fridge we can eat for dinner. We may go play put-put golf, guess we’ll just have to see. He’s going jogging and to the gym and we’ll see after that how the day goes. Good grief, like pulling teeth to get him to choose what he wants to do and eat today.

Just a big wish for a wonderful Mother’s Day to all my fellow Firefighter Wives out there. I hope he didn’t have to work today and is helping the kids spoil you rotten.

I bought myself some killer Tbones for the grill and lobster tails. Also a wonderful bottle of wine. I’m set for some serious grillin’!

I’m a member of a great community called Fire Wives. This is a very supportive community to help all of us wives deal with the every day issues that pop up. We vent, we cheer, we cry together when big events happen.

Angela has started a great weekly post called My Husband Rocks. We understand that a lot of times we need support on this forum because stuff goes down, or we want to shake off the little stuff in life and not drag our husbands down with it. There is enough on their plate without bringing every little daily thing to their attention all the time. So Angela wanted to keep a great positive vibe going and created this weekly post. If you go on there you can read mine, I’m busymomma on the boards. If you join us over there make sure and give a shout out that you found us through me I’d love to hear that I helped bring more wives/girlfriends/fiance’s some help.

IT’S MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY!

So many reasons why. I love the color green, been my favorite color forever. My family and another family used to get together every St. Patty’s day when I was growing up and try to make the whole meal green. As much as possible. OH MY, can you picture it? Do you want to picture it? LOL Some of the things we laughed over and ate were amazing. Great memories.

Hmm, another reason that’s even bigger? Oh, well, Momma here be a wee bit Irish. I’m full blown American Mutt, but the top notes are Irish and Native. lol I celebrate everything with a shot of whiskey. Life, death, weddings, waking up today. Everything goes more smoothly with a great shot of great whiskey. Or on some days with a great shot with great friends, of horrible whiskey. lol Whatever the case may be Is the Irish in me the reason I have the ability to hang with all the guys in our life? Maybe, have no idea if it has to do with how I’ve become the woman I am and how I can deal with everything all of them go through and help pull them out of any funks.

But the top reason I love St. Patty’s Day?

It’s the anniversary of hubby and my first date. 19 years ago we officially went out. I can still remember my best friends Mom saying we argued like an old married couple. The banter back and forth hasn’t changed much since that first date, we are still full of sarcasm and rib each other daily. lol

I’m Irish and proud. Toast to ye whether ye be Irish or nah God knows I will have a toast to every one of you tomorrow.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all my brothers and sisters out there!

Of course there are many, but I’m going to focus on one that is so much better than the norm!

I’ve gotten to be good friends of one of the girls on dispatch. She’s PD dispatch and the way we got to be friends is around about and I don’t want to type it all. lol But she’s a good friend and there are so many nights like tonight that I’m up texting/IMing/or facebooking with her. Tonight we hit a huge HIGH.

Um, I am working on being a work from home ONLY Mommy by the time the kids get done with school mid-June. I will keep my seniors class as I totally love teaching them. But I will drop most other training.

My dispatch girlie is on a crazy schedule like hubby. She has nothing off for a long time cause she is competent and takes so much OT. But alas, I got her to confess to an early shift schedule on a sunday night. Guess what? Hubby is on his 4 day. If we go skiing then it will just be a little later, but I can take the Monday off and he can get the kids off to school.

Can you see why the crazy schedule works? Oh, then let me explain further. My longest best friend has kids and hubby has to work regular job and the second longest best friend has to get kids off on Monday and get to work teaching. OH MAN, I’m spoiled. I love this schedule and I see how funky things happen to friendships. Thankfully I have my new friends that are on funky schedules or understand so they are not offended when these things come out.

My dispatch girlie and I will hit it for sure. She gets off early that night. But I’m pretty sure my “regular” friends won’t be able to make it.

“Regular” friends deserves a whole new post to itself.