Psycho X, Fan and Smores

My friend, Paula, from Vancouver called me today at about 3:00 and said she was coming over to visit for the night and bringing her 2 girls.

Some brief history on Paula....She was step-mom to AH's kids' older sister. She also adopted the baby that AH's psycho X-wife had with a guy she met off the internet before she went to jail the first time for child neglect. Follow that one. Loonnnggg story. (I'll blog about it some time later, I'm sure.) So, basically, the Psycho had four kids. AH and I have the middle two and Paula and her husband have the oldest and youngest.

We have become friends over the last couple of years because we have so much in common. Mainly because we are the step-moms of siblings and have had to deal with our men's psycho X from hell. No one else understands what we have been through with her.

The plan for tonight was to build a campfire and roast hot dogs and make smores. We have a campfire pit built onto our back patio so campfires happen a lot here in spring and summer. We bought all the fixins and got rained out. So we nuked the dogs, danced in the living room with the kids and played our favorite ceiling fan game.

Here's how it goes: The kids (who, tonight, are ages 16, 13, 10, 9 and 5) bring out their stuffed animals and we toss them up in the air until they land on the fan. Then we flip the switch and watch them fly off. Hey, the kids love it and it's great fun for adults too if you've had enough tequila. Here's a pic of the fan half loaded.





I'm sure our landlord would REALLY appreciate it.

We had a good time and I'm the only one left awake. We never did make those smores. The stuff's still in the cupboard. Hmmm........I'll be back later.