This is my Army son at my brother's this past weekend with my nephew. It seems as if they really hit it off. Tommy got up at 5 with the baby and changed and fed him. Surprised my brother alright! It seems like Tommy spent a good portion of his leave helping everyone get stuff done. He helped my brother trim his trees and haul stuff to the curb,then he trimmed around all their flower beds after that, he painted my mother's kitchen ceiling and put in her air conditioners then he went to see my other brother and his wife for a bit. His reward was a trip to Joe's Crab Shack (that was second choice first was Candella's but they were closed on Memorial Day).

My SIL has just gotten home from the hospital from her second (and hopefully last)round of surgery for rectal cancer. She seems to be doing well. She still has some chemo to do but they are feeling very good about the whole thing and she is keeping a positive outlook and looking forward to getting her life back!

Long, long work weekend so I will skip over that. I got home late on Saturday night to find my younger son in the yard with this new kid who had moved in down the street. They asked if they could camp out in the woods and I couldn't think of any reason why not so I agreed. Well at about midnight, the dog starts going ballistic and I figure they guys are wanting to come in so I go downstairs to see what was going on and here is my neighbor who just happens to be a county cop. He wants to know if Mark has a friend staying over. Apparently they were coming home and 2 boys hurled a chunk of wood at their car and took off running. Not much actual damage had been done but obviously it couldn't be ignored because there could have been a LOT of damage done. Well, I come in and get dressed and take off after the boys. They aren't coming when I call and I don't even have flash light! I pulled my car down the hill and put my high beams on...still can't see them and they aren't coming. I start calling Mark's cell phone thinking I could hear it ring but about this time, the neighbor comes back with his big flashlight and we head down into the woods. We get down there and here are 2 boys with Mark (I didn't know about the other one), they have a fire going in our drought stricken woods...and everyone is acting innocent. Mark claims he knows nothing, he was asleep...this I doubt but I am sure he wouldn't be a part of anything that stupid. Finally the other 2 confess. Well we made them call their mom and made their mom come get them and the neighbor took down all the information about how to contact them etc. I made Mark carry water down the hill and put the fire out and everyone was gone a little after 1. Mark has been forbidden to see or talk to these kids at all. A little hard to do since they ride the bus together but I am keeping an eye out. For the life of me I cannot figure out what they thought they were doing or why they did it. Mark isn't talking either. What a mess! The end result for me was no sleep that night and then a full shift at work. *groan*

I am looking forward to Wednesday and Thursday off. School is finished so I don't even have to go and do that. As soon as I finish here, I am heading downstairs to see if I can get some stitching done before I have to go to work today. It is hot and steamy here so I suspect I will stay inside to do it though!