Back from the beach...had a wonderful time just too short...wish we had been able to stay another night and I know the kids were wishing that too--not sure if they can see each other again this week and DD leaves out for Jackson on Friday for 10 days so their goodbye was very sad--even made me want to cry..LOL! Had a first riff-raff as a "couple" last night and that was most interesting...tried to stay out of it totally but was getting both sides of it at me and I truly hated to choose sides because one was wrong at that time but the other had been wrong earlier in the day about something too..spent 45 min listening to DD's side of the story and then 20 min listening to b/f's side and decided it was just miscommunication and basically being a kid..what made it 10 times worse was the house across the street from my parents had a group of kids that they go to school with staying so of course they all got to witness the argument....ended up okay after I consented to giving them a couple of hours alone to get things worked out at the request of b/f. Much better after that!!!! Young love and not sure the ins and outs of being a couple yet..LOL!!!!

Glad I decided to go and stay the night--it truly did me good not only to spend some 1-on-1 time with DD but gave me some 1-on-1 time with the b/f as well...my nephews were down with my parents and goodness I enjoyed spending time with them not to mention it was nice to just be away from home for 36 hours...although at this point in the ballgame, DS is ready to kill me for leaving!!! Guess I am playing a loosing ballgame.