The past few weeks have been a whirl wind of activity. My dd graduated from grad school and came home to say with us for a couple of weeks to finish preparations for her wedding. While attending to that, we were also running three businesses and my dh was simultaneously looking for work. All the while, my pain level increased as did my fatigue.

We had wished we could have spent more time with the family doing fun things. We had planned it that way, but the job loss took that away from us. However, despite the overwhelming stress and time of building our businesses and the loss of the financial ability to take day trips or buy our bride-to-be some special gifts, we did find a few ways to enjoy some family time along the way.  Here now are the details entitled, Massages and Dinners and Weddings, Oh My!

One night, when we were swamped trying to complete some deadlines, the kids made dinner for us!

One afternoon, we took a field trip to a candy factory!  I got some chocolate I’d been craving for weeks!

Here are we (my dd and I) after massaging away wedding and life stress! Mother/daughter time!

Last weekend was her wedding. I’ll share more about that at a later date, but we had some funny stories about our last week leading up to our trip out to Pittsburg to attend the wedding while all of this chaos was going on around us.  Enjoy the giggles:

The Great Pantyhose Crisis of 2015

As a 5′ NUTHIN’ woman with children’s size 3 feet and who wears children’s sized hats and gloves, I usually have a tough time finding clothes.  My waist is very small, but after having two kidlings, my hips aren’t and I wasn’t well endowed by my Creator so things usually just don’t fit.  However, I was able to find an affordable dress right away that did fit.  I had to go to several stores, but…I found it on the first day out with my dd when she was visiting.  However, the shoes and pantyhose were another story entirely.

They don’t sell children’s shoes that are suitable for a wedding.  So I purchased a size 5.5 on Amazon and prayed they’d fit.  They didn’t, but they were close so I put inserts in to keep my feet from slipping out when I walked.  I felt it would be rather funny to have my shoes fling off down the aisle, but apparently that’s not appropriate.  I thought that was the end of my wedding attire search, but I was sadly mistaken.

So pantyhose aren’t en vogue anymore and most stores don’t really sell them now.  Some did have them, but their smalls went up to 5’7″ and 145lbs!  They did, indeed, have petite sizes, but they were also QUEEN sized.  I’m more little princess sized so that didn’t work.  So I went to my backup plan.  They make children’s tights that look like nylons.  An XL goes up to 110lbs and 5’2″!  Perfect!  Well, not, because they didn’t have any XL.  However, after going to every department store and specialty store this side of Chicago, my dh found a support hose that goes up to 5’5″.  They started off a LOT shorter so they didn’t stretch as much as the others do.  Sooo…yay!  I didn’t have white legs with blue veins at my dd’s wedding!

One Fish, Two Fish, This isn’t my shoe, ISH!

Meanwhile, back at the boys end of things, my dh found a great pair of shoes (for his Father-of-the-Bride suit) which were on sale for something like 85% off!  Got them home and realized that they are both two different sizes!  You don’t really notice it so, unless he puts his feet up, mums the word!

I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog posts coming up next week…