My parents, sisters, and grandma are coming down this weekend to visit and to celebrate my dad's 50th (!!!) birthday. This afternoon, I reminded Evie and Maggie that they would be here tomorrow. Evie said, "Nana and Opie always take so slow to get here!" (I didn't prompt her to say that at all, Opie, and that's the truth!! :)

I started asking Maggie if she was excited to see Mema, then Megan, and so on, and she exclaimed, "YEAH!" with each name. Then when I asked if she was excited to see Opie, she said, "Yeah, 'cause Opie's my friend." So cute!

After some more discussion about the visitors we were having, Evie told me (again), that ""It's just not as fun without special people here." I asked if Daddy and I weren't fun. She said, "I like Daddy and you, but I really like it when other people are here, too." I couldn't agree more. :)

I had to call the plumbers out again this morning. I went out last night to run some laundry. I had been slacking, and there was/is a huge pile of dirty laundry. When I got out to the laundry room, there was a bunch of gook on the floor, and the floor was damp. I tested the washer, and sure enough, the drain wasn't draining. The guys messed and messed with it and had to eventually go get acid to eat at whatever was clogging it up! The plumber said it wasn't roots, and he wasn't sure what it was, but he eventually cleared it out. In John's defense, I'm pretty sure there weren't enough of those tiling thingamabobs down there to cause that much trouble. I'm not looking forward to seeing that plumbing bill. And the house smelled like rotton eggs for awhile from the acid. It might still. I'm probably just used to it by now!