Our Weekend with Cousin Caitlin

This weekend kicked off when I got off the plane from Arkansas. No offense to Arkansas but I never felt more like a fish out of water. I am Catholic, but have never seen a billboard that just said JESUS. Anyway, my cousin Caitlin came down to spend the weekend with us. Saturday we took Preston to the berry farm to go strawberry picking. My mom definitely had a good time picking strawberries and ended up with about 12 pounds. They were the most beautiful, huge, red strawberries I have ever seen. I would love to know where the Driscoll farm is because those berries that I buy in the grocery store are seriously pathetic. We ended up giving many in the neighborhood bowls of strawberries. It was a lot of fun. Mom picked some winners. We have been eating strawberries all weekend. Here are some pics:This weekend also marked PaPa starting in his garden. Here is Preston wanting to help out. I promised him next weekend he can use his new hoe (joke never gets old people).

Today we celebrated my birthday a day early-that is after my real birthday present-my ex moving back to town. I have so many mixed feelings-I am totally indifferent to him-personally I can care less what he does and where he does it, but I get pissy when I think of how Preston is thrown into this mix. We met him at Target so he can start getting items for Preston for his apartment; Preston was receptive, but Mommy still was not to be out of sight for that long and he had no reservations about coming back into the car at the end of the visit. I just know that somehow this won't work out. That he will ingrain himself into Preston's life and leave again. Not to mention the thousands in back support he owes. The only good thing is he has now availed himself to the jurisdiction of Virginia so.....Enough wasting time on that subject.

I got very nice gifts-beautiful earrings and clothes from my parents and Pres got me earrings and flip flops. I also got some cash to buy myself-not Preston, more clothes. My cousin made me a beautiful collage with pictures of Preston and I together which of course made me cry. I will be hanging in my office. She is so creative! Then we went to dinner at a great Italian place. A big Happy Birthday to my birthday buddy Marrah (kind of amazing we share a birthday-which was so much fun when we were in college) and to Mike Mallison!