Things I Learned This Weekend

1. Don't let people stay in your home unless you have said home as a business. My house is a mess and I can't find things. Easy things I should be able to find. Like my cutting boards and salt and pepper shakers.

2. Houses look much better without dead animal heads hanging on the wall. We bought our house from a gent who used the house as a hunting cabin and hadn't taken down his trophies till this weekend. Glenn put the heads, and bodies, out by the end of the driveway. Within an hour a woman picked them all up and drove off with them just as Glenn predicted someone would.

3. Some people will pick up any old crap if it's free.

4. Spending time unplugged with your family just can't be beat. No internet, no television and minimal phone contact. Face to face family time rocks.

5. Pregnant nieces are a lot of fun especially when they have to take a break, while shopping at Sam's Club, to lay in a lounge chair in the outdoor furniture section.

6. When you buy a birthday cake that comes on cardboard in a plastic container, remove the bottom piece of plastic. It's very slippery.

7. When you drop a birthday cake off a piece of plastic it inevitably lands frosting side down.

8. Kids will eat birthday cake with the top frosting scraped off. So will dads.

9. Don't let a 15 year old boy carry a broken chair by himself even if he says he can handle it. He can't.

10. Holes in walls aren't easy to fix.

11. Memorial Day weekend yard sales suck.

12. Whomever decides when to do construction on bridges and tunnels is an idiot. Who closes part of the Lincoln Tunnel during Memorial weekend?

13. Patrick's favorite meal is lamb chops with Caprese Salad.

14. There really is no place like home.

That about sums up our weekend upstate. Aside from the the fact that I can't say the word "cake" in front of my son Glenn without him busting out in laughter, it was a great weekend.