Friday I did my nine hours in the PGX parking lot. It was fun. By the last 2 hours, I was pretty done, but I kept going. Barb apparently thought that I was doing 12 hours, and I said I could, but she said, no you can go home when you planned. Thank goodness! I grabbed some clean clothes from the house and drove on up to Beaverly where I crashed hard into my bed. I had made this dumb plan to go to the Fair again at 10 am on Saturday. So, morning came early on Saturday, and I crawled out of bed and made my way back to the fair to hang out with Jess for the day. (Jess is one of my new friends that I am making, I really like her). I get to the fair and mouth Barb off, just because I can. She looked shocked at first that someone was talking to her like that (Look here old Lady. I don’t care what you say, you have no control over where I park, you Old Lady) but when she saw that it was me, she mouthed me right back off. The other person working at the gate looked shocked, but we both laughed. After I parked I went and said hello to her nicely.
Jess and I hit the fair at about 10 am. We watched the dog agility shows – those are pretty cool actually! I have never watched one before. The dogs have been well trained to be able to do all that they do! And some of them were so fast! Watching a greyhound weave like an alpine ski racer was hilarious! We went to the petting zoo. Jess made me come inside with her, but I didn’t touch any of the animals at all. I took pictures of her though. The goats were funny: they would eat anything.
I felt my shorts being pulled on and realized that I had a small goal eating the strings off my cut-offs. He then moved to Jess’s leg and tried to eat her pants as well. They were mostly male goats in the pen, and they were all very pushy when she tried to feed them. I watched them headbutt each other to get into the place where Jess had the food. It was a good time. We had lunch and watched Elton John and Rod Stewart rock out to a crowd of maybe 50 people. They are called the Cross Atlantic Crossing and they do a really good impersonating show of the Beatles as well. Jess went home about 2 and I went to help in the parking lot for another hour until Mom came to join me at the Fair. She had told me she would get a Henna tattoo with me, as long as there wasn’t a long line up for it. So, we did! We got the same tattoo on our right ankles,
but at different places because of the shoes we were wearing. Saturday ended up being a late night as well, and I didn’t even go to the 27 Million Voices Fundraiser that I was going to go to! Mom and I left the fair at about 5 but still had to go grocery shopping before dinner. I again went straight to bed and crashed hard. My 5:30 am alarm came far too soon! I stumbled out of bed again and started my great Sunday!
I picked Nathaniel up at 8 yesterday. He was still sleeping when I got there, and you could tell his Mama just got out of bed too, probably when I texted her to say I was on my way to pick him up. We had a quiet ride out to Vanderhoof where we went to see Travis’s cousin and her 15 month old son for a little visit. Nathaniel actually played shy, hanging onto my leg for a while. I have never seen that side of him! I remember the first day I met him we wrestled with each other! But Desiree does have a big dog who was barking at us, and I know he is afraid of dogs (like me). Since he hadn’t eaten breakfast, Desiree offered to make us breakfast. She listed off all the things she could make him and he seemed to ignore her, playing with Zach’s toys. He then came to me, and whispered in my ear what he would like for breakfast, so I asked Desiree for him. He did loosen up as the hour went on, and he started talking away. Desiree had a hard time understanding him, but I was able to catch most of it. I don’t think Desiree would have seen him since Trevor’s wedding last June though, so that would be hard to get as well. I know I still struggle with most of his words, but he is definitely improved in the last year! Neither Zach nor Nathaniel are really used to sharing their toys, so they did have a little bit of a power struggle, but no one cried, so that is always a good start! By the time we left, both boys were playing hide and go seek without really knowing what they were doing. They weren’t really talking to each other, but they were laughing and everything, so that was good to see.
Our visit made me realize how little contact Nathaniel has with his extended family. Most of Travis’s cousins have kids. Nathaniel is the oldest of them all, but the others are not far behind him. Those kids could have so much fun with each other! I somewhat decided that I was going to do what I can to get him back into their lives as well. I want to take him out to Grandma and Grandpa Reynolds house one day too. I am now trying to work with Travis to get Nathaniel out to Quesnel for a visit with him as well. He says he doesn’t have any money for gas to even drive around Quesnel let alone get back to PG. And if Trav won’t work with me, I know his family will work with me to see Nathaniel so, whatever right. I want to see the Grand Reynolds again too. I had almost forgotten that technically they bought me my engagement ring. Obviously I cannot get too involved in the family again, but it breaks my heart how much Nathaniel is missing out on. As we drove back to PG last night, he was chatting the whole way. I told him that I was going to try to drive him to see his Daddy, but that I had to talk to his daddy, his mommy, and my mommy to be able to plan it, so it might take me a while.
He thought that was an alright idea. Trav called last night to give his mom his new number, and I had Nathaniel call him back. Nathaniel then told Daddy that he was going to talk to Jenna now, so we had a 2 minute chat. I told him that when he called Nathaniel the other day, Nathaniel had come out of the conversation with Daddy is coming to get me. He sighed and told me that was not what he had said. I knew that. We didn’t really talk about much else before I gave the phone over to Marlene. I then texted him and told him we might be able to work together on this whole adventure, he hasn’t texted me back. But he and Krystal were busy yesterday and my texts probably get him in trouble. At least yesterday was all about Nathaniel not anything else!Sorry, I keep getting sidetracked. Desiree and I visited for a while and then Nathaniel and I had to carry on to Grammy and Papa’s house. We got there about noon. Grammy was expecting some friends to join us for lunch, so we waited for them. Papa and Nathaniel, of course, found trouble to get into outside. After lunch, I went outside with the boys to see what was going on. I was examining the Pirate Ship they added to their playground and Derek came over to tell me all about the plans he had for it. Next thing I know, Nathaniel is up in the boat too, and they are pirates on a mission. Derek had said that we were going to go out to the spring to bring in some more water, but he was having such a good time! They were anchoring every couple of minutes. There were coyotes attacking the ship, and shooting at Nathaniel, who got hit by a bullet from Coyotes gun. They found a doctor on the roof of the cabin on the boat. Nathaniel was saved. They caught a shark for dinner, and it flopped about while they cooked and ate it. They found mermaids and bears. I took a video of it, it was so funny! Those two have so much imagination! Then the water guns came out, and they ran all around the property shooting at each other. Dinner was late, of course. Nathaniel and I didn’t leave the farm until about 7, when I had planned for us to be home by 8! Papa had been talking about the world’s biggest water bomber being parked in Francois Lake. So Nathaniel and I (despite the late hour) had to pop into Fraser Lake and look at the big airplane. I explained how it would fight the fires that were on the other side of the mountain making it smoky for us right now. He thought it was pretty cool. We ran down all the docks and boardwalks in the area and then got back into the truck to head home. We left Fraser Lake at 8. Nathaniel for the first time ever, talked the whole way home. Normally he is asleep pretty soon after we leave. We talked about how I don’t like that he plays with guns, because I think guns are scary. He told me they were play guns not real guns. It seemed like maybe he understood where I was coming from. Travis and my approach before was “guns are not toys. Little boys do not play with guns.” I am not sure, but I think maybe my reasons were more logical to him. We talked about how everyone was going the wrong way – we were the ones going the right way, and anyone going the other way must be a friend of Papa’s going to visit him at this late hour. He makes me laugh so hard! It’s even better now that he is starting to have a real conversation with people! He really is the sweetest little boy ever! We saw a bear just outside of Vanderhoof, and it happened to be somewhere where I could turn off the highway. I think he might have caught a glimpse of it before I pulled off the highway, but as I went slowly down the side road, the bear went in front of us. I heard a “COOOL” from the backseat. He says that he has never really seen a bear before. I was happy that it had been in a location that I could give him that as well. We then talked a little about how bears are afraid of humans, and definitely do not need to be shot either. We are just coming into the bowl when Nathaniel tells me that he is going to pee his pants, and he cannot wait until we get to his house. I pull into a gas station, and we head to the bathroom. Here we discuss the poop he is having. I have never talked to someone so much about the poop coming from their body as I did last night with Nathaniel. If the girls in the store could hear us, I am sure they were laughing so hard! I finally get him home, and his uncle had almost given up on him coming home tonight, we were so much later than planned. I had texted his mother, but if she was working, she probably didn’t have her phone with her to tell her brother the change in plans.
I get to bed at midnight, by the time I go to the house and get the clothes I need for today and change vehicles. I ignored Robert at 8 when he started meowing. I didn’t move when he climbed all over me. He went to sleep instead of needing to be fed. I got up at 11 but still feel like I could sleep forever. I am trying to avoid coffee today, as I had 3 big cups of it yesterday. Mom says she needs me at the house tonight, so I am hoping that we can finish early enough that I can watch a movie and still go to bed early. I should call Walmart today, because they told me on Friday that they would call me back within 15 minutes and they didn’t. I don’t feel like it today though, so I am not going to. I guess I will have to tomorrow. But, being this tired because I had an amazing weekend is totally worth the ‘pain’ I am in! My life is exactly where it needs to be!
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