Me on Monday

Whew! It's been a long weekend--no pun intended!

My sisters arrived on Thursday afternoon--all 6 of them!!

I wanted to take a picture of them with all of their stuff like I always did for Camp Aunt Barb, but half of them had put their stuff away by the time I got this shot! From left--clockwise: Joyce, Janet, Jeanne, Janice, Sharon and Jennifer.

Don't think by looking at Janice in this picture that we aren't having a good time! Janice is having some serious cognitive problems and gets overwhelmed easily. When we're all together, it's VERY loud--more than she can handle. She didn't want/understand about doing a picture, hence the scowl!

Janice was busy snatching any phone lying around. She no longer has a phone since she kept leaving it at many places. Jennifer felt like it was time to take it away. Actually, she didn't know how to use it anyway. At one point, she had picked up 4 of our phones! She got pretty upset when we tried to get them back. We had to keep and eye on her to see where she was going to hide them. She takes all kinds of little things and hides them, or just moves stuff around. I didn't care--it kept her busy. 

The girls told me that she had tried to put the password in my phone too many times. 

I have never seen the message before!! Good to know that my phone can't easily be hacked!

The weather didn't cooperate, so we didn't get any pool time at all. Still we had fun playing many games. Stephanie and Mindy and the boys came over Friday night. The sisters were happy to see them and my girls were happy to see the sisters!! 

We ate a lot. A. Lot! We drank a lot. A. Lot! We talked a lot. A. Lot. We argued a lot. A. Lot. We even cried a lot. Okay not really a lot, just a little.

We can never all agree on anything. Stephanie made the observation while playing poker with us that we fought like kids---back and forth, very loud! I will admit, I made a comment that came back to bite me! During a poker game, Joyce and I were the last ones "in." She is the baby of the family. I said I was dropping because she was "too stupid" to try to bluff me!! Well, bluff me she did! I jinxed myself for the rest of the time. Still, all in good fun!

I did so poorly that I texted my friends a picture of sixty cents that I had left with the caption: "Well, I'm playing with some real poker players! Only the first night and I'm losing 10 bucks!" 

You might recall that I won quite a bit from my friends when we were at the beach a couple months ago. While at the beach, winning,  I sent a picture of the $35.00 I won from my friends to my sisters with the caption: "Like taking candy from babies!"

Connie "nailed it" when she responded to my message about losing 10 bucks: "No, you lost 10 bucks of OUR money!" Hahaha! Then I texted them that I needed them to come over next week to play poker. I lost $47.00 over the 3 days! Basically, that was ALL of my coins! My poker purse (which I inherited from my mom) is completely empty of coins!

It's been six years since we were last together all at the same time. We've vowed to get together every year. We can rotate cities--St. Louis, South Bend and even Salem, MO. We need to do it. We MUST do it. 

I miss them a lot. A. Lot!