Wednesday:  July 6

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• Maria brings her best friend Hannah to visit Dad in Texas.
• Airplane to Dallas from Detroit, unaccompanied Minors !!!

• Did I say UNACCOMPANIED ????
• Maria’s in charge- cuz she’s flown the most.
• Weird guy on plane, looks like a terrorist.  Spends waaay to much time in the bathroom…
• Surprises dad at home- almost knocks him off his feet with a big hug
• Hannah meets Elroy…

• Played locale (Game) in the afternoon.  Dad wins 20- 18- 8 6 (DKMH- in that order)
• Dinner at a Texas steak house- dad gets called in so we eat with Kashmir- and take a taxi home (Hannah’s 1st Taxi).
• Hannah likes Maria’s bedroom and likes Lizzy a little more than Elroy.

• Dad gets home at 11:30

Thursday:  July 7

• Dad wakes the girls up at 9:00 !!!!! 😦
• Coffee run and they are out of Strawberry shakes.  Maria bumms out.
• Waiting for the Foster parents people to show up for Dad and Kashmir’s interview.  They are nervous and just want everything to go ok.
• Dad blows it- mixes up the days completely !  The Foster parent people are coming in on Friday from Amarillo!
• Girls take pics with dawgs

• Mexican for lunch from Rosas.  Dad and Hannah crank out some Mexican tunes, and Maria desperately claws at the radio dial.
• Go swimming at a place down the street called the “Swimming Hole“.  Texas is hot- 104 today.
• Hang out at the house, make Chicken soup with Kashmir, and take lot’s of pictures!  First time making chicken soup ever!  Hannah and Maria “bone the chicken”.

• 1st glass falls and breaks.  (Maria)
• The girls watch “JerseyShores“ for the first time.  Hannah likes Paulie, Maria Likes Snookie, Kashmir likes Paulie, and Dad likes Ronnie.

Friday:  July 8

• Dad wakes the girls up at 9:00 !!!!! 😦
• Again !!!!
• Coffee run and they are out of Strawberry shakes.  maria bumms out.
• The Foster parent people show up and Maria and Hannah watch Kashmir and Dad get interviewed for 2.5 hours!
• Italian food at Stella’s.  Hannah really like the food and the place.  Maria actually likes the chicken Parmesan.  Dad does the Clam sauce linguini, and Kash does a turkey club.
• Dad gets the girls some scrapbook materials so they can scrapbook their stay in Texas.
• Signs them up for Scrapbook classes for Saturday.
• Pepsi Run- no strawberry shakes STILL !!!
• Different McDonalds- they have shakes- Maria gets one- Maria spills shake all over her pants.
• Girls get Dawg Assignments:  They feed and water the mutts on alternating days…

• Monopoly with Dad, he gets his butt kicked, and finally Maria beats Hannah.
• Kashmir gets the girls started on making Tutus.

Saturday:  July 9

• Dad wakes the girls up at 9:00 !!!!! 😦
• Again !!!!
• WITH A GONG !!!!!!!!!

• Maria and Hannah off to Scrapbook class, Dad get’s called in.
• Scrapbook class sucks.  Teacher is a scrapbook Nazi!
• Dad gets an idea for planning a mysterious activity.  A secret surprise?
• Girls try to hack Dad’s computer while he and Kasmir go out on a recon trip for supplies.
• Kashmir and Dad argue about stupid stuff, but fix it real fast.
• Hannah and Maria try to rip Dad’s fingers off the computer as they try to read the “history” to figure out Dad’s secret surprise.
• Dad changes password to computer.
• Hannah hacks it- and he ends up changing it again.
• Hannah and Dad have consumed about 5 pound worth of grapes so far.  Maria has trashed the gummy bears.
• Tacos for dinner.
• More work on the Tutus.

Sunday:  July 10

• Dad gets called in early.
• The girls finally get to sleep in.
• Tried to go to the Swimming Hole- but it’s closed for a private party.
• Girls get rays in the back yard.

• Dad Blogs.
• Kashmir works on Tutus.
• Maria does “Self Portraits“

• 2nd glass falls and breaks.  (Hannah)
• Girls write letters and send pictures to two Army guys that the family “Adopted” (part of an adopt a soldier program to send our boys overseas some care packages).
• Kashmir gets the girls started on making soaps for the Craft show next weekend.
• Dad gets the girls to sign a group picture to send to the Army dudes.
• Dad starts a chicken BBQ.

• Dad finds out the chicken is raw.
• Dad flips (yeah I did- jus’ a ‘lil bit).
• We watch “Ghost Ship“– Dad is the villain, Maria s the long haired dude, Hannah is the ghostly little girl, and Kashmir is “Das Boat”.

Monday:  July 11

• Dad works early.
• The girls melt down
• Nobody can make their minds up about swimming- so THAT gets cancelled
• First Family Meeting
• Hannah is more of a hermit crab under her blanket- than a real hermit crab.  So Dad put’s the hermit crab cage in front of her as a metaphor for the whole behavior thing.
• Hannah doesn’t think that’s all that clever

• Dad gets a “3” for his effort and especially heroic speech.
• Maria and Dad go around town (:  (Gotta give Hannah a break from us sometime.  Can you imagine- a Dad JUST like Maria?  Except larger?)
• Maria check’s out Dad’s operating room

• They come back with food.
• Meanwhile Dad tells Maria and sings like a Canary about the horseback riding trip
• Hannah is chilled out
• They play Monopoly
• The entire state of Michigan calls to make sure Hannah is ok.
• She tells them she is-
• Dad flips again and quits cuz’ the girls are cheating again.
• Hannah and Maria and Dad gather in the office- and chatter together like a small pack of conniving rats trying to figure out how NOT to tell Kashmir that the chicken has flown the coop- and everybody knows everything about everything to do with the horse and Canyon trip

• A lot of finger pointing as we get busted by Kashmir in the office.
• It’s a race to see who can throw the other UNDER the bus FIRST!
• Dad almost breaks the 3rd Glass (a bottle next to the fridge)
• Kashmir holds a trial (she is the Judge) and by the time it’s all said and done, Hannah and Maria get off scott free- and Dad takes the major hit and is GUILTY of everything:  Obstruction of justice, Misleading a judge, being a Dad, that sort of thing.
• Tonight we watch the Goonies:  Maria is “Chunk”, Hannah is the “cute girl”, Dad starts out as the mean older brother- but switches to “mouth”, and Kashmir is “1-eyed-Willie”.

Tuesday:  July 12

• Dad works early.  (5 hours of sleep)
• Hannah and Maria go swimming
• Kashmir works out and hooks up with the girls at the “Swimming Hole” and they stay an hour or so more.
• Dad gets out of work and goes to an Army surplus store to buy canteens for the Canyon trip.
• The girls make pizza
• We watch an early movie “Beastly“.  Hannah is the “cute chick”, Maria is the “blonde witch”, Dad is the “evil dad”, and Kashmir makes more tutus.

• Ice cream run.
• Brief sand / thunderstorm- really windy, air smells like rain and dirt.  Sky is a sick yellowish pink gray.
• Dad works on this Texas diary, and the girls are hanging out with Kash.

Wednesday:  July 13

• Dad works @ 9 ish.
• Girls stayed up until 5 am- woke up at 1:30 pm
• Girls help Kashmir pack and label purses for a craft show on Saturday.
• Watch movie “Catch Me if You Can” (Leonardo Dicaprio)
• Backyard for rays…
• Dad cooks up some steaks and Kashmir does some terrific sauteed carrots and twice baked potatos.
• Dinner is served as we watch Big Brother.
• And the Players are …

• Dad is Dick

• Kashmir is Jeff

• Maria is Danielle

• Hanna is Jordan

• Girls plan on staying up late and later.
• Dad crashes early- up by 5:30 tomorrow.
• Kasmir is getting to her goal of 12 tutus, and an ungodly variety of soaps.
• Dad figures out that the girls ran out of shampoo a few days ago- thought they were fully stocked 😦

Thursday:  July 14

• Dad works @ 6:30.
• Kashmir brings the great white beast home (Mutti)

• Girls stay up late the night before- so it’s a 2:00 pm wake up
• They are informed that even rock stars after a gig, hold more more reasonable hours.
• Dad & Kash run a bunch of errands- Dad has a longer day tomorrow.
• Dad snags Mara- and they go to Best Buy to get an early Birthday present.
• Maria gets an I-Pad 2– Black with a nice shell, and 64 gig WiFi.
• We all watch Big Brother.
• Dad’s guy ends up leaving so Dad becomes Kieth

• And that guy get’s booted- so now Dad’s playing the farm girl person.

• Dad let’s the great white beast (Mutti) out in the living room to get comfortable with the girls.
• Hannah is cool with it, Maria- not so much.
• The girls have forgotten how much time they spent with Mutti back in the day.

• And The Great White Beast loved her…

• But now things are different- and Maria avoids TGWB…  sigh

Friday:  July 15

• Dad works early- comes home late (after 7)
• The girls get up at 10 (preconditioning for tomorrow when they have to get up at 6:45 am)
• Girls off to swim
• Kashmir cooks up some burgers, and gets organized for the craft show
• Girls to bed early (but who knows how long they are up skyping)
• The household gos down quietly on a Lubbock Friday night.

Saturday:  July 16

• Up and away at 7:15 for Kashmir and the girls.
• It’s Craft Show Time !
• Dad sleeps in til 9:00 am
• Some of the products:

• And another…

• The Craft Show Setup

• A different Angle

• Totally in charge…

• Body Art (No they’re not real)

• Sign Post 1

• Sign Post 2

• A Car Show…

• Kashmir Craft Show updates:  3 tutus sold and 3 purses
• Home at 6- Girls are really tired
• Hot Pockets and fixen’s is on the menu (they hate Chinese)
• Girls stay up late (they got their 2nd wind thing).

Sunday:  July 17

• Girls are up late …  It’s past 1 pm and still hibernating
• Dad blogs-
• A day full of drama talks and honesty
• Clearing out the Facebook confusion
• The girls watch “Cyber Bully“

Monday:  July 18

• Dad is Off this week (well on super secret standby- only if the stars align just perfectly and the you know what- hits the fan.
• Errands with Kashmir
• Dad loves Kashmir
• A lot !!!!!

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The girls do an Underwater Photo shoot !

• The theme music from Jaws is playing here ….

• This is what a Mermaid looks like right before you drown…  Drop dead beautiful !

• Yippee Ki Yay !!!!

• I wish I could Skype This…

• Why does she make me do this?

• Wait “til we start Our World Tour !

• Kashmir rustles up some Potato Soup with cheese and bacon bits for the posse.
• Dad does the 1 hour photo thing and gets these pictures up on the blog.
• The girls get serious about their Texas scrapbooks.

1-2-3-4…  I declare a Puzzle War !

• 2 puzzles- 2 teams:  750 pieces each !
• Hannah & Maria v. Kashmir and Dad (except Dad isn’t helping much yet)

• Not sure what’s worse- Hannah and Maria together- or Kashmir without Dad…
• The girls look scared and shaken…

Tuesday:  July 19

• The countdown begins.  What seemed a long time a while ago- seems super fast now.   T-minus 6 days.  😦
• Dad is off today- blogs a bit while the family sleeps in.
• Kashmir off to the gym for a workout.
• Girls up @ noon.
• It took a cattle prod to herd them out of their room…

• Maria is grumpy
• HMU baby  (“hit me up” Internet slang for “Text Me”)
• Kash takes the girls out to lunch, some clothes shopping, and maybe an eyebrow place…
• Face to Face with the Wicked Witch of the West…
  

Wednesday:  July 19

• Today is LaserTag Wednesday (along with a bunch of other things).
• The plan is to go to The Main Attraction :  A rockin’ Arcade place…

Update:

• LaserTag Wednesday got moved to LaserTag Thursday so that today could be Sleep-in Wednesday and BBQ Cookoff day !
• Girls plan on sleeping in and then off to the Swimming Hole.
• Dad gets some rays and tunes …

The Rib Cook-off Begins…

• Dad’s entry…

• Kashmir’s Yet-to-be-cooked ribs…  Winner !

• And the rest of the day was drama free. (Yay)

Puzzle War Update !

• Hannah & Maria Win!

• Kashmir was Valiant– but dad was a TOTAL slacker on this project-  some token help is all …  Kash never had a fighting chance…

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