I rolled out of bed, literally, waddled downstairs, and fixed a bowl of pumpkin pie and ice cream with a side of leftover turkey for breakfast.
Couponman made an early 5 a.m. Black Friday run. With all the ads, my guess is that he would not be alone. Upon his return, he proudly showed me his little bag of Pirate’s Booty — a bottle of water, a granola bar, and two pads of Post-It notes.
“Where’d you go?” I asked.
“Sprouts,” he answered.
“Isn’t that a grocery store?”
“Yeah,” he said. “They gave a gift bag to the first 300 customers.”
“Boy, I bet it was crowded,” I said sarcastically.
“Actually, not too,” he admitted.
The out-of-state visitors, Cheezy and Hot Wheelz, were still fast asleep. Eventually the family all came over again to revisit the leftovers. “Grandma,” said the Worm, “Aunt Coco and her…” She couldn’t find quite the right descriptive word for Coco’s boyfriend when they arrived. Finally, satisfied she’d found the right one, said, “Aunt Coco and her assistant are here.”
It’s Coco’s birthday in a week. She’s into her second box of candles. About thirty family and friends, more adults than children, decided to celebrate early at Pump It Up, a party warehouse with lots of giant blow up toys.
There were brightly colored bounce houses, jump basketball courts, a giant twenty-two foot slide, a boxing rink with giant blow-up gloves, and more. Music blared loudly to cover up the magnified sounds of wind tunnels.
I challenged Coco to a run through the double bounce obstacle course with crawl through tubes, ladder and slides. I came through the tunnel at blazing speed, took one small bounce and did a face plant into the ladder. I regained my composure and tugged my way up the ladder that looked like a mountain scaling wall, but slipped on the last foot support and took out two five-year-olds under me. Down the ladder video
The motley crew now sporting new bruises and slide burns all attest to having a fun time. Coco immediately abused her power when the blow-up crown and scepter was placed on her head. You could tell it was going to happen by the way she strutted when made line leader as we moved from one party room to the other.
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