Black Sheep Done a Baa'd Baa'd Thing.....

I went to a family reunion this weekend for my mom's side of the family. Now normally, I would say that these family reunions are uneventful, not boring or anything.....but there's no drinking or partying really. Its just our extended family getting together in the park, eating some fried chicken and gossiping catching up. But this year, was a little different.

The Black Sheep was there...I shall call her Marisa*. I haven't seen her in over a decade. She knew she shouldn't be there (in this state I mean), there is a warrant out for her arrest. Well, she took that risk....alas, it did not pay off for her.

Apparently, the fried chicken was not good enough for her. She left in a pickup to go get barbecue at this little local hole in the wall place (Ok, I'm being petty here because I think we all, at one point in the day, went on a barbecue run). She got stopped at a police check point and was arrested. Well, that livened up the old family reunion. I swear I did not call the police.

Oh, I had threatened to. I had made an idle comment that as long as I didn't get to the park and see a dog tied to a tree with a small cup of water, I wouldn't call the police (that's a whole other story). But, son of a motherless goat, I got there and saw a dog....tied to a tree.....with only a small cup of water. Seriously??? Did I mention the heat? BUT, I swear I didn't call the police.

God, why do you test me???

I probably sound like a callous person, but the only reason I felt slightly bad about the whole situation is that it upset my aunt.

All that aside though, we had a nice reunion. I had to spend most of the time down at the playground making sure Z didn't kill himself. He's invincible don't ya know!

Me: Zander, don't do that! Stop!
Z: No!
Me: You are going to crack your head open.
Z: No!
Me: Get back here.
Z: No!
Me: Do you want to go get some juice? You look really hot.
Z: No!

You get the picture....he's a tot of few words right now...

Anyway, it all ended well. I spent time with cousins that I hadn't seen in years. My mom was happy because she had been looking forward to this for so long. It didn't rain. Bail was made. A hearing date was set. Just your run of the mill family reunion!

Zander did however get that croupy cough - where they sound like a seal barking. So he's getting some extra love.... and Tylenol and Benadryl right now.