Three Weeks Since my last post

And what a three weeks.

S joined not only band, she plays flute, and meets during school hours but also twice a week after school at the high school. I have been shuttling her and three of her friends to rehearsal. Thankfully this is the last week for that.
She also joined Choir, which has rehearsal two mornings a week. She really seems to be enjoying both of these very much, for which I am eternally grateful.

M is really enjoying school, her favorites are bus, lunch and recess. She says her teacher is more strict (her word is meaner) than her preschool teacher, but she still likes her. We have been counting the days until her birthday, which is this coming Thursday, when she turns six.

Last week was DH and mine 20th wedding anniversary. He let me purchase this antique desk a couple of weeks ago as my present, can’t you just envision it stuffed full of little stitched items, buttons and fibers and and…

We didn’t do much on the day because he had band practice and the girls both had gymnastics. On Thursday my Mom and her boyfriend stopped by on their way back to Iowa and took us all out to dinner at the Blue Moose. Very nice, good food, a little noisy but even the girls liked it.

It started raining on Wednesday and finished only yesterday, I believe the total amount of rain was over 4 ½ inches. This was very important because DH and I planned a road trip on Saturday in honor of our anniversary. I asked our old babysitter to come home from college and stay over night with the girls 3 months ago. Who would have thought we would have October weather in September. So instead of riding the motorcycle, we drove the van, not as much fun but definitely drier. :o) DH planned all of it and wouldn’t tell me where we were going. It started out with us going to a bar and watching the Iowa State/ Iowa football game with a lot of other alumns. They lost, but we are used to that. Then we headed east, and ended up at a little B&B in Lexington, MO.

There were roses and Chocolates in the room for me when we got there.

Did you know that they roll the streets up in that town at 5:00 on Saturday? LOL We had a really nice time, with dinner, a movie and DH taught me how to play Gin Rummy, I lost. No TV no girls, just quiet. Very very nice !!

We found tired but happy, girls when we arrived home. With painted finger and toenails, new movies watched and a new puppy friend (Ashley’s) that they played with. So today we begin the count down to Birthday Palooza, M is not happy that I keep reining in her plans for another HUGE b-day party. But those only happen every 5 years in our house. So we are going out to dinner on her birthday and will have friends over on Saturday for hot dogs and cake.

I have finished a couple small Halloween ornaments and the pictures are in my Webshots album. http://good-times.webshots.com/album/566671740DBdXCD

Until next time, Thank you for stopping by and please take care of yourselves !