DDA Chapter 27

[Glynis]

Morning, all! I have been hit with a horrible cold... on top of allergies! Ugh!

Today is bowling. My team has been doing so well!!! It makes it that much more fun!!! After bowling, I get to boil 4 dozen eggs so the kids can decorate them after school today. We are having a family Easter Egg hunt with Alan's siblings and all the little kids, tomorrow morning. I also have to make a batch of baked beans to take, as well. SIL is providing hot dogs, condiments, etc., and we all get to bring side dishes. Easy, peasy!

We have invited Alan's mom and her husband to have Easter dinner at our house on Sunday. However, I'm fairly sure that she will cancel. She's cancelled every invitation we've thrown out there since Thanksgiving. Oh well, at least we try! I'm making ham with a cherry-currant sauce, sweet potatoes, rolls and broccoli. Nothing too fancy, and nothing for dessert. MIL is supposed to bring something, but if she cancels, I'm not worried, since my kids will have enough sugar in their baskets!

Have a great weekend, everyone!!! HAPPY EASTER!!!

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

 

[PNO4TE]

Mulch Elves showed up at our house this morning at 8:30.

One of my 10 year old piano students and his father brought an entire truckload of mulch and did the front and side yards for me.

 

[my3princes]

Mulch Elves showed up at our house this morning at 8:30.

One of my 10 year old piano students and his father brought an entire truckload of mulch and did the front and side yards for me.

That is so wonderful You are truly loved.

 

[Glynis]

Whew! This day is almost over! Bowling was fun, and it looks like my team will end up either third or second place at the end of the season (next week).

I got the eggs boiled, and the kids dyed them this evening (we were really lucky and only had 4 egg casualties).

I've made a couple of batches of jello beans, and now I'm getting ready to start the baked beans. I need to get the kids to bed, though, so I'm contemplating getting up in the morning and doing them, then. The hunt isn't until 11:30, so I wouldn't have to get up too early. Hmmm, bed sounds good.

Elin - I'm so jealous!!! I wish the gardening elves (or would that be gnomes) would visit my yard! Alan has been so busy, lately, that nothing is happening out there. I've done some weeding, but it doesn't look like I've accomplished anything!

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have happy, and healthy weekends!!!

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

 

[PNO4TE]

What a dreary day here in VA. Hopefully the sun peeking out later will help drag us out of the doldrums here in this house.

The front of the house looks wonderful, doesn't it? Well... you should see the back. Hopefully I can get out there in the next week or so to do some cleaning up of my three flower beds and make some decisions about what I want to plant this year. It looks like my ivy has taken over!

Have good days, everyone!

 

[mommykds]

Elin,
What nice neighbors you have!! How sweet!

 

[mommykds]

DIS is wacky..duplicated post!

 

[mommykds]

We have rain here too so no gardening today. We did plant last week & so far everything is growing nicely. We have basil, tomatoes, hot peppers, bell peppers, parsley, thyme, rosemary & cucumbers. We had to build a cage around the bed to keep the deer & bunnies out.

Today we are endulging in our favorite mexican restarant.

No counting points today!!! Easter day will be very weight watchers friendly however.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter weekend!

 

[MrsHeg]

Good morning,

Happy Easter weekend everyone!

Elin - how wonderful, the yard looks great, it doesn't surprise me at all that someone would do that for you, you reap what you sow

Glynis - sounds like a great weekend, I hope everyone is feeling better

Becky - Have a wonderful trip

The kids will be coming over today for our annual egg dying event, we'll see how many get broken this year, Aubrey is still pretty rough.

 

[tmfranlk]

Good morning, DDA!

Elin - How sweet! They did a nice job.

Glynis - Happy egg hunting today!

Anne Marie - How was the Mexican food? My favorite!

Deb - How did the end of your crazy-week go?


I spent yesterday finishing cleaning up the dining room and filing nine million papers. I did recycle 7 grocery sacks worth of paper in the process too. Now ALL of my Scout papers (troop, Neighborhood and Day Camp) are under control and organized as well as Terra's school stuff, all of our personal paperwork, and cards, photos, etc. Whew! That was a LOOOONG time in coming and I feel SO much better. I've still got a few boxes of stuff to sort out, but it's mostly Scout craft stuff and the likes so no where near as bad.

My aunt, uncle and 2 cousins arrived last night walking in the door asking "are those the tornado sirens?" Yep, our crazy winter/spring weather still abounds. The two storm cells went north and south of us, but a tornado hit the airport pretty good and it is closed for a few days. Hopefully opening by Thursday, though, as Phil is flying to NY for the day. There were also several houses levelled and or heavily damaged in a few areas. This has been one crazy time. The tornados and hail don't usually hit us this hard, but we've had sirens probably a dozen times since New Year's Eve when tornados touched down a mile or so from us. I'm done with this craziness already!

Today we're Easter Egg hunting at the church (inside, I'm sure!), baking desserts, dying eggs and just hanging out. I'm looking forward to it after the crazy week. Tomorrow is just the Bunny, church and lunch before family hits the road for home.

Happy Easter everyone!

 

[my3princes]

Good Morning. Yep it's still morning I slept in and feel like I caught up a bit on sleep. I survived Hell week and start my regular hours next week. Of course with 3 boys doing sports there is at least one game every night plus one on Saturday, some nights 2 games in different places and add in misc practices for the third. Thank goodness I have family close by to help with the transporting and cheering. Our diet is going really well, I'm averaging a one pound per day loss and Chris a bit more. That should continue for the first 2 weeks then things will slow a bit. I'm pleased that it is working though. We'll do Easter dinner tomorrow and Mom is cooking a ham. I'll make green beans and fried eggs for Chris and I so we can partake without going off plan. Tonight we are taking my parents out to dinner for their 45 Wedding Anniversary. Since we're going to the restaurant that I work at I know that I can stay on plan there too I need to power clean our house today as I haven't touched it in weeks (I wonder why) I had order a couple of things from Amazon for the boys for Easter and they haven't arrived. Thankfully I have a backup plan for the baskets and I'll give the boys what I ordered from us when they get here. It's things that they need so it's all good.

 

[Disney Yooper]

Mulch Elves showed up at our house this morning at 8:30.

One of my 10 year old piano students and his father brought an entire truckload of mulch and did the front and side yards for me.

It looks awesome. How sweet of the student and his father.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Elin-that looks great! How nice of the student and his father!

Hope everyone is having a good night..Im just relaxing and watching the baseball game. Things are good here in NJ

 

[PNO4TE]

Good morning, DDA!

 

[Tammi67]

 

[tinknme]

Happy Easter my friends!

 

[my3princes]

Happy Easter

 

[mommykds]

Happy Easter!!!