Have a really busy week this week, it's Ellie's last week at her school so she has lots going on.
Oh, my...
Oh no! I hope he's alright.
He seems fine now.
CE: Sorry you broke Linus. That boat sounds fun but tons of work. Not exactly a "relaxing" weekend activity! Enjoy your alone time.
The dog seems good now. The boat can be work, but it's getting better. At first it felt like just getting everything ready to take up was awful, but we're in a good routine now. And it's nice to relax all day on the boat. But then I do pay for it - I have a TON of stuff to do today, since I was barely in my house all weekend.
Good Morning!
So last night I went down to see the Fire Show which is part of the yearly Buskers Festival held here in town.
Very cool!
So Murph has this thing that takes old slides and loads them to your PC. She is thinking of going to Israel again. Mom, Dad and me went in 79. Here's in 7th grade:
Neat! I love old photos. Not that you're old...
We took the kids to the Drive-in theater last night - such fun! I haven't been to one in years.
Cool! We have one around here, but I've never been, ever, to any.
Anyone else got an early start?
No, considering we haven't even been OUT of school for a month yet, I don't even want to think about it.
This week is SUPER crazy busy, so I don't know how much I'll be able to post. B has church camp from 9-12 every day, C and A have Bible Club from 9-10:30, & swim from 12-12:45. Then Tuesday B has solo practice, Wednesday we are meeting friends at the pool, Thursday's dance night and Friday our church has a big festival.
I'm overwhelmed thinking about it.
Have a good one.
Well we did it. We decided to do an overnighter in Lancaster. We found a cheap hotel (Knights Inn, got decent reviews on Trip Advisor) for $64.00. So we are going to go up early Saturday Morning. Hit the PA Train Museum and then the Strasburg Railroad for a ride on the trains! Then we will check into the hotel, chill out for a bit, grab a bite to eat and go to Dutch WOnderland.
Sounds good!
See that space^^^^^^^^
That's where my picture of the new patio should be. It rained all day Saturday, so nothing got done. Doug goes back to work in the morning. (I am very happy about this!) I am assuming that it will not be done until this next weekend. They will work on it some after work each day this week if it doesn't rain.
Darn weather. Hope it gets done, soon.
Anyone remember me posting about the whole fence issue - with the neighbor's fence way over the property line? We never asked them to move the fence and thought we would just wait and see what happened between the neighbor next to us and them. They moved the fence about 2 weeks ago. Didn't say anything to us about it. I just heard some hammering and some people were back there moving it. We now have about 20 feet more yard, across the entire yard. We showed my bil and sis and they said that property is the same size as their backyard.
Ooh, I'm glad that resolved well.
No word from NotBob today. He's flying to some other island (don't know which) to see some customers and won't be back to Tokyo until Tuesday night(???? or was it Wednesday night????) I don't know. He's fine though.
Hope everyone is good.
I give up when he's over there - I can never figure out what day he's where, etc.
Nipped into town this morning, got Jess a couple of little bits for her Birthday, then we did the supermarket and were going to have lunch before we went and played some golf. But we were so quick we went straight there and have just had lunch now!
Not bad!
My boy is back, my boy is back, my boy is back! As always, there's some reprogramming to be done, but he came home very happy to be back and said he missed me "sooooo much!"
HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a laundry basket full of miscellaneous small items I want to bring. I'm tempted to make my trunk one big Owner's Locker by just tossing the basket, another basket full of clothes, some groceries and the pile of paper in and hitting the road.
There you go...
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We had a good day with our friends on the boat.
I would have some pictures, but D & I both forgot the camera. Then... When we got home, D said, "Where IS the camera." After a full search, we think it pretty much HAS to be tucked away on the boat.
I am hopeful, because otherwise it's just gone. Sigh. He says he took it a week ago today, when he took the boys by himself and I stayed here to clean, do the dentist, etc. I haven't seen it since - the last pictures on the computer are from the 4th - and I'm usually very quick to move them over.
They came back in the pitch dark that night, so I bet it's stuffed away in the cubby and we just didn't know it all weekend.
We all slept in a bit this morning. I don't know where I left off, but D got put back on a trip all week, so he left about 10:00. I did an Active workout and have just sent the boys outside. It's sunny and 70 - a little cool for July, but I'll take the sun, and hey, we still haven't put our AC in.
Woody is overtired and grouchy this morning
, but hopefully that will settle down. I think at some point we have to go to the grocery store. Tomorrow we have playgroup somewhere else, and then all 3 of us have tennis. I may try to arrange a playdate for Wed. D's not home until late Thursday.
Mostly, though, I'm hoping for a quiet week (sorry, Jo & Dawn
) as we do go up to the lake for the rental house week on Sunday. I need to get ready for that, the boys have a birthday party to go to Saturday...
The rental house has us bringing our own sheets, and I have to figure out the sleeping arrangements. There are three bedrooms in the house - two have queen beds (no problem, our guest bed is a queen, so I have sheets for that.) The third has a double and a twin. We have no twin beds in my house, but 3 doubles (both kids' beds and the pullout), and then there's a "bunkhouse" that has something like 4 twin beds and two doubles.
There's the four of us, FIL & stepMIL, and BIL and futureSIL. FIL & MIL won't sleep in the queen bed together at my house, saying that they're too used to the king, so generally he sleeps in the queen and she takes the double pullout. (Don't get me started, she drives me insane...) So, I don't know if I should tell them to sleep in the bedroom that has the double and the twin, and go buy some twin sheets?
The four of us will be there from Sunday - Thursday alone, so that's no issue. But then FIL, MIL, BIL and SIL arrive Thursday night and we have three nights like that. The boys SAY that they want to sleep in the bunkhouse, but I don't know if they'll really feel comfortable with that or not. It's the best if they do - then BIL and SIL can have the other queen, MIL and FIL in the room with two beds, and the boys in the bunkhouse on the double for which I have sheets.
Does that sound reasonable? FWIW, MIL and FIL have two guest rooms, one of which has a day bed with a trundle and the other has only 2 twins, so I don't feel bad asking one of them to sleep on a twin.
(And yes, I do see the irony of her then saying my queen guest bed is too small.)
Rough Night last night only got a couple of hours sleep !!
I started back to school supply shopping Walgreens and CVS so far !!
But none of the stuff they had today is stuff Jimmy needs!
I swear their animals like my yard better. The horses eat the grass on my side of the fence. The cats keep draggin' their babies over hear. Oh and the chickens like my yard too. I told Doug if I start finding chicken poop on any of my stuff, some chickens are going to end up in a pot on my stove!! 
Thanks on the ticker. 
My boy is back, my boy is back, my boy is back! As always, there's some reprogramming to be done, but he came home very happy to be back and said he missed me "sooooo much!" 
I am back to covering 2 units for this week. I have a headache and my back hurts, both of which I think are from stress
