She may be 2 but she still loves her “Bee”(blanket). I had taken it away from her and tossed it onto the barstool, I guess that isn’t much of a deterent if you are looking for snuggles.
I was working this weekend so K hasn’t had a party with a Happy Cake, she will have to wait for that, but she did get to open a present. I made her a doll carrier. She was wearing her baby on her back with a scarf, I thought this might make her life a little easier.
I finally agreed with L that today would be a good day to make a jack-o-lantern. I finished his costume at the beginning of the week and so he wants to be all ready for Halloween. We even raked leaves today but he was very disappointed that I hadn’t found any of the decorated leaf bags.
L is back at school, but the whole move has disrupted his routine. He is finding it a little difficult to settle back into school and is suggesting most evenings that he probably shouldn’t go to school the next morning. We’ve talked with his teachers; L doesn’t struggle with his ABC’s but there are other parts of Kindergarten that L has to learn. K enjoys having L home in the afternoons.
Last Saturday we went to the pet store and bought Bubbles, he is managing to stay alive. I’ve never taken care of a fish before so I had some nightmares about my great fish surprise turning into a conversation about death.
As for the grown-ups of the household, I did up another batch of salsa today and Lowell is busy writing cover letters so that he can send away job applications.
I just got off the phone with L’s Kindergarten teacher. She called to inform us that there had been a fire at L’s school this afternoon and that there would be no school tomorrow and, perhaps, also not on Friday. This was news to us! L has been battling a cold and he had a particularly restless night, so he didn’t go to school today. And apparently, we don’t keep on top of the news very much—the story is here—or else we would have heard about it in that way. I guess we live in a bit of a bubble.
Pam and I commented on how many fire drills we had been a part of in the years we were in school and never (thankfully) had to do it for real. L has been in school a mere month—he probably doesn’t even know what a fire drill is—and, had be been in school, he would have been fleeing a real fire.
As many of you know we gave our house a face lift. I am happy to say that the pile of dirt in the front yard is gone and has been gone for awhile now. Hopefully the garden that we made will look nice next spring and summer. The kids and I planted some spring bulbs and transplanted some perennials so that there would be something to greet us when the snow melts. It is hard to thing of snow and winter when the weather we are having makes me feel like I am living in Massachusetts again. Today is supposed to be a beautiful day so maybe we will spend some time outside again. The flower garden in front of the garage got destroyed by one of the painter’s ladders. I need to shovel up all that dirt and fix it, I didn’t want to do that yet since my impatiens look so good right now, but neither do I want to fix those 2×4’s when the snow is swirling around my head. L had a rough night which meant that Lowell and I had a rough night. Keeping busy in the fresh air will be a good way to clear some of those cobwebs from my head.
