Spirit day

Today is spirit day at Cades school. The high school football team (who won State last year - go Eagles!) comes to the school and greets students as they come in. And then they stay and help the students practice reading (it's called Reading with the Eagles). So cool! Even the mascot was there this morning. I snapped a quick pic of Cade and the Eagle



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Starbucks

I have a few minutes to spare before I meet someone, so I ce to Starbucks to kill the 30 minutes. Such
an interesting place. I wonder what each person is doing here

I've been eevesdropping on conversations. So far here is the business going on:

Two moms are getting together to talk about tshirt design for an elementary school

A young guy seems to be pitching an idea pretty hard to a middle aged man.

The guy next to me is furiously typing on his laptop; can't see what he's doing

Two ladies in front of me are discussing some past conflict.

There are various other laptop users here; what do these people do for a living that affords them the opportunity to work from a dimly lit, intoxicatingly cozy place?





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A round of school for everyone -- it's on me!

Yesterday, everyone... I repeat... everyone was at school. Cade was in 1st grade, and Jack & Claire were at Mother's Day Out. I was free! for 5 whole hours! It's been 6.5 years since I've had regular free time to myself... 6.5 years is a long, long, long time. To be continuously surround by toddlers. A long, long, long time.

But that's over! What a wonderful thing, this Mother's Day Out.

So what did I do with my new-found freedom? Painted. I painted the office in our house. Now for most people, that might be dreary drudgery. But I enjoy that sort of thing, so it was a fun use of my time. Plus we're getting our house ready for the sales market. What did she just say?

Yes, we're going to be putting our house on the market. Next spring. We want to move. But before anyone of you start throwing a fit like Claire Bear not getting her way, no worries. We're only wanting to move locally to be closer to our church. Right now we're driving 20+ minutes one way. And since we go up (or rather, down) there several times a week, it's quite a bit of time we're wasting in the car. And we're only going to be getting more involved as the kids get older (and into youth group). Thus we're looking to be within a 5 minute jaunt of Woodcreek.

We've got a big to-do list ahead of us. Thankfully, the landscaping is almost behind us. A little more painting, and then lots of sprucing up so we can get this house on the market. Despite all the gloom and doom you hear about the economy, houses around us have been selling like hotcakes (what are hotcakes? is that the same thing as pancakes?) A very small, un-upgraded house down the street had a contract within 2 weeks. A house around the corner sold in less than a week. There are a few houses that have lingered on the market, but I think it's because they are priced too high. So hopefully God will bless our plans and allow us to move closer to more friends and our beloved local body of Christ!

Landscapin'

We've spent this wonderful holiday weekend landscaping our front and back yard! I love doing hard labor (thankfully I don't do it for a living!) and so getting out with a shovel and working up a good sweat is right down my alley. I'm too tired to go take pictures of what we've done. So maybe you'll get a peek of those sometime this week.

Scott was great to keep me company while I worked, and the kids had a good time playing outside. They tend to not play outside if someone is not with them, so this was a good excuse to make them play outside.

And my mom cooked a slap-yo-mamma-delicious meal tonight; a perfect end to a great weekend (and a lot of work!).

Big girl

It's occurred to me lately how big Claire is getting. She has lost the baby look and is all little girl now. Here are some pics of Claire Bear while we were waiting for Jack to be done with speech.











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