October 16, 2006

• I guess I am not in a phase of posting often here! It honestly does not seem so long since I last wrote something, so who is messing with time and the universe?

  Life is busy here, as is typical. We just finished up a weekend of back-to-back, late birthday party celebrations. It is hard with both girls having their birthday so close to the beginning of school, especially at a new school where they don't really know kids yet. We ended up doing a sleep over for Becca on Friday night with 10 girls today. I think a good time was had by all, there was pizza, movies, popcorn and Madlibs, and of course great quantities of giggling and shrieking, that only 10-year-olds can manage. Saturday Becca's friends went home and a new group arrived for Megan's party, which included a pinata, lunch at Burger King, and the girls each making a stuffed animal a local place. By 6 pm on Saturday, Joe and I were totally wiped out and grateful that Becca and Megan were going to spend the night with Gene, so we could get some sleep and clean up.

  This week is a big lead-up at the girl's school to the annual Fall Festival on Saturday. There are pumpkin decorating contests, game booths, food and a silent auction with all sorts of goodies. I am supposed to help run the frog ring toss booth for an hour and of course the girls will be busy running around playing games and having fun.

  Today I am starting to sew Halloween costumes for both girls. Megan is going to be a black and white kitty and Becca wants to be a red and gold dragon. I hope to get Megan's costume all cut out and started today, since there will be a lot of other things going on this week as well. Megan has Girl Scouts tomorrow and I am supposed to take girls down to the beach to work on a project where they are learning about buildings. Tomorrow they will be making a sand city using found rocks, driftwood and such. This is towards a badge they have been working on.

  Parent-teacher conferences are also this week, so I have the girls getting out of school early for part of this week and all of next week. Whee! But on the good side, it gives both girls time to work on school projects they have. Becca is doing a book report and Megan is preparing an oral presentation on Maple trees.

  In other news, I was offered the job at Michael's, but it turned out I would have to be a lot of weekends and nights, as well as being required to work the weekend of  Thanksgiving. However, we had already planned a trip to Washington D.C. over that weekend as part of my birthday celebration. So I had to turn down the job and was a bit bummed about that. I would have enjoyed having an excuse to just be crafty part of the week, but then I suppose sewing Halloween costumes is crafty too.

  Oh, and I have also discovered this wonderful service called Dream Dinners. You go in and pre-mix up all the stuff you need for dinner, putting it into ziplocks and disposable pans, then freezing them until you are ready to cook dinner. It is so nice! I go in for about an hour, come out with around 12 or more meals and there are no dishes to clean up, no odd amounts of leftover ingredients, no shopping, no having to run out to the store again because I didn't have some unusual thing I needed for an ingredient. And the food is so good! We get things like pork chops with sweet ginger and apples and herb crusted flank steak. Everything I have cooked has been just delicious. I know I sound like a commercial, but I have been so happy with it. It feels like we are getting chef quality food and I am learning a lot about cooking in the process!

  So that is a brief summary of the current chaos we call life. I enjoy the fall and while it sounds rather busy, I think it is just trying to condense a month of things into one blog! We are really settling into the new house and the new school and routines and it feels good to have things falling into place. They have finally started to do our yard landscaping and it doesn't feel nearly so much like we are living in the middle of a dirt lot. I hope everyone is doing wonderful and enjoy the fall weather!

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