Tuesday – 28 February

School – as always school took up the major part of the morning. I find that I can often finish with Arielle and Nolan before lunch. The older three boys continue to work in the afternoon. Hmmm…come to think of it, some days Arielle comes to speech if she still has work for me to help her with, otherwise she has 30 minutes of reading to do after lunch.

Speech – Stacia, Zander and I accompanied Nolan to speech. Zander had a BLAST in the waiting room. He wasn’t sure why HE couldn’t go back with Nolan to play but filled his time quite well with the Lego table and the other little boys who showed up in the waiting room. “Grandma” was smitten with him. “Grandma” is the title given to an elderly lady who brings her granddaughter to speech twice a week. She loves Nolan to call her Grandma. I felt so sorry for her yesterday because her 4 year old mini-van’s transmission went out. Of course, it is no longer under warranty. She watches her grandchildren, taxis them to school, therapy appointments etc. I’m seeing a growing trend in this direction.

Shopping – The youngest 3 and I headed for the stores after speech. We had a birthday party to attend and hoped to find the perfect gift at Toys R Us. Our Toys R Us is going out of business. All the water toys were 50% off. This party was for Adrienne’s 4 year old. We decided that some great water guns would be the best bet. We bought two for him, and then in the hopes of some awesome water wars at the lake this summer, we bought the rest of the stock as well.{G} We had a few other items to pick up so visited a couple of other stores and then headed home.

Mike – meanwhile Mike had been out getting estimates on repairing the van door. UGH. A window would have been about $100 but the door will be $400 to fix…..Mike called the “father from the park”. He faxed the estimates to him. The poor man is in shock. He asked to make payments. We agreed. Then he said, “I see you are a pastor at the base. I’m an Assembly of God pastor working with Teen Challenge out here”. Now, I really am torn. But his son did shoot our door and this is reality discipline. If the van wasn’t less than a year old we’d probably not fix it. Who wants rust setting in this early? Moral of this story: if you are going to shoot something…shoot the window not the frame of a 15 passenger van AND watch out for those pastor’s kids. :::snort:::

Park – Birthday party at the park. Adrienne does parties so well. This time it was a “wild” theme and she had wild animals strung around the park, great rhino games, plates, bags and forks with wild animals and little wild animals in goody bags. Mike stayed for the entire party with our 5 youngest children and I headed out early to make it to:

Ladies Bible Study - I continue to enjoy working through Beth Moore’s study “Breaking Free” again.

Shopping – Left Bible study and ran to wal-mart for a few more items. Then Mike met me at the mall’s parking lot. We left the Honda there for Josiah to drive home from work. He’s closed the last couple of nights.

That’s it – just the facts….