Weekend Update

Well so much for keeping this updated every day! Here's a quick rundown of what we did this past weekend. After floor hockey and dance class, we went to the Liberty Christmas party in Dover where we made candles...

...decorated cookies...

... got tattooed (the airbrush kind)....

and listened to a very creative storyteller tell "The Grinch that Stole Christmas story". He was also a balloon-maker and every so often he would pull a balloon out of his bag that was in the shape of something that had to do with the story and give it to someone in the audience. For example, he made a balloon sculpture that was in the shape of the antlers on the Grinch's dog, a lightbulb (with an actual light in it!) for when the Grinch had his "horrible idea", a Grinch face with a Santa hat on (which was AWESOME!) and mouse ears for when the Grinch took everything and didn't even leave a crumb for a mouse...

The line for Santa was too long, so no picture this time. We were going to go get our tree after the party, but it started to snow so we decided to go home where we hunkered down for the night.

On Sunday, we went to Dave's Christmas trees and got our tree. I have awesome pictures of this, but they were eaten by my now-defunct memory card (sigh). Later we went to Phil's Christmas party at Lowe's where we finally got a picture with Santa... which has now been eaten by the stupid memory card... sigh...

Monday was back to school and work, followed by dance classes, cub scouts and Girl Scout cookie training for me (it's almost that time!). It was also the day that Steph got her script for the play which she promptly started highlighting all of her lines - if you can't tell, she is a little excited about the show!

On Tuesday, Phil got stuck at work and couldn't pick up Steph after rehearsal. After some scrambling, Brian graciously agreed to go to the school, pick her up and take her to dance class. He thoroughly embarrassed her in the school parking lot by yelling her name and waving from his truck to try to get her attention. Congratulations Brian! You are going to make a fantastic father-of-a-middle-school-girl someday! You embarrassed her without even trying! I'm so very proud....

Today was extra special - we got over 6 inches of snow! Which I had planned to share pictures of the snowman we built, but.. well.. you know the story... Hope you're enjoying that heated pool Mom and Dad!

Hello from Holiday

Hi! Thanks for setting this up, Diane.
Love the photos and stories you wrote. Ahhh, the life of a Mom... paper towel shopping. Oh well, your time will come! :-)

Enjoying being at the house in Holiday. I arrived Friday to quite a rain storm. My visitors did not come as Robbie is quite sick. I had a quiet, but nice, by myself. All at the house was fine when I got here... looked just like when we left it last. Did some shopping on Saturday and some on Sunday, while stalling for time as Dad's flight was delayed twice. He finally got in, 2 hours later than originally scheduled. I waited in the nice, big, cell phone lot at the airport. Didn't have to wait long since I had been tipped off he'd be late.

We swam yesterday -the pool was SO warm! 85 degrees. The pool co. had turned the heater on last week for us. Either they turned the pool pump's timer off on purpose or it wasn't working as the heater never turned off,... bad for the electrick bill but good for having a nice, warm pool yesetrday.

Oh, when I woke up Sat. morning and looked out our BR window, I saw that another screen in the pool screenhouse had fallen, spilling leaves into the nice clean pool...and putting $ signs in my head. gthis will be at least the 3rd screen we've had to replace this year.

Quiet morning so far. Grey out. Think we'll stay in today.

Hope everyone has a nice day! Love, Mom & Dad

In yet another city, doing another sports event, feeling lousy (don't ever eat a Reuben sandwich in Lexington), and just waiting for them to start. And, it is snowing here to boot. I am just so happy to be doing sports again.

dad

The Best Thing Ever

While three of us were enjoying a lovely pancake dinner with Santa at the elementary school, someone was going to her first middle school dance...

Apparently it was The Best Thing Ever. It was just 5th and 6th graders (thank goodness) and mostly fast songs. It was a huge improvement over the 5th grade social last year (which was "really stupid"). She is counting down the days until the next one.

Back to Pancakes with Santa... as soon as we walked into the elementary school, the parent of one of Cam's friends came up to Phil and said that they had just gotten 4 free tickets to the UNH hockey game that night and invited Phil and Cam to go with them. The same hockey game that was starting in less than an hour. After deliberating for a millisecond, the boys took them up on their offer. We stayed for pancakes and to peruse the book fair that was going on at the same time and then the boys took off with their friends. No picture with Santa this year, he came just before they were about to leave and the line was incredibly long. Oh well, we have 2 (TWO!) company parties this weekend, I'm sure we'll get a picture at some point.

After the guys left, I still had an hour before I had to pick up Steph so I went to Market Basket. Yes, that's right. While Steph was having a blast dancing with her friends and the boys were at a hockey game, I was buying paper towels. You can't imagine how difficult it is to keep up this rock star lifestyle I have...

In other news, Steph tried out for the school play (Alice in Wonderland) this week. She found out yesterday that she got a role as one of the Cheshire cats! As I understand it, the Cheshire cat is going to be a big puppet operated by 3 people - 1 is the head, 1 is the body and 1 is the tail. Each body part has their own lines. This was what she wanted to be, so she is very excited!

We've got a busy day ahead: dance class, floor hockey, the Liberty IT Christmas party and hopefully we're getting our tree. More pictures soon!