Tomorrow we leave for our little mini-vacation with the
family! We have rented a house on Lake Palestine for a few days. The guys plan
to go out in the boat and do some fishing. I imagine we girls will mostly hang out
at the house and visit. I’m really looking forward to spending some time with
Gracie. She was still tiny the last time we saw her. We also are hoping to take
the kiddos to the Tyler Zoo. That was one of our favorite family outings when
our kids were growing up.
We also plan to celebrate Shepherd’s birthday while there. I
baked and decorated his cake today. I still have to assemble it once we get
there. It is 2 tiered, but I don’t want to transport it stacked. I also have
some last minute decorations to add that won’t transport well. This is my first
cake to make Shepherd. I hope he likes it. (Although I did do decorated cookies
for him last year, at his request.)
I’ve got all of my baking done for our trip…just still need
to go buy groceries to take. We are going to have a full load! We’ll be picking
Nam up from school at regular time, then heading to FW to get Sheila. I hope we
can fit everything in (clothes for 4, food, fishing stuff, fish fryer, toys,
presents, birthday cake and a few other miscellaneous items). Since we’ll be
pulling the boat, we can put some of the bulkier items in it (such as the fish
fryer, tackle and ice chests).
Dennis and I both had colds last week, so we really didn’t
get much accomplished. All of the sheetrock is finally up in the guest room and
closet. Dennis tried his hand at taping and floating the closet, but it is
going to have to be gone over again. He hasn’t got the hang of doing that yet.
We are sneaking up on another deadline for needing to have it finished. Dennis
was sure we’d have plenty of time before our meeting. Well, we are just one month
away and still have a LOT to do. I guess that’s one way to get a room completed…plan
an occasion with company coming, so it HAS to get done! Since we aren’t getting
any work done this week, we’ll only have just under four weeks to texture and
paint the walls and ceiling, lay the floor, do the trim work, put up shelving
in the closet, install doors, put up the new light/fan and move everything back
in. *groan*
We are all getting into the routine of school. Dennis and I
are enjoying having the extra three mornings a week. I am enjoying sleeping
without an alarm! The only morning that I have to get up early is on Fridays,
when I go pick Nam up in FW. Nam is doing really well in school! He enjoys it,
but it does tire him out. We are still struggling with lunch/nap time. He is so
tired from school that he tries to fall asleep in the car between Weatherford
and MW. If he does, then he’s grumpy when we get here and try to eat lunch…plus
he won’t take a good nap afterwards. If we can keep him awake on the drive
home, then we can eat and he’ll usually sleep well in the afternoon.
Nam wanted to help me today with the cake decorating. I had
to explain that this is hard work and that you have to be very careful doing it, so
he had to just watch and not touch. He did really well! After I was finished,
he wanted some cake scraps and leftover icing. He had a blast squeezing icing
over the cake and eating it. Then I got some wax paper for him to “decorate”.
He made such a mess, but enjoyed every second! Then I sent him off with Dennis
to take to his momma, so SHE will have to deal with his sugar high! Being a
granny is SO much fun!
Well, that’s all for now. I HOPE to get some good pictures
of our trip. I have a tendency, these days, to get caught up in what’s going on
and forget to take pictures. I’m hoping to have my hands full a good bit of the
time with Gracie and my three boys, though! I hope you all have a good
remainder of the week!
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