Here we have our third, fourth grade runner crossing the finish line of his first Cross Country meet. He was so cute the night before with his enthusiasm and strategy for how he was going to best his competition. In the rush of activity that's one question I haven't asked him yet and will hope to remember to tomorrow, how his strategies pre race played out during the race? I'd say he finished just a bit above the middle of the pack and is plotting how he can get stronger for his next race. Tonight: "Mom, do you know how many times I'd have to run around the house to reach a 1/4 mile?" (-:
Speaking of tonight...kind of a little milestone...we left the kids with some Hot-n-Readies (I know, we're generous like that) while we went out to dinner by ourselves...no hired sitter!!!
We thought we had a coup on our hands with that genius move, after all, it was early in the evening, right when they got home from the meet and they'd all be on their computers/gadgets and t.v. after a long day. Sitting zombies right and we'd be home for bedtime. Well...
See this room here? SP stayed home from our Yoop trip (U.P. for those not in the know) due to lots of travel this past summer to work and paint this room, it's a big one with tall ceilings, BIG job. And yes, even though I spent a total of 6 hours (for me that's waaaayyyyy too much time on such a job...gardening and garage cleaning are my forte remember) dealing with paint samples and pillows at stores deciding on paints and blah, blah, blah...so, even though all that...I ended up with variants of the same colors we had. BUT, it's fresh and clean everybody. Fresh AND Clean!
Lookee here, went from that darker shade to a lighter shade on the ceiling, beautiful. For some reason, I don't have any "after" pictures of the whole room at my disposal so this is all we have, plus it's still a work in progress, we've got the trim to figure out. I digress though, why am I bringing this up tonight? Oh, have I mentioned he PATCHED all the walls before painting, sanded, smoothed, mudded, I don't know, everything involved with getting rid of nine years of boys on our walls. Oh, yes...why did I bring this up tonight???
Right, we went out for our first dinner without a sitter, that dandy of an idea. What's the connection with the freshly painted walls? You with me folks? Yep, you got it. Big, gashing dent in the freshly painted wall because "Well, he wouldn't get off the computer." and "Well, he kept poking me and telling me to get off the computer, so I had to..." "And I had too..." "And," "And," . . .
Yeah..."AND"
Looks like we'll be calling the sitter next time.
AND...it looks like some boys won't have computer time for a while!
How 'bout a little smile, eh?
Came across this tonight in the ol' 17,000ish picture iPhoto library.
Isn't that just an absolute summer favorite???
And we'll end with a chuckle:
Thanks for sending it over, Lara.
Boy is that a funny app!
Have a great weekend, ya'll!
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