It has been a week since I posted. From the 15th thru the 22nd, I attended 5 football games. 2 HS, 2 flag and 1 boys tackle.
Our weather has been beautiful. I have had the house opened up day and night. This weekend were perfect fall days.
Dgd turned 3 on the 22nd. Her birthday party was yesterday at her moms pottery studio. Dd2 decided that since she would be having parties there, that dgd3 should be the first one. We didn't paint though.
This was a perfect opportunity for her dmil and dfil to see the business. They finally installed her soda fountain and brought the beverage cooler that she had ordered. It was really nice to just serve yourself fountain drinks. A different company installed a coffee and hot cocoa machines. She had wanted cappacino but they were having problems with those machines, so that will come later. Dgd3 was enjoying opening her gifts at her own pace and her brothers were trying to hurry her. She loves clothes and it is so much fun buying clothes for her. She is also getting into B arbies.
I don't know if I mentioned it, but dd2 wanted curtains for her party room. She had bought the material and borrowed her dsis sewing machine. Problem is, she has never taken a sewing class and doesn't even know how to sew. I ended up volunteering for the project. I have an old sewing machine that I bought 35 years ago and it was old then. It does nothing fancy, just forward and backward. She wanted the tab type curtains at the top. She had 2 different materials, one for the curtain and one for the tabs. I have a valance over my sink that is a tab type, so I used that as an example. The top, tabs and bottom are the white print with all the bright colors that are in the material for the curtain. It involved a lot of pieces. So there was a lot of measuring, pinning and ironing involved. I finished them last night. I am going to starch and iron them and deliver them to her shop later today. The party room has 3 windows that face out into the rest of the studio. Therefore, the curtains needed to be made as neatly as possible, because when they are closed during a party, any goof ups would show. I managed to avoid any goof ups. Yeah!!!!
Dd2 has hired a staff. She has several girls that are art majors at the college. A guy who has done graphic design and another guy who is an art major. Plus 4 others. I have come to the conclusion that I needed to be trained also, so that if she needed me to, I could run it. This is strictly a backup position and on call position. That way if she gets swamped during the morning, I can run in and help. Her gelatto case should be in today or tomorrow. She is being inspected by the health dept. on Wednesday and hopes to open this Thursday. She is paying rent and help and needs to start making some money!
We are leaving this Thursday to go to our hometown for my class reunion. I hate leaving her when she is opening but I have been planning this for months. I wish that I would have asked dh before I paid for his dinner on the formal night because he doesn't want to go. My dsisil didn't even ask my db, because she knew he wouldn't want to go. Anyway dh talked to our friend that he has taken numerous bike trips with and he had a group of 5 going to Fayetteville, AR for a big motorcycle rally. So dh will be the 6th. We are trailering his bike back there. They will leave Friday morning and come back Sunday. I have a hotel in our hometown for Thurs., Fri and Sat. Then Sunday we will stay at a hotel in dms town which is 30 miles closer to home. That way we can hopefully hit the road early next Monday. Now that it is here, I really don't want to go to the reunion but I hate to leave dsisil in the lurch, after we had agreed to go together. Dsisil had invited us to stay there but I just hate to stay at someones house that long.
Dh started vacation on the 19th and doesn't go back to work until the 2nd. He was suppose to work on the fence. He took down the fence on each side of the house facing the front. Went to H ome D epot and they didn't have enough of anything in stock to do anything with. So it will have to be ordered. Then we decided to do the back in the white vinyl also. So he has spent a LOT of time on the internet, trying to decide on which brand, which style, blah, blah, blah. So it looks like this will be more vacation than work. Then his friend from work that he went to C anada with, wants him to go with him and 2 of his out of town friends to Tiki Island off of Galveston, for a motorcycle trip on Nov. 1. He might as well, because if he retires when he is wanting to, these trips will be few and far between.
Dgd17 months isn't feeling well at all. She has what appears to be a cold, but dd2 made her a dr. appt today, to make sure that is all it is. I spent Friday night at the game, Saturday morning at the game and yesterday afternoon at the party wiping her continually running nose. I have been taking Airborn, because there is no way I am leaving town sick. Period!!!!
I am wondering how I will be ready to leave in 3 days. The house needs cleaned, the lawn will need mowed, the SUV washed, plus some grocery shopping and a baby gift. Guess I better get started, huh?
Sorry for the book.
Dd2 called and the gelatto case arrived damaged. She can't get ahold of the lady who has been handling everything and she has a shipment of gelatto arriving tomorrow. Her store computer is acting up. Her dh is going to have to put together the case and see if it works and what they can do about the appearance of the case. She is having a bad MONDAY. On top of that, they have the sick baby with them, because I'm leaving town soon, she hasn't expected me to watch her.
On top of everything my mind is always on ((((Okay)))). And that makes anything else I have written, seem like chicken feed. That is a saying from my dm.
Finally forced myself up and at 'em. Had plans to do laundry 1st thing this morning. Guess that will wait until afternoon now.
that goes on in our heads. Nancy could probably relate to that right now in triplicate.
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