almost!

 ...I haven't started decorating yet...I had ordered new icicle lights for the living room windows because a few burnt out last year, and they were 40% off.  Well.  They end with the little plug dangling, designed to go end-to-end, and if you want to reach that plug down to your outlet on the lower wall, well.  So I need some extension cords.  At this point, it would be cheaper to return them and get normal lights, but also too much work?  So I'll run into Walmart today while Camille is in class.  (Ha, right?  "run into Walmart", as if they haven't just moved everything around and made it even more of a rat maze.  As if I could even run....)

Baby Blythe is three now, but she's still baby Blythe...

Wulf and his little cousin Ellis

Cam with baby Jovi, and Margaret showing the kids how to play the trumpet

Anya sent me this picture, she helped me watch baby Bridget yesterday while Evelyn had an appointment.  (We went to Target afterward, and had too much fun!)

Then yesterday afternoon, Sonja and Kaia, Char and Cam and I went to Texas Roadhouse, as per Cam's birthday request.  We had a blooming onion, and oh was it yummy.  Kaia was like a little octopus at the table, with all of her arms reaching and grabbing.  She's so cute though, and we had rainbow Goldfish for her.  (She also likes real food!). She got my empty cup, and thought she had something good.  

This fine morning, I had to get up out of bed and bring Miss Cam to get her hair cut...I forgot my phone, and waited in the truck for her for an hour and a half.  I don't get bored, so I was fine.  I hopped out several times to stretch, so some heel stretches, move a bit (by "hopped out" I mean climbed gingerly out.). I had lots of napkins in my purse, so wiped things down on the dashboard.  I wrote a Christmas list on the back of a receipt.  I was glad to see her come out with her new hair, but I wasn't bored.

Home...ahh, home.  I did some laundry, and puttered, then sat down in my comfy chair, then Jonathan stopped in for a visit!  I was talking to him, and Abigail face-timed so I could see baby Nicole.  :)

Before I knew it, I had to leave again with Cam so she could go to class.  We stopped at Byrne Dairy for our free coffee refills, then I went to Walmart to get a few extension cords and a surge protector multi plug, for Christmas lights.  Shh, I also bought two ornaments, downsizing harrumph.

Cam and I went to Aldi together after class, we got a chuck roast for tomorrow's dinner, and some of those cute little mini potatoes.  We got milk, and marked down pumpkin spice popcorn, and a cauliflower crust pizza.

Home...I made a big salad with arugula, mini cucumbers, craisins, walnuts, and lime juice and olive oil, and some salt.  The pizza is in the air fryer oven.  Cam is making rice noodles with peanut sauce.  :)

Tomorrow, Miss Kaia is coming over, and I think Kathryn is coming with her five little ones.  I will have that roast in the crock pot, mmm.  I need to clean the floors but I am too tired...maybe I'll fit it in after the pool tomorrow before Kaia gets here...

Ahh...I thought I was tired, but Kathryn was going out for some groceries with just her new baby, so I went along and helped her.  I pushed the cart while she carried little Jovi.  It was great fun, I got a turkey to eat this weekend, we have been really wanting a turkey dinner!  I also got one for Thanksgiving, 48 cents a pound!  

Home again...ahh!