The week

Brit spent Sunday and Monday recouping from the play.  On Tuesday morning, I dropped her off at Karen and Keilee's.  They're doing a creative writing co-op in their home and thought Brit might enjoy it as well.  This week, they went to the Cook's museum before their writing, art and stop animation group project.  She had a pretty darn good time :)

I picked her up at 12:30 and the two of us headed to Berkeley Bob's in Cullman to meet with the Teen Scene group.  While the kiddos played various games, most of the adults sat in on an essential oils conversation.  Honestly, I think I'm going to succumb when I have the money and buy the kit.  I've heard so many good things about Young Living oils and really think we would benefit from it.    

 

Brit went home with the Crawfords.  Here is Esther's post about their adventures.  My kid is the blonde chick ;)

Dakota checked out a new site, Game Star Mechanics that I found while reading Karen's blog.  Thanks, K!

  

He's also been teaching himself the Dr. Who theme song on the keyboard.  He has been working on this for months.  I just asked Heather if she could help him since I am of NO use when it comes to reading music.  She sent me some tips that we're going to work with but this is what he's come up with on his own.

*Blogger won't let me upload the video :(

Yesterday we had an appointment that took...hours.  I'm glad Dakota brought his DS and a pad of paper and a pen.  Tic tac toe really passes the time.

Today was beautiful!  Sunny and near 70*.  Brit and I went for a walk/jog and she spent a lot of time flipping around the front yard.  Dakota and I took the radiometer out on the porch and had lots of good conversation. 

We worked on cleaning out D's closet.  His closet...it's the magical realm that holds an insane amount of science kits, toys, boxed sets of...stuff, art supplies, games, etc.  Oh, and even some clothes!  We bagged up three bags to take to donate and two were garbage.  In the last couple weeks, I've loaded up 7 or 8 bags of things to donate.  Half of those were my clothes.  Baby steps to declutter but I sure do like seeing progress.

Every morning, I've been working on Dakota's birthday presents.  More on that later!

Last night, Brit and I went out to with Sarah and Tori.  I had NO idea that on Thursday nights, Guadalajara Grill has karaoke night!  As well as some dance party, yo.  Brit had SO much fun!  She got up and danced with Sarah and Tori.  The girls sang a song.  Brit wanted to, but the song she picked, wasn't available.  It was Let Her Go by Passenger...pretty darn famous song, people.  Anyway, lots of fun was had by all.  I sure do love my girls.

I think that's about it.  We watched Monster's University.  It was SO cute!  I wanted them to make a second one, not a prequel but it gets my stamp of approval.

The week and camper curtains

This has been a very slow week.  Bobby had to work every single day.  No one has felt very well, and Dakota now has a full blown sinus infection.  I took him to the doctor on Thursday morning and they didn't call in his meds until Friday morning.  Pretty pissed off, I was!  At any rate, he's using his nebulizer twice a day, along with a dose of antibiotic twice a day.  They called in a Rx for these Prednisone dissolving pills that they didn't tell me about beforehand.  I called in to the office to ask about it...mostly confused by the steroids via Albuterol AND Prednisone.  They called back WHILE I was on the phone with Bobby and my cell phone didn't even register it as a missed call.  I just magically had a voice mail.  Damn phone.  On the voice mail, the nurse explained a bit and then said "Call us back if you need us or have any other questions.  We're closed now and won't be open again until Monday morning."  That's helpful...

Bobby has had a headache, and because of working all week is pretty drained.  Brit and I aren't 'sick' just don't feel well.  Stuffy heads and sore necks and joints.  Meh.  Plus, the added bonus of cramping...even though my period hasn't started yet.  I have got to go back to the doctor and discuss my surgery options again.

Other than a couple quick trips to the store to replenish juice and chicken noodle soup, and some bills that needed to be paid, I've been home.  I did look at curtains while I was in Walmart.  I know what I want in there long term.  I want some beautiful batik fabric.  Something like THIS or THIS but we have a camping trip coming up and we needed to get something up now.  I saw THESE curtains at Walmart and thought they might work.  I sent Bobby the link so he could help me decide and he surprisingly liked them a lot.   I bought two panels at $9 each.  Each one measures 40 x 84 so I cut those bad boys into thirds, sewed up the ends and new pockets for the curtain rods and viola!  Two panels was perfect to cover the three windows in the camper bedroom.

Definitely not what I want long term, but it was a good option for right this minute.  Plus, it was a $20 fix.  Last night, I FINALLY started getting excited about the camping trip.  We have a lot to do, but Dakota is sleeping and on the mend, I'm feeling a little better today, Bobby's home, Brit is made of awesome, and we have good coffee and today is just looking better.  So...there :)