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Wednesday:

William rode the bus to school. I dropped Grace off at preschool at 9:30 and headed to Linton. Deposited Vince's check. Went to the grocery store. Was even actually able to get the groceries put away before picking up Grace. I don't really remember what we did after that or even Wednesday evening.

Thursday:

William rode the bus to school. Grace went to preschool and I went back to Linton. Paid the truck payment and took stuff back to Wal-Mart. Picked Grace up and went home. Vince came home and Grace & I went with him to the doctor. Once we were done there, we headed to Shakamak for the Kindergarten Round Up. I still can't believe I'm letting her go. We spent well over an hour and 20 minutes there. Seems there was an afternoon rush. Anyway, she did really well and interacted with each of the 3 teachers very well. So I'm not going to request a teacher like I did with William. He was a fickle one and would only talk to Mrs. Boyd. Grace...she likes all 3 and pretends to be them when she's playing school at home. We were there so late that we grabbed William as he walked by to get on the bus. When we were done at the round up, we headed home, grabbed a bite to eat, changed clothes and headed to soccer practice. Grace really seems to like it. William threw her ball at her and hit her in the nose though. That was bad. He got yelled at and she cried. He almost cried.

Friday:

Grace and I took William to school. Then we went to the church. I put a movie on for her (Veggie Tales) and proceeded to bag up as much of the snacks and I could get to fit in the 2 totes we have upstairs. We were there a couple of hours. We left there and I seen Beth & Larry out at their house so we went there. I wanted to make sure it was ok for me to take the trash from upstairs and put it in the dumpster at the daycare. They took it with them.

Then Grace and I headed to Linton, I needed ink for the printer. I decided that I might as well go on to Terre Haute and buy more bulletins as well. I called my mom and they were at Stoll's eating breakfast so we stopped by there. She was with Missy so I didn't ask her to go with us. Grace pulled Triston right out of his chair. No wait. She pulled him over booster seat and all. Bad part was...the booster seat was strapped to the chair. Poor kid couldn't get up on his own. I made a quick exit after that. Grace was really ticking me off. I decided that we would try to meet Daddy for lunch. I stopped by Subway and grabbed her a kids meal and headed that direction. We got there 10-15 minutes early. I would up letting her sit in the middle and went ahead and started her eating. She absolutely LOVES pepperoni sandwiches. It cracks me up. And her choice of toppings? Get this one: lettuce, pickles and black olives. What a crazy kid. =)

When it was time for Vince to go back, we headed toward The Open Door to get bulletins. Grace played in the kid section while I picked out a few packages of bulletins. Then she tried to get me to buy her a toy. Everything she wanted was well over $15 and I wasn't doing that. I did finally let her buy 2 balloons. Then we headed home. We got side-tracked at the Saturn dealership though. I mentioned test driving one and she threw a fit that she wanted to (I had changed my mind and was going to just go home). So we spent AN HOUR there. I was so not happy. There is no sense is spending an hour at a dealership just to test drive a car. And then to top it off....the sales guy calls us that night and the next day to 'see if I had any questions'. No. Your No Haggle, No Hassle policy really turns me off when the Saturns are the same price and the other makes/models and at least THOSE GUYS come down (usually)! And I really wasn't as impressed with it as I thought I was going to be. I test drove the Saturn Outlook. They classify it as a cross-over. It's cross between a SUV and a mini-van. It was nice, but the plain jane model was $30,000. And you have to be a contortionist to adjust the seat back. Oh well. I have no intentions of buying a vehicle until the truck is paid off anyway.

We got home maybe 45 minutes before William got home from school. Actually, I think it was a lot closer than that. And that made me mad too. I told the guy that I had to get home to pick up my son. Grr..

I didn't make anything for Bible Study. We did go though. Larry Sr. is teaching again and going over Revelation and coinciding it with current events. It's rather interesting. Vince went to a prayer meeting at the Church of God prior to us going to Bible Study. That really seems to be helping him.

Saturday:

We got up bright and early. We had to be at the soccer fields by 9am for Grace's first game. She did really well for never playing before. I had to keep bribing her with a doll though to get her to keep up. She's not use to running around like that, even though she is the more active of our 2 kids. William did amazingly well at his game. Come to find out, he heard us bribing Grace and played his guts out. When the game was over...he asked if he could get something too. lol! What a smart kid.

When the game was over, we headed to Wal-Mart. Grace picked out a Cabbage Patch doll. It's face gets 'messy' when you wipe it's cold popcicle over it's face. Then it has a 'warm' washcloth that cleans it's face up. It's their mid-size doll. William got a dinosaur that is supposed to walk across the floor, but it doesn't so we are going to have to take it back.

Then we headed to Pizza Hut. Grace had a book-it coupon to use. We all got the buffet. I was amazed that we all ate for under $20!

We went home after Pizza Hut. I changed my clothes into short and a tank top and mowed the yard. The kids played outside for a while and then went inside. Vince went and helped the Zimmerman's move. My mom came up and watched the kids while I went to a Secret Sister event. We went to Stoll's and ate dinner. She was still there when I got back. I wasn't happy. She hadn't eaten dinner yet and it was after 8 when I got home. Oh well.

Sunday:

It's back to work for me. It wasn't too bad of a day. I had a lot of problem logs, but it didn't seem to bad. Vince and the kids made it to Sunday School. Vince said the morning service was awesome. It was all the Holy Spirit. I guess they didn't get a chance to even preach. We went to church when I got home. I ran the computer. Alter Addicts did the praise and worship. Brother Bo preached. It was a good service too. One of our teenagers started the preaching out. She's on FIRE!

Monday:

At work again. Today is Cheryl's first day on days. It went really smooth. I noticed that Mark didn't spend as much time on the phone as he usually does. Don't know if that was because Cheryl is here or not. As long as he's helping answer the phone, I really don't care! It was an unusual Monday. The phones were unusually quiet. Maybe that was because a 3rd person was helping? Who knows.

I met the family over at Graham and Marcy's for supper. She fixed the mushrooms that Graham found on Sunday. William even likes mushrooms! I couldn't believe it! Vince left for the prayer meeting almost as soon as I walked in the door. I left Marcy's around 7:45. Took the kids home, got Grace in the tub. Let them watch a little tv and then headed them to bed. I think they were finally in bed at 9:20 and I wasn't far behind them!

Tuesday:

It's been an unusually quiet day at work again today. Not sure what is going on there. Cheryl is most likely going to be taking over lotus notes which I think is awesome. That will be much better for everyone...especially the people who need stuff done!

I am going to be moving my blog to WordPress. The url is http://thehouses.wordpress.com/. This will most likely be my last post here at BraveJournal. From now on...check out http://thehouses.wordpress.com. I will be moving all my previous posts (all 504 of them) to my wordpress blog. That will take me a while. I really like how Word Press is laid out. At the side, you can choose whatever month you want to view and read just that month or whatever.

Now my website is NOT moving. It is still http://thehouses.bravehost.com/.

The kids have soccer practice tonight. William's is at 5 and Grace's is at 6. I will be missing both obviously. They might get home before I do, but I doubt it.