the essence

Last week turned out to be a great week. However, if you're looking for photos, I didn't do such a good job in that area.

Amidst the busy early work week schedule (I try to finish most of my hours each week by Wednesday) we did manage to meet Aimee, Edgar & the kids at Barnes & Noble for Story Time on Tuesday. Addison asks to go but then when we're actually there she only really enjoys the singing for a few minutes & then would rather go play with the train set on the other side of the room.

On Thursday my parents came over!!! I was supposed to work 8a-9a but I THOUGHT I wasn't supposed to start work until 8:30 so I missed about half of my shift. oops

I also had to take Kate to her well-baby check-up at 10:30 so while I took her there my mom watched Addison & Rach & Ruthie came over to visit. I was so thankful that the appointment was actually fast! That almost never happens with ped appointments. Kate is fine with all the normal development & somewhere in the 50% for height & weight.

After I arrived back home we all went to, where else? Target! The land where anything & everything you don't need but want to own can be found! The rest of the day is a bit of a blur, as can happen when you spend your time chasing kids around. My parents did take us out to Tijuana Flats for some delicious nachos for dinner & once the kids were finally in bed for the night I took my mom to peruse the great deals at the mall.

I had quite the time the week before blowing through the gift card Ray's dad gave me for my birthday. I had a list of all of the items I was looking to purchase & I found great sales! My mom also found some of the best stuff while we were out & we both got the same kind of buzz just from shopping that I usually get after drinking a bunch of caffeine.

Speaking of caffeine, we did stop at Barnes & Noble after our shopping trip & relaxed with some coffee and magazines before heading home & watching a movie. Man, I sure did miss my mom being up north for a month.

Friday was another bit of a blur - I know we did some grocery shopping, took Addison to the pool, I taught several piano lessons, & Ray & I drove over to Hilton to pick up several checks (thank goodness our direct deposit has finally gone into effect).



Now, for this weekend...um, I don't think I did too much. I guess just ran some errands & Ray helped Conrad take some things down at camp. We had some good meetings at church yesterday & just a bit of work in the afternoon.

Now, I'm back on the phones today: 6am-noon & then 6pm-midnight today. I hate the 12 hours, but it's so worth it to put in two long days in order to free up most of the other days of the week.