Well, the summer days are truly flying by. I’m starting to feel the dread in the back of my mind of watching my vacation slowly end… And I still have so much to get done! My biggest stress right now is finishing lining up a nanny for this fall. We have a new girl who has agreed to come Mondays & Fridays, but that still leaves 3 days a week to fill. She has a friend she’s going to ask, though, so I’m hopeful.
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So………. funny story………. in the middle of writing this, our nanny family (the Greenhalgh’s) stopped over for an unexpected visit. And during the visit they mentioned the younger boy (who isn’t actually very young–8th grade) wanting to help nanny! So, it sounds like he will be able to come on Wednesday’s & Thursday’s–which means I only have to fill Tuesday’s now! Yippie! One more step to having that hurdle covered.
Anyway, back to what’s been happening around here lately.
On Thursday we spent the afternoon hanging out at Jen’s new house waiting for the Quest guy to come and hook up her internet. They give you a 5 hour window that you need to be available and since Jen couldn’t take that time off of work, I offered to come over. So, Chloe took a nap and JD and I chilled on her new (and AWESOME!) couch for a few hours.
Friday morning we took a trip out to see the Baker’s. They have a cool new playground in their yard that I thought Chloe would enjoy, so we hung out there for a bit. It was a gorgeous morning to be outside. We both enjoyed it thoroughly.
Friday evening Jen volunteered to come and watch our kiddos so we could go and see a movie. We decided to see Harry Potter which we both enjoyed. The only drawback was that we agreed it was filmed a bit dark so it was hard to see what was going on sometimes… otherwise, though, it was great.
Saturday we had worship team practice. This was my first week back since the beginning of July so it felt weird. It definitely took me a while to get “in the groove” again, but it all came back to me (whew!). Then after lunch Jen and Patsy stopped by to pick up our vacuum cleaner to do her floors in her old apartment as they were cleaning it for the final time. Our vacuum has an attachment to clean the carpets, so she didn’t have to rent a cleaner for just one room… They came back a few hours later at which point Patsy decided to stay here for the night since her car was having issues.
This morning we were up bright and early and off to church. Patsy was going to drive back home this morning, but after getting in her car and trying to take off down the street she thought better of it… the stabilizing bar had come loose and was dragging on the ground. Not good. So, after we got home from church we had lunch and talked over the situation: Tim drove her half way to meet up with Ryan who brought her home and the car will be towed back to St. Cloud later this week.
This afternoon I spent a bit of time cleaning the carpet in the studio. I was inspired to use the carpet cleaner since Jen had just brought it back and I hadn’t put it away yet. 🙂
And finally tonight we’re having the three younger Greenhalgh kids over for supper. Tim thought it would be fun to have them over and grill burgers & hot dogs–we invited the whole family but Kumi had to work tonight. So, we hope to have a good time eating, playing Wii and just hanging out. I’m off to get ready!
Tomorrow I’ll post some pictures. 🙂
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