Well, the summer days are truly flying by.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 My biggest stress right now is finishing lining up a nanny for this fall.\u00a0 We have a new girl who has agreed to come Mondays & Fridays, but that still leaves 3 days a week to fill.\u00a0 She has a friend she’s going to ask, though, so I’m hopeful.<\/p>\n
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So………. funny story……….\u00a0 in the middle of writing this, our nanny family (the Greenhalgh’s) stopped over for an unexpected visit.\u00a0 And during the visit they mentioned the younger boy (who isn’t actually very young–8th grade) wanting to help nanny!\u00a0 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!\u00a0 Yippie!\u00a0 One more step to having that hurdle covered.<\/p>\n
Anyway, back to what’s been happening around here lately.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 So, Chloe took a nap and JD and I chilled on her new (and AWESOME!) couch for a few hours.<\/p>\n
Friday morning we took a trip out to see the Baker’s.\u00a0 They have a cool new playground in their yard that I thought Chloe would enjoy, so we hung out there for a bit.\u00a0 It was a gorgeous morning to be outside.\u00a0 We both enjoyed it thoroughly.<\/p>\n
Friday evening Jen volunteered to come and watch our kiddos so we could go and see a movie.\u00a0 We decided to see Harry Potter which we both enjoyed.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
Saturday we had worship team practice.\u00a0 This was my first week back since the beginning of July so it felt weird.\u00a0 It definitely took me a while to get “in the groove” again, but it all came back to me (whew!).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Our vacuum has an attachment to clean the carpets, so she didn’t have to rent a cleaner for just one room…\u00a0 They came back a few hours later at which point Patsy decided to stay here for the night since her car was having issues.<\/p>\n
This morning we were up bright and early and off to church.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Not good.\u00a0 So, after we got home from church we had lunch and talked over the situation:\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
This afternoon I spent a bit of time cleaning the carpet in the studio.\u00a0 I was inspired to use the carpet cleaner since Jen had just brought it back and I hadn’t put it away yet.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
And finally tonight we’re having the three younger Greenhalgh kids over for supper.\u00a0 Tim thought it would be fun to have them over and grill burgers &\u00a0 hot dogs–we invited the whole family but Kumi had to work tonight.\u00a0 So, we hope to have a good time eating, playing Wii and just hanging out.\u00a0 I’m off to get ready!<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’ll post some pictures.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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