the weekend begins...

Katie was a super star in the PTO Show @ Princeton....any mistakes she may have made were simply adorable. she ended up going to spend the nite with Mackenzie, who will spend the nite here tomorrow. assuming Katie makes it thru the nite there. she is feeling better, but hasn't been much for sleeping over lately. I am selfish, but I sleep better when my kids are home.

ran into Melanie McLain tonite, she is going to make something & donate to the band carnival from M&M Apparel. thank you! I plan on cleaning house this weekend, making posters for the band carnival, spray painting 2L bottles for a game, making a 'ring of fire' with a hula hoop & red orange posterboard, & finding small rocks for a pet rock booth. and cutting up more old jeans for katie's quilt, maybe even hitting up a few Princeton businesses that may be open in the a.m. for carnival donations....in all reality, I probably will successfully take a nap or 2. I should set goals that are more easily attainable. getting kind of old to reach for the stars....

I am reading 'Shepherd of the Hills'...it is going slowly. haven't felt good for a few days, plus the stress of trying to remember to wear my new reading glasses...trying to remember where I left my new reading glasses...I especially love to lay in bed & read, can I do that with reading glasses?
plus, altho this is a classic book, a classic Missouri book, even...it is hillbilly dialect & frankly a bit dull. maybe we should've stayed & watched the play. the tour was fascinating. I guess Uncle Willie should've written the book, as well....he was a heck of a tour guide!

4th graders have to write a paper of some sort about a famous Missourian, katie selected my heroine CALAMITY JANE. she was going to JESSE JAMES, but someone else got him. everyone wanted Calamity, they had to guess #s. and my baby won!

I have the stuff to make homemade beef stew. will I?