friday

watched the kids get ready for school---they amaze me, they march around like little soldiers, each has their routine, KJ keeps an eye on the clock to make sure she's on course, then waits until the bus picks her up to drive himself to school. since kevin works nites & is a zombie in the a.m., they know how to take care of themselves. on my days off, I just stay out of their way!
I did some more cleaning...bathroom, the old boiler tub we keep magazines & newspapers in, katie's trunk, a shelf of color books on the entertainment center...found the Gunnison County Colorado book we'd ordered...so getting excited about our vacation all over again...Kevin marked some hotels, I want to see a ghost town & the Black Canyon...
put together the Bunny Disguises for tomorrow's Girl Scout Tea Party...they weren't nearly as easy as they looked in Family Fun, but are quite cute & adorable. I just went ahead & made them & the girls can tie them on their animal. We might also make the Egginamals, but I just bought the stuff & shoved it into a bag, the girls can read the directions, or just do their own thing, which they are really good at & saves me so much stress. See, my stuff never looks like the picture, although I trace the templates & cut carefully & read the directions & have my tongue sticking out like Grandpa Vermal while I put it together. I seriously about had a stroke trying to make a Wiltons Billy The Blue Power Ranger Cake for KJ's 3rd birthday, there were all those stars, I couldn't get them the same size...he thought it was neat, though. I've never attempted a Wilton cake again. there should be a Surgeon's General warning on those things!
found & washed teacups, cleaned off the kitchen table, made Kevin & I lunch, took an 'adult' nap before the kids got home. Sorted the Girl Scout nut & candy orders & made my phone calls.
thinking if the weather holds will drag the table outside tomorrow & have our tea party in the yard.
and of course, laundry, laundry, laundry.
Mackenzie is spending the nite, tomorrow the girls have to dance with a costume change at Pearls II, then come home & get ready for our Teddy Bear Tea Party/Easter Egg Hunt. they had a tea party today & took Sasha on a walk to the school park. Sasha went to bed early.
Ms. Cuddles has been busy batting bunny ears all over the table, hope they dry so I can move them before I go to bed!

a new couch for the Dailey's

Kevin & I made a journey to Bethany & bought a new couch, moving the old couch into Kate's room. ate lunch at Toot-Toots & shopped at Wal-Mart. 4-H & dance class.

spring break for deb

I took off today & tomorrow, plus have the weekend off...so far, have watched the kids get themselves off to school, did some laundry, been on the computer, ate 2 fudge bars, & am still in my jammies....
I have grand plans...cleaning house for Saturday's Girl Scout Tea Party...(& doing all the million & one things for a successful tea party...I go all out on the details, I don't know if the kids notice, but I have lots of fun!)
Kevin & I might go couch shopping today since our couch has developed an ominous creaking sound when you sit in the middle...no matter how small you are...(I have been avoiding the couch lately!)
Kevin did the first mow of the season on our yard & his grandma Marie's yesterday. have flowers coming up everywhere, the trees are budding...looks like I'll have lilacs for the first time this year!!!

last day of spring break....

I took a half day off work, accompanied KJ & Katie to The Shear Shop, where KJ got a haircut & Katie got her ears pierced. She has been contemplating this for a LONG time. Kevin of course isn't thrilled with me (yet again.)
Katie & I took Sasha for a walk at the park. KJ had a basketball game with friends at the park. Sasha chased cats around the yard. Deb & Kevin went to Dollar General & washed the truck.
The sun is shining, life is good.

I'm burning up the internet...

I LOVE FAST TRACK! I can bombard all my 'sites' with pictures! at record speed! (beware...)

the kids are having fun watching videos online, too....

and I can finally get all my pictures in my Snapfish cart...which I haven't gotten around to yet, but I will. I will.

this is a whole new world!

after 25 years, kevin can still pull a rabbit out of a hat...we agreed a long time ago that we really didn't need fast track...but it is SO awesome!

(he also bought me 2 shower "scrubby puffs" when he & kate went to the city to the dentist, since the rope fell off mine & it is always in the shower floor...you just can't buy romance like that!)

weds.

kevin picked up katie at school around 11a.m. & they headed to Gladstone for her dentist appt & had lunch at Longhorn Steakhouse & visited Koren at her Wal-greens in Oak Grove. where kevin got a free hershey's candybar with his coke purchase & I'm taking a candybar to work! yeah, me! kate has decided it is too far to drive to the dentist & she will start going to Dr Cox in Trenton with the rest of us. I'll miss the KC trips, though.
I got off the day of kate's field trip, now kevin has to decide if he will take it off as well, so we can send our $ in.
while I was home alone yesterday, I tried to read my Belle Starr western, baked a chocolate cake, made homemade potato salad, let Sasha run around the yard, sat on the front porch, & cleaned house.
kj came home from play practice, then went to the park to shoot hoops & maybe to band practice. he's 'the groupie'. kj & I watched the new Scrubs.
kevin & kate bought Bedtime Stories (which we watched) & Yes Man (which we didn't have time to watch.)

wednesday

monday I overslept, had to hurry to work. decided to drive thru Ptown on the way home to get dog/cat food from DG. my first clue should've been when the parking lot was full. there was 1 checker, customers backed up to the middle of the store, so it took quite a while to get my couple of items, but visited people in line...Sandy that I worked with @ DD...kevin's friend Gary...Peggy that I work with now...kevin called me, concerned that I wasn't home from work. like I enjoy working till 4 THEN checking risers & driving a million miles home. like this is some bizarre passion of mine, like helping sandbag in floods...nevermind.
tuesday went better. even with all my laying around, got katie's Arbor Day tree from school planted...it had been lying on the kitchen counter in a walmart bag since she brought it home from school friday, they'd packaged it good,the paper towel was still wet! we put it in the 'garden'.
& now it's wednesday. kate has a dentist appt. in gladstone, I couldn't get it off work. they're going without me. I am a big girl. I can handle it. so, I won't get to pop in & see Koren for a minute & give her a hug.
kate's school field trip is to Living History Farms the end of April. will see if I can get THAT off...
she also has several dancing dates coming up...they will dance in the competition at Worlds of Fun May 23, don't have a time yet. I have to work that weekend. will have to call in dead or something. she dances on the princeton square another weekend I work...I think Kevin can handle that one. the recital & practice will be at Bethany at The Gym. sent out notes changing the time of our GS Easter Egg Hunt/Teddy Bear Tea PArty since they dance in Ptown that day.
practices next month change from Monday to Thursday, & they'll quit extra W. of Fun clog practice. she'll miss the last one of those anyway, with the field trip.
I should get a dayplanner, an assistant, & a maid, quit my job, & just drive to the various dance performances/practices/engagements. I'll also need a hot tub & a privacy fence, so I can just unwind when I'm home. I'll call Handy Manny. [I am the only one in my house who watches him...Kate falls asleep with a dvd on, & Manny's usually on when I'm getting ready for work, depending on what channel Kevin was watching before he went to bed...sometimes I get a rousing sermon or some paid programming for an exciting product that somehow I am managing to live without.]