October ramblings and more

Well, if we've been busier in the last decade or so I dont remember it. The weather cant seem to make up its mind whether to be warm, rainy or cold Last week, the whole garage was turned upside down and most of its contents ended up in the driveway. some things were thrown out and others were re-organized into tupperware bins. What a relief to see the ground in there. Some hens went walking by when Lyn was coming in and she overheard them bitching about what a mess it was. tisk tisk tisk
Lyn has been going to renew her RN license during most days. That leaves a couple of days during the week for Jackie, Catherine and me to hang out for a while. Catherine goes to preschool three days a week so a couple of days a week its just me and Jack. We've been going to his favorite coffee shop and breakfast diner each day its just he and I. After going to see Bridey and then Patricia we, of course, head over to Black Gordon. Today, we did all that and went to see that old Black train in the cold rain. We just love that train. As I said, Catherine has been going to pre-school at the high school. Big Meghan is a sophomore in that high school and occasionally sees her in the hallway. Catherine thinks she is so cool because she goes to high school. The other kids are a little jealous because most other kids have to go through the other grades before they go to high school.
Laura has been in an out of sickness for the past couple of weeks...or has she. She has complained of a sore throat and belly ache off an on for a couple of weeks but there was no redness and no temperature. These symptoms seemed to have gone away once I brought her to the doctors office after the last time and they took a culture of her throat again. She didnt really like that too much. Actually, it was more like a lobster getting boiled in a pot the way she was screaming in the doctors office. It was her birthday last Thursday and I was scheduled to go read a book from the Fancy Nancy series to her class. Then she got sick and I had to postpone the reading until today. The kids were cute and very attentive. Laura drew a Halloween picture for me, how cute of course. She was very excited for me to be there and she got to sit in a chair next to me while I read the book.
The kids are getting excited about halloween. Jimmy is going to be a policeman, Laura and Catherine will be witches and jack is going to be Buzz Lightyear. I think he really liked the ToyStory movie when we went to see it in 3D. He always yells out "to infinity and beyond' when we ask him about Buzz Lighyear.
We were surprised to see that Jimmy wanted to get a costume this year. The whole family went to the Halloween store to look for costumes. At one point Jim and I went to the changing rooms. Out of one of the dressing rooms came a young tart dressed, well, to say dressed would be overstating her wardrobe. She had chosen a slinky type of costume and came out to look at herself in the mirror. James was staring though I think his stare was more of a look at her costume...as opposed to......some other people who were around there. Keeping my dollar bills inside my pocket, we just bought the police outfit without trying it on.
I'm still up in the air as to what I am going to wear but there is always something.