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Baking for the Army man

Danny and I spent a lovely morning baking together and listening to the third and final story in our Peter and the Starcatchers series. The audio narration by Jim Dale is something I enjoy so much. We baked spice cookies, and from-scratch brownies with white chocolate and butterscotch chips. They are cooled, saran wrapped 3 times, put in a plastic bag and bubble wrapped! I hope they arrive edible!

spice cookies are Jake's favourites!

I had the opportunity to chat with Jake today via google. This was wonderful. Nothing major said, but I felt close to him being able to talk in that way. God Bless the computer!
Loaves and Fishes dinner tonight, we brought sloppy joes and our smiles, and served about 60 folks. Ron played his guitar and sang, which made it quite festive. I love serving with the family.
Charlotte flys home tomrw. I hope it all goes well. I am excited to see her, I missed her!

In the car, out of the car, in the car...you get the idea! Saturday11/19

I knew it from the time I got up=this whole day would be spent driving. And so it was..TaeKwando, home, get molly and shop-vac, drop at church for Jerry(busily manning the poinsettia sale at church for SO) back to TKD, back home, feed Danny lunch, go back to TKD for testing, which last 2 1/2 hours!! Danny gets his senior yellow=good, interminable length of testing =bad! Home with Danny, get Mol, drive to Gary;s house, pick him up, drive them to snowshoe. wait for them for 1 hour, bring them home, serve dinner, drive to Howell for communtiy theatre production of White Christmas. Sit and relax and enjoy the aesome show! Drive home! Goal tomrw---stay home ;<)

Friday means basketball means free mom time!

Well we had a busy but excellent day. Sewing lesson with Karol(2 this week because she is going away for Thanksgiving) which lasted 3 hours! Progress made on the PJ bottoms, and learning continues. Leah was dropped off at 10am, and we played, coloured, lunched, then headed to her house to catch the bus. No sooner had we hopped out of the car and moved to the end of the driveway than we saw the bus chugging down the street. We were high fiving each other on our perfect timing as the bus pulled to a stop. When the driver opened the door, she said "no power at the school, classes are cancelled"! Oh my! So back home we went to play some more. Shawne came to pick up Leah and stayed for a nice cup of tea and a great visit. When she was leaving Leah  decided that she might as well stay the whole day and go to BBall. So she did, which is awesome cause the kids love her. I made a Target run, but then just crashed. The week of solo Mom-ing is tiring me out :)

Colour me Proud!

Oh boy! Molly and Danny are both phenomenal! The fashion show was tonight and they both did so great. From modeling duties for Molly to hobnobbing and auction bidding to shoe tying for Danny. Barb Binkley did a wonderful job as always, and one thing she did this year was play Molly's commercial and feature her as a successful  ARC client. Afterwards she introduced Mol who took a waving stroll down the runway! Her modeling went well too. She was escorted by her high school pal Zack Nichols, who is a football player and was on the TV show RealWorld. He was always so kind to her at track practice, and he is still just as sweet. Danny enjoyed the auction and we got somrthing special for Jer for Christmas..sssshhhh!

Happiness is a bird eating seed from your hand!

after patient waiting, a little bird  visits Danny

and trys the seed!

in spite of the cold, Danny stood like a statue

Danny took this awesome photo of a hawk through the binoculars!

Speaking of Birds....

shout out to the Blue Hen, though I haven't seen one at our feeder. :)

Tuesday 11/16/11 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

No, that doesn't refer to my kids...it is the book club book for tonight's meeting! We had a great discussion about this tale, was the boy autistic? did the door knob stand for the house in Dresden? were the something and nothing spaces an analogy for marriage? We really had a back and forth interesting chat. Then Renee brought out the fancy cupcakes from the new place in town, Just Baked. Flavours like strawberry cheesecake, bumpy cake, and samoa girl scout cookie had the club oohing and aahing! Then she left the extras! OH NO! Next months book is The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman. Have you read it??