Tuesday 1/14 a shift at work!!

I had a blast at BDL today. Finally nice to get in a shift, 10-3, and busy,busy,busy. Lots of program sign up, book finding, cleaning up of books and toys and great interaction with patrons. But my favourite bit was a first grade tour group. I led both the tours, two groups, and those kids are so funny and curious that it is a joy. 

We then had to pick up Danny from chess club, make a Costco run, pick up the traverse at bobs, now with a fresh door lock and shining headlights and gas it up. Pack up food and books for NJ and get some sleep.

Isn't this blog exciting?! Nothing like this cutting edge action....!

Starting off right

Jerry went to work the kids were in school and I had no plunge to plan! Pure bliss! Harry and I took a long walk after I went to mass and Marshall's. The walk is to counter act the fact that I was at Marshall's to buy larger pants! I took the kids and Harry to snowshoe, weather nice and practice great. Jerry and I had a business meeting at Downtown Main Martini Bar and that was really fun. Jer is always on my case for not going out with him, so here we went! We discussed the upcoming year, trips planned, future plans, job issues and polar plunge rehash. It was good to spend some time together.

A good Monday, though as usual, my big plans for cleaning never materialize the way I think they will!

Sunday 1/12 the Big Ahhhh!

AAAHHHHH! Plunge is done! We slept in and did blueberry pancakes and newspaper reading, and playing with Cassie of course. Football and more playing in the afternoon, and then we all piled in the car to drive Cassie to Dearborn. The kids voted to go to IKEA after that for meatballs. We all enjoyed talking about our great Netherlands adventure and how much we miss it. We walked around the store after dinner, and imagined living in 350 square feet or outfitting our small business office.

Then it was back home to get ready for our school week.

The kids checked their firstgiving page and have garnered even more donations( page stays open for two weeks post event) and the team is over $1000.00 now!

Polar plunge 2014--Saturday 1/11/14

Here is my crew! They all helped me so much, lifting and toting boxes of supplies, fielding phone calls, leaving me alone to make and receive calls and email, being wonderful SO ambassadors at the plunge, and NOT LEAST, plunging into the icy waters today with smiles on their faces. 

We had a great day and raised over $16,000 so far for our athletes. The music and food were great, the silent auction seemed to go great, and it just all went smoothly. I felt happy and relieved.

We grabbed some pizzas and chilled( or warmed up!) and just all said "yay, the plunge is done!!"

Snow much fun! Friday 1/10

Cassie and I enjoyed a nice day on Friday, inside and outside and all around the town. We started off with story time at the library,which Cassie loved. She danced and sang and ran around the big room and I had as much fun as she did. Next Friday I will lead this class, sadly without Cassie! Next we headed to meijer to buy a new car seat ( jake drove off with my old one) eat goldfish in the cart and ride on sandy the pony. Lunch,play time with dzadza and then playtime in the snow when envy one came home from school.

Danny and jake headed to Alex's to play their game so I hung out at home with Cassie and did a bath and loads of stories while Jerry took the girls to the brighton girls basketball game. They enjoyed cheering and visiting and the girls won!

I am leaving out the fact that my day was filled with phone calls and emails related to the plunge...everything from "sorry I can't make it tomorrow" a judge and a staffer from SOMI, to "can you tell me the address of the high school?" This in an email....uh, can you google it?!

I can't wait til tomorrow night!

Plunge countdown,T-3 days

And we're off!  I knew how much I had to do today so the best start to that was mass. Father James challenged us to be both believers in Christ and compassionate helpers of the poor, not one or the other. If we say we love Jesus and don't love our fellow man, the bible says we are liars. Wow! That is a lot to think about and work on acting on.

Visited BHS to confirm ground/gym plans for Saturday, Gordon foods for candy bars for my candy selling scheme, target and the dollar store for other necessities. Then home to start prepping  the prize bags, silent auction pages, tshirts,etc. Mary Jane and Shawne both came to help, which made it fun! 

Cassie and jake were expected at 6:30 and arrived at7:45, with no call or text. He said he was stressed by the meet up with Cammy. It is a tough situation to be in. If the two parents are supposed to talk and interact, and one of hune shows up with their mom, other child and lawyer, well that can be a bit counterproductive.

By the time I got little miss settled it was 10pm- and I'm heading to bed! posting the first of many pictures for this weekend!

Thanksaunt Susan and cousins!

Another housebound day

Well, I baked a beautiful apple coffee cake, and wished we were having company it was so pretty! Alas the neighborhood is still unplowed, so we ate it ourselves! Yum!

The plow tried to go through at 2:30  and had to retreat and call for backup. A bulldozer needed to come though and get up the heavy ice and snow. And then the old bottom of the driveway shoveling needed to be done...1 1/2 hours later Harry,Molly and I finally finished up and I was free! Rolled out the caddy and gassed up, got hummus and bananas, and ran a plunge errand. The I headed home as darkness fell and the temps dropped again. It is minus 8 right now! But school is on for tomorrow and I will need to turn on the burner and get this plunge rolling full speed towards Saturday!

I will share a few shots of Harry, this guy LOVES the snow. He climbed a huge snow pile and hung out watching me shovel!