weekend recap and weekday mishap

This past weekend was so much fun! Chris and i drove down to my parent's house Friday night and then Saturday morning my mom and I went on this bus trip to Chicago. Wow, we had so much fun together but we were so ready to go home like two hours before we were supposed to meet back at the buses. We walked all over the place from about 9:30 to 7:00. I'd say the highlight of the day was when we took a carriage ride down by the lake. We were so tired and there was absolutely nowhere to sit down so we said, what the heck, let's take a carriage ride! As we were riding we saw a wedding party just coming out of the reception and the bride came out in her lovely dress and my mom said,"you've been married longer than her!" Yeah, i was like, how weird is that! It really just blows my mind sometimes to think that I'm really not a kid anymore, that there are people out there who are more newly married than I, and that the number of people who are younger than i am is growing day by day. Weird.

OK, on to the mishap portion of this blog entry. We have almost nothing to eat in the house so yesterday I decided I would go to the store on my way home from work. Well, i went all through the store with my mentle list, picked out what we needed, got in line, loaded the stuff on the belt, pulled out the little case I keep money and stuff in and discovered that i did not have my debit card. D'oh! I felt like the queen of the village idiots; I just couldn't believe I had done that!

Face Painting

A woman in our church is starting a center/support group for survivors of domestic violence and she put on a rally today. Well, this is like the first weekend in like two months that we have been home so when she and her husband asked if we could help out we were like "oddly enough, we have nothing planned. Sure, we'll help!" Chris, being the technical genius that he is, was working on set-up and all that other stuff involving wires and the like. I was outside with the kids doing face painting, which was loads of fun! I have done it a couple times before but this time was the most fun because absolutely no one asked for Piccachu or any other Pokemon character!

A Variety of Things

Today was a special day. Nothing amazing happened, it was just different than most days. I don't have to be at work until 10 but our apartment complex was having the parking lots re-striped and wanted everyone to move their cars by 8. Well, since I wasn't sure where to move my car to I decided to just get up and go. I had a couple gift cards for Starbucks so I went and got some chai and sat outside and read my Bible for a while( that turned out to be not such a good idea because it was really cold and windy today)! It was funny because I was trying to decide what to get and the ladies were joking with me like, hurry up, lady, we got people lined up out the door! Haha, i was the only person in line and like the third customer in the whole place! after that I went to Target, which is becoming my favorite store, and found the perfect blue hoodie to wear to work that I have been searching for for a while. Like I said, nothing amazing but I feel like I got more out of my day. sometimes I feel like I have no time to do anything but work and come home for a couple hours and go to sleep. I got a chance to do majore cleaning last weekend and was amazed at how behind I had gotten in that area. Haha, and then I saw my eyebrows...AHH! Guess I've gotten behind in that area, too. Well, to end a great day, my honey took me out for chinese food, which I have been craving for a long time, and we went grocery shopping, so now we have food. Sweet!

P.S. Happy B-day

I also want to say happy birthday to my aunt, Lea, even though she won't read this. she is the youngest of my grandparent's eleven children and she is 40 today-woohoo! She won't mind my saying her age, she proudly admits it. Beside, she totally doesn't look it and she has a two-year-old daughter so she doesn't act it, either.

Road Trip!

I am so excited! I took tomorrow( Friday) off, so i will be cleaning and packing, and then around noon my husband and I are leaving, with two other couples, on an exciting road trip to South Carolina. One of my husband's childhood friends lives up there so we are going to visit him and his wife. Also, there is this simulation machine of a video game my husband and his brother like to play so we're going to try that out. This started as an idea that my husband, his twin brother and a friend of their's thought would be fun and somehow the wives got involved so we will all have fun together! I love road trips so I'll be happy no matter what we do!

Cemetery Walk

This past weekend I went to Normal( my hometown) for the Evergreen Cemetery's " Voices of the Past" cemetery walk, wich is an annual mother-daughter event for my mom and I. I know it sounds a little creepy, but it's really fun and it's something I've been looking foreward to all year. I'm totally in to history and this is like history come alive. The "Voices of the Past" players and the McLean County Historical Society come together and do research on early members of the town who are buried in the cemetery and then the actors dress up in period atire, stand next to or near that person's grave, and gives a perfomans as if they were that person. This year was pretty cool because all the people being portray had something to do with the local college, Illinois State University, because this year is its 150th anniversary. The day wasn't entirely spent lurking in a graveyard, though, we also shopped 'till we dropped! We went to the library's book sale and I got four books for $1.70! I also got some cute Autumn and Holloween stuff for our apartment. It was so much fun to be home and hang out with my family and do special stuff with my mom. It was fun but hard becuase we hadn't seen my family in a while and the visit just wasn't long enough. Back in Indy and getting ready for work this morning I felt so homesick, more than I have for a long time, or maybe ever, since we got married. *sigh*

The light at the end of the tunnle

I am so very happy that the weekend is coming around again. Things have been a little crazy at work. First a little background: I work in what is known as the older infant room and, being that the ratio is four infants to one teacher and we have anywhere from five to eight babies in our room on any given day, there are two teachers in the room-me and another woman who was the head teacher. Well, for a while now my co-worker has been talking about either quiting or cutting down to three days a week. Haha, guess what. last Friday she left on her lunch break and never came back or even answered her phone. They called her emergency contact person and ,thankfully, she's ok, but she's not coming back. So, it's been just me in the room with four infants and all I can say is, I really hope I don't have quadruplets!