Three-day weekend!

Happy Labor Day weekend!  I hope you have some nice plans for tomorrow.  Steve’s September movie watch is all three Chronicles of Narnia so that is we are going to do Monday.  Can’t wait.

We visited St. Louis on Friday and Saturday.  We had hoped to make the 7:30 temple session on Friday night but something caused slow-moving traffic outside of Warrenton (accident?  Labor Day? we never found out) and we didn’t arrive at the temple until 7:40 so we did sealings instead.  We spent the night and Saturday morning with Emily and Joe and kids.  After a gentle awakening and breakfast and some crafting on the kitchen table, Emily and Noah and Lucy took Steve and I to visit a lovely little gluten-free bakery down the road ( I bought a lemon cupcake and a sugar cookie and some gooey butter cookies – mmmm) and to shop at Five Below (a five-dollar and under store).  Then, Steve and I left to attend the 1:00 temple session and returned to Columbia to shop at Aldi, visit with Julina on the phone, eat, and collapse in front of a movie “The Slipper and the Rose”  (remember that film?) 

After week #2 with my Oakland 8^th grade orchestra, I can say that things are going a teeny bit better.  I just have to remember how TALKATIVE 8^th graders are AND that, just like cattle, they are always testing the fence and looking for a weakness to shanghai the lesson plan. 

RTO resumed fall rehearsals on Monday night.  Remember when I went on the radio to plug the group?  We actually got some recruits as a result – yay.  

Sadie got her teeth cleaned on Monday.  So that meant no food after midnight on Sunday and no food until Tuesday morning because of the anesthesia.  Poor Sadie.  Poor also because she had two little incisors removed.  Now, I need to be more diligent in daily brushing her teeth!  One really nice result is that her breath never smelled better.

This pretty much sums up our week.  We bought a new printer (finally) and we finally figured out how to register the newest Microsoft Office suite (I love the new WORD), and we bought three rabbit-ears television antennas so we can get rid of our cable subscription.  Still working on why I can’t read my e-mail on my smartphone.  Technology :/

 Emily found some Thomas the Train engines for sale on Craig's List in Columbia so I picked them up for her.  Quinn and Lucy are thrilled.

Noah and Lucy played with clay after breakfast.

Quinn sporting a hat and carrying around the toy school bus which he calls "Bye"