My glasses were ready early.

Allan had a fever Saturday night and Sunday morning, but was fine in time to be with the babysitter that night. Then 7am Monday morning Elaine was dripping with sweat and burning up. So she missed school yesterday. At work, I had a fever too, but some Tylenol and Vitamin C helped my fever break. Elaine's fever broke and then came back, so she was still feverish this morning. She's missing school again. I'm super sad about it, because 1) I hate when the kids are sick and I have to work instead of nurse them, and 2) We've been seeing Pamela and her kids every Wednesday and I wont let my sick kids get Pam's kids sick.

In other news: Rick hired two new girls at the store. *Happy dance* They are both 17. One of them has worked retail before, but the other has never worked anywhere before. They both were dancers. This might work out. One of my coworkers is moving away and we needed at least one more employee asap.

Repairs and other news

Our landlord came out twice this week and worked on some of the repairs our neighborhood is requiring. He's put extra rungs around our back deck, replaced spindles on the front porch and put an under-roof on the front porch. He still has to either paint or stain the front porch before the end of the month.

Replaced Spindles.

The back porch, before.

This is how the back porch looks now.

This is how our porch's roof has looked for years.

This shows the new wooden under-roof on the porch.

While I was taking pictures of the repairs, a squirrel jumped into the shot. :)

I saw the optometrist on the 20th. I can pick up my glasses next Friday. The doc said I could use some "sharpening". But my prescription is not as strong as it use to be.

Tonight is the Church's Appreciation night for the Children's Church Volunteers. Everyone is meeting up for a pizza buffet and free movie at Studio Movie and Grill in Lewisville. We are all seeing 'Duplicity'. The kids will be with babysitters, teen daughters of the lady who leads our bible study.

Random Recent pics.

Elaine finished Charlotte's Web. She says that it was kind of fiction because animals don't really talk. But it was kind of fact too, "because Spiders DO lay eggs."
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Jim took the kids to Lunar Golf some time last week with some Free passes Rick gave them. Jim has been answering some computer questions for Rick. The two guys seem to be getting along.

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Wednesday With Pam's Kids Again

THESE ARE A FEW OF (Their) FAVORITE THINGS

Elaine started showing me her favorite books. So I told her to gather them up and I'd take her picture with them. This began a game of taking pictures with all her favorite things.

Favorite Books: Scholastic First Dictionary ("It teaches me words. But they aren't all in there."-Elaine), Read with Me Bible, Paula Dean's My First Cookbook, If you Take a Mouse to School, Charlotte's Web, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Ribbon Rescue.


Favorite Dolls: Momma Dora (her largest Dora doll), a Build-a-Bear Bride, Annie (Raggedy Ann), Happy Hank (a dog doll that says "Love the Lord", "God Made you Special", etc), and the Cat in the Hat.

Favorite People

Jim got out the cooking stuff for the kids to pose with.

Allan's Favorite Things: Lightning McQueen blanket, ball and truck toy. Red & Blue Robots. Stuffed Lion. Leapfrog Leappad (alphabet toy). Green gates from Elaine's dollhouse that he says are robotic.

Today

She has 10 chapters to go (of 22).

It was 40-something degrees today and rained most of the day. The kids bundled up.

Pictures.

I cut Jimmy's hair yesterday, on my day off. This is the 'Before' picture and then here is the after. :)

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This has Allan's new haircut

Before I trimmed Allan's hair.

"I look like a cowboy" -Allan, wearing Elaine's boots and his pirate hat.

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I repainted the window at the store. One side has the empty tomb and Calvary. The other side has an Easter egg hunt.

Allan, Elaine and Noah (boss's grandson) hunting Easter eggs.

Man, they look alike!