• Still recovering from the flu, but we are doing great!
• S and I haven’t left the house since Friday night.
• I made Pioneer Woman’s Carrot and Squash Curry Soup tonight.
• Success!
• The funny part was that I had just been talking about a similar recipe with my Aunt Macie the day before…then Pioneer Woman was gracious enough to read our minds and post her recipe for it.
• So nice of her to do that.  *cheesy grin*
• I rounded out the meal with homemade ranch dressing on salad and homemade croutons.
• The kids love helping make the croutons – tearing the bread apart, tossing them in the olive oil…
• …then eating them all once they are done.
• I finally made a successful batch of mayonnaise!  Yea!  I love the taste of it, too.  I used this recipe.
• I am keeping G home from school this week just in case.  I would hate to spread it to his classmates and their families.
• Oh, yes, he misses it.  Who am I kidding??  *I* miss it!  LOL
• So we are working on the letter J at home this week.  It’s amazing how much free preschool stuff there is online for the letter J!
• We’re going to do a lesson about the fall season this week, too.  Tomorrow:  Leaves.
• G is asking about FIVE times a day when he’s going to turn FIVE.  He’s so excited.
• S keeps asking for her birthday cake.
• It’s going to be a busy holiday/birthday season this year…
• …and for many years to come.
• Sweet blessings.

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• Chris really, really, really loved his Love Letter.
• *grin*
• Currently, there is a black snake on my deck.  I think it’s an Eastern Ribbon Snake after looking it up.
• Harmless.
• But, well, yeah…
• I like to watch So You Think You Can Dance with my friend Mindy and last night’s episode was great.  This dance just got both of us.  Amazing.  Even more amazing is knowing where the guy, Legacy, has come from and how far he has come to dance this style.  Wow.  It’s called “Fear.”   We watched it a couple of times before moving on.  You can watch it here at YouTube and their segment starts about two minutes in.
• SYTYCD is such a breath of fresh air from American Idol – the judges are nice, contestants are nice – everyone’s behavior is always professional and positive and encouraging.
• Did I mention the amazing talent?  Oh my word.
• I can only dream of dancing like that.
• We are looking forward to seeing family at the holidays.  We are both missing our families right now.  *sniff*
• S has learned how to burp on demand.
• She’s very proud of this skill.
• I’m excited, so very excited, to have my appliances back in place and running.
• Home, sweet, home.

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They are working today…should be done today.  Yea!!!

Here are some before/after pics as the work stands now…

Looking from breakfast area into living room, pink stuff is crack sealant.

Breakfast area

Tile finished (not yet mopped) in the living room - Chris and I did the baseboards. Woohoo!

Almost there…

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• Our tile floors are being installed…but it is a sloooooooooooooooooow process.
• We’ve been hampered by worker and installer illness.
• Yup, we threw in the towel and hired some folks to do it for us.
• Good thing, because it turns out our floors are pretty bad – as in about as un-level as you can get.  I’m glad we have professionals with experience now.
• But all this illness tests my patience…and my laundry…
• Just ready for it to be over.  We’re almost there.
• Pictures, pictures…I know!  They’re coming!
• G’s school is putting on a “circus” today – I can’t wait!!  He has been SO stinkin’ cute practicing his “strong man” routine.  I have the video camera and point-n-shoot camera ready to go.
• The tonight a Trike-a-Thon at church – adorable!  The preschoolers all bring their bikes and ride around the drop-off circle at church all to raise money for missions at church.
• Would you like to sponsor my children – pledge an amount for the number of laps they do?  Or just donate?  Leave a comment or send me a message!
• The Hunt-ster has just about had it with the flooring install.  He’s so done.  Poor dog  has been in our room for the most part for over a week, depending on the current state of the floor.
• The backyard is his best friend.  Ours, too, actually.  We’re spending a lot of time on the deck.
• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…

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• I’m the little engine that could…
• I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…
• Right now, we are stumped on the “leveling” part of the preparation for tiling over a concrete floor.
• I know…it doesn’t sound terribly hard until you start to do it and you have one portion where if you leveled it, the tile would end up way higher than the wood floor in the foyer that it would come up against.
• Yea, big problem.  Small problem.  High problem.  You get it.
• And which depths do you not worry about?  When you have a perfectionist husband, these are questions you must ask!  Is 1/32nd of an inch ignorable or do you level that, too?
• These are things we are asking and researching (read “googling”) this week.
• G is enjoying sharing his “war wound” with his class and his teachers.  His teacher told me later that after he shared his story, another kid said they had bumped their head, and pretty soon everyone in the class had bumped heads.
• Hahahaha!  I love four-year-olds.
• Even as I drove away today, I looked in the rear view mirror and he was showing the aide his boo-boo.
• The kid knows how to milk it, that is for sure!
• I have NO idea where he gets it from.  *sheepish grin*
• Have a great week!

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