[martiehawk]

Hi again everyone! It's just been crazy busy here and not looking too much better for a few weeks. We are currently preparing for my parents to come sometime the middle of October.

This ended up being a very long post!

Our Callaway Family Reunion is in Atlanta this year. They always attend that and spend a few days with us on the way or after. This year since it is local to me they will be here the entire time and they get to stay longer than usual since daddy is retired from everything now. Fortunately they are great friends with my in-laws who have an extra bedroom so they stay there.

This week was SUPER busy. I had a TOPS meeting on Monday that was to be followed by someone meeting me to work out some issues with her school program on her laptop. She never showed. After waiting about 40 minutes I left. She called an hour later to say OOPS! and she thought she had her issues worked out but would I meet her a tad early on Wednesday. Sure.

Tuesday was a stay home day. I feel I have a few more of these this year than in the past which is great! The only thing I had going on was Mom's Night Out which was a lot of fun.

Wednesday we left at 9:00am to pick up some pictures at Walgreens for Savannah for our photo club. We were at the park by 9:30 to meet said person who didn't show on Monday. Well, she didn't arrive early on Wednesday either. ARGH! She never mentioned anything about whatever issues she was having and so I dropped the whole thing.

Photo club started at 10:00. I had about 15 kids ranging from 5 to 16 attend. They all brought steeple pictures to share. They did a great job on those! Then I sent them out in groups for a scavenger hunt. Each group had a list of items to find in the park to take pictures of. They did a good job and worked on that for about 40 minutes or so. They all said they had fun so I hope they did. I enjoyed seeing their pictures and talking with them.

We left the park and stopped at QT for a snack on the way to the Carlos Museum at Emory. If you have a chance before October 14th to go see the Cradle to Christianity exhibit, you should go. It was really good. However, because of the way they sent me I was a few minutes late. Then waited on the shuttle and had to go in the office to pay for our group. Their computer and then printer acted up a bit (of course, you're in a hurry. What else would a computer do? LOL) So that pushed up behind on our tour and we ended up having to rush a bit to make it over for the story teller on time. Jim Weiss is a great story teller and I learned more about this time in history than I remember hearing before. I'm not sure how long he will be there but he was great!

Headed back to Stockbridge and met my in-laws for lunch at 3:30, stopped at shoe repair to leave shoes and then dropped off the daughter of a friend at her church at 5:00 and headed home. Of course, left at 6:15 to take Savannah to her youth meeting. LOL!

Thursday was a field trip to The Rock Ranch in The Rock, Georgia. It's past Barnesville a little ways. We had a lot of fun there too. Maybe later I can post a picture or two. It poured rain on us during the last hour of our visit but the kids got drenched and thoroughly enjoyed it!

So, other than choir, yesterday was a slow day and today even more so. I need to clean my laundry room really well so we can pull the dryer out and see if it can be fixed. It quit on us Tuesday night. Heating element gets hot, I can turn the drum by hand but it won't run. Go figure! The girls said all our appliances are starting to fall apart. Well, they aren't made to last very long and all of our things are almost 10 years old in this house now.

Better run. I need to go pick up those shoes if they shop is open today. It's SUPPOSED to be but it didn't look open this morning when I whizzed by there forgetting I needed to stop. LOL!