Here are a few things we’ve done this week:

Some people came over to practice for a musical number.  It is one of those times when I get to play with exceptional musicians.  Wow.  Kathryn especially enjoyed the music, and stood on a chair pretending to play the violin while we were playing.

While Kathryn was in the bath, Daniel sleeping, and Amelia playing with Kathryn but not in the bathtub, I quickly started making cookie dough.  Unfortunately I noticed some drops of water coming through the ceiling .  I arrived to a flooded bathroom.  Soaking Amelia outside the tub.  They had poured most of the water out of the tub and there is almost an inch of water on the floor.  I sopped as much as I could with towels, running up and down the stairs a few times to check the ceiling.  When I called Darryl he said to drill some holes where the water was coming through.  So I did.  I think everything will be okay.  Good thing we didn’t paint the ceiling yet.

We decorated cookies. 

On Thursday I was spontaneous!  Our phone wasn’t working, so we missed the call that Joy School was cancelled.  So we all went out the door and drove there only to find out no preschool but we would do it Friday instead.  I decided to take everyone to the Children’s Museum.  We went straight there (we had left the house just after 9am) and didn’t get home until 5pm.   It was way less crowded than when we’ve been there before, so the girls and Daniel just played and played without waiting in lines or taking turns.  Just upstairs this whole month are Christmas concerts by school choirs and bands, etc.  So we went up there for awhile and the girls loved it.    Since it was a spontaneous trip, I didn’t bring the camera.  But in the future that won’t be a problem.  Santa is getting me my own very small and portable camera!

Posted by Amanda on Saturday, December 12th, 2009 at 12:47 pm.