Abby visited the dentist Monday where I was invited in to be informed that Abby should have her wisdom teeth pulled before she goes off to college. Abby has only 3 wisdom teeth, like I did (my Dad, on the other hand, had only 1 – the one I was missing!).
Tuesday night Abby and Dana baked 12 dozen sugar cookies for our continuing Girl Scout Gold Award project with the nursing home. Of course, I ordered the pre-cut cookies from Market Day so we literally only had to bake them. I HATE rolling out and cutting cookies! Abby invited Dana to come early so Abby could get to the High School basketball game.
Jeff studied hard the past few weeks and it paid off! He passed his "Green Building" test on Wednesday so now (as he explained to the girls) gets to add more letters after his name on his business card (LEED), link at left. It's attractive to many clients nowadays.
Bryn finally got her first road session with the driving school on Thursday. The instructor commented that Bryn was good at turns, but she needs to center herself better on the road. Bryn said her teacher was eating a smelly tuna sandwich during the lesson. :( I went to bed by 9 again. Caught the cold that's been going through our house.
Friday night all the girls had social plans: Paige went to the local Teen Center, Bryn and Abby went bowling with their respective groups of friends. So Jeff and I decided to go get our Christmas tree! The weather was a little chilly, but we kept hearing what was coming so we wanted to get it done! We came home and watched "Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream Home" - an old movie that I'd never get to watch with the kids home. I also received a call from John, my boss, that one of the two full-time guys just gave his notice. Bummer. When your company only consists of 4 people, losing one is a big deal. He'll be hard to replace - we really relied on his technical expertise.
Abby, Dana and I went off to host our 3rd installment of bringing Brownies to the nursing home Saturday morning. Again, it went great! Abby and Dana hosted 20 little Brownie girl scouts to decorate cookies and paint Christmas tree ornaments with residents. Abby and Dana were kept hopping distributing frosting, sprinkles then switching to paint and cleaning it all up! All within an hour and a half!
The nasty weather started at about noon, so Paige and I got out to the grocery store right away so we could get back! We also stopped at Blockbuster to get some Christmas movies to watch while we decorated the tree. The sleet began about 5pm. We snugged in and watched Deck the Halls, then The Polar Express while snacking on popcorn and peppermint hot chocolate.
Today I chaperoned a shopping trip for 4H as our club is sponsoring a family for Christmas. We had 4 groups of 4 kids each that we took to WalMart and let them spend $30 per group being assigned to boy clothing, boy toys, girl toys or girl clothing. We met back at someone's house and wrapped everything up for presentation next Sunday. Then I cooked chicken & dumplings - just seemed like the right weather for it. Jeff was a nice guy and picked the chicken from the bones while I got to go to the Y. He also put up our outdoor lights. :)
NEWSFLASH: Tomorrow is Alex's (Abby's boyfriend) birthday!!! It's being treated like a national holiday at our house! Update next week.
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