Over the Weekend

Zach's favorite teacher had his class do an "Over the Weekend" entry every Monday. So, today I am going to see how it goes if I do an "Over the Weekend" post.

Over the weekend, we celebrated Maggie's birthday by having pancakes with M&M's for breakfast. She then opened her presents which consisted of a small sewing machine and a large fairy coloring book. She wanted to go to the fabric store and choose some fabric to make a purse with the new sewing machine. We didn't make it to the fabric store, but went to the dollar store instead and picked up a Halloween placemat to make into a purse. We tried out the machine and decided that we need Nana to help us with the tension and until then, we would just sew on the big machine. After a dinner of popcorn chicken and biscuits, Maggie and I went to the mall shopping. It was fun to listen to a 6 year old discover all of the weird things that a mall has to offer. (Boys wearing Frankenstein boots, all colors of hair, nearly nude posters, and the list could go on forever.) When we got to the carousel, she couldn't wait to get on the upper deck of the double-decker carousel. She chose to ride on the pink horse and when she started going up and down she turned to me and said, "I'm scared." I think it is the first time, other than the terrifying lightning storm at the swim meet, that I have seen her scared. I'm not sure she will choose the pink horse again. We made our way to the bookstore, the Tinkerbell store, to Gap for about 27 seconds until she said there wasn't anything for her in the store, and then in search of Webkinz. (She had $10 from Grandpa burning a hole her pocket and luckily there was a Hallmark store in the mall.) After an oreo blizzard, we finally made our way home.

Saturday, Casey woke me up asking if he could have two Webkinz for his birthday. (His birthday was September 20th) I am not a real fan of Webkinz, so now I am REALLY not a fan of Webkinz. Saturday is also football day. It was a great win for the boys and Sam got a touchdown and a runback that was 5 yards short of a touchdown. Zach didn't spy any dragonflies (a joke with one of his coaches) and got in on some great defense. So, it was definitely a highlight of the weekend for the boys.
On Sunday, we finally got to church after returning home 3 times for things that we forgot. When we got to church, there weren't many choices for a bench. We squished with the Kelm's and had to beg forgiveness as 14 people crammed onto one of the long benches. Thankfully, Rhonda Gardner sat by us and helped keep peace and quiet on the bench while Ron had his first run at conducting. THANK YOU RHONDA!! I got to teach in Primary which is always good with me and Casey gave a talk in Primary. He had practiced and practiced and he did a great job with a trip to Walgreens as a bribe. Then . . . we had an eternity after church. At some point I would like to know why Sunday is eternally long and at least twice as long as any other day. I do love Sunday, but I would love some ideas to keep the day holy that don't require me working harder than I do all the other days. Finally, Sunday came to a close only to start a new, exciting, week full of even more adventures full of nothing.