March 8, 2008

This morning was a normal Saturday for us. Michael had to work. He gave me a wonderful goodbye kiss this morning though. I was able to go back to sleep for about 20 minutes, but was up by 6:20 this morning.

I took care of the bills and checkbook. I'm so proud of myself because for the past three weeks, I've kept it up to date on a weekly basis. It's so much easier when I update everything weekly. Especially lately because we've not been spending much money during the week at all.

Then, the kids and I went to the bank and deposited all the cookie money. When I was finished there, we went to the post office. Michaela dropped a couple envelopes in the slots for me and I bought a bunch of stamps. I'm trying to stock up before the price of postage goes up. Next, we headed for Walmart. It was a mad house and most people there were wandering around with their heads stuck up their butts. I was so glad to get out of there and come home.

My brother and SIL were supposed to come over this afternoon to get their cookies, but by 4:20 I'd not heard from them and Stacey had called. She invited us over to play games with them and the Gravemans. And, Lauren invited Michaela to spend the night. So, I called my SIL again and they were getting ready to go to a benefit so we decided they would come over tomorrow.

We had a lot of fun tonight. It was great to get to play with other adults. Stacey, Steve, Marlene and Keith all have such great senses of humor. We laughed so much and just really enjoyed each other's company. We played a card game called Hand and Foot. I've not played that is a very long time. I'd forgotten most of the rules. But, I also think that they play with rules that are different from what I'd learned growing up.

I think sometime soon we're going to have to invite them over here and do games over here. Maybe Uno Attack or Mexican Train, or something like that. It feels good to have couple friends that seem to really enjoy being around us.