Friday was such a good day.

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Not the best quality pic ever, and not even "showing off her skills" to the fullest...but I love it.

I meant to update about Friday sooner, but I had to read HP7, after all, and couldn't be seeing any spoilers before I did. It's been a very Harry weekend.

That book was CRAZY. FREAKING CRAZY. From about page 50 on it was just impossible to put down. I obviously had to put it down plenty during waking hours so I read it by staying up most of the night two nights in a row. Now I'm dying for Laura and Grant to finish it so I can talk about it with them. I think they're both around page 350. The first thing I did after I read the end was go to the journals of azraelgeffen, julierocket and mommydama to see what they had thought, as I had...uh...a feeling they would probably have finished it already, as well ;) I don't see how they can make that movie without it being rated R, either.

We had a lot of fun at the local bookstore's midnight party. It's a small place, owned by this great woman who is a former LLL leader, homeschooled her 4 grown kids, and is Christian. She's really direct and honest and just great. She also looked an awful lot like McGonagall last Friday night. Aaron won their costume contest :) It was voting by applause, with a decent size crowd (50 people?). If I'm honest I totally voted for my men without regard to the woman who looked just. like. Trelawny. Aaron got a time turner that is so great I'm nearly jealous, and then we won another one that Ananda got, in their raffle.

Before we left, Grant got ready to go and appeared looking like this:


I was like...What the hell are you wearing? And he answered, in a confused British accent, "What, isn't this how Muggles dress?" Bloody brilliant, I say :) He won third place and got Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. I think there were...8 other people in the contest besides them. 4 of whom were teenage girls in British schoolgirl outfits that had nothing to do with HP.


This is all out of order, isn't it? The kids had their last morning at VBS, loved it, and came home all excited about "the big night". They slept the whole way to and from picking up Grant from Verifone, and I was glad, because we were going to the HP thing so late and they're finally getting on a somewhat earlier schedule. And they did great at their VBS show :D There was a great slideshow from the week, and they got to pick up all the crafts they'd made.

We signed them up for Awana at the church for the coming year, on Wednesday evenings. There's another VBS at the Methodist church that I'm considering for them, and they're reeeeeeeeeeaally hoping works out, that starts on the 29th.


So I had a completely giddy Friday, and then a booked up weekend, and now I've had a completely horrible Monday. I don't even know why. I took a shower today, I did other productive things around the house and school things with the kids and blah blah blah. I mean I could list a bunch of reasons - money problems, lack of sleep, constantly feeling like I need to clean something else - but that stuff doesn't normally really bother me, and is usually outshined by good things (Grant's working some very lucrative jobs this week, Shaun took some really amazing stylized pics of the kids, Elise is doing new things everyday, Isaac and I just started letter of the week and the kid blows my mind with things I didn't know he knew). Probably I'm going to start my stupid period. And probably PMS is contagious, because Ananda, Aaron and Jake are all acting like they have it, too.

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[talonslady.livejournal.com]

That really is a great picture of Elise, she is so cute! Tell Annie and Aaron that I think they did a wonderful job and I wish I could have been there to see the whole thing, I am very proud of both of them! And Grant... well I think that was the perfect costume for him and congrats on winning third place. Love you all!!

[julierocket.livejournal.com]

ELISE! Oh my GOD Tina, she is YOU.

pirate!Grant is awesome. Hahahaha. Genius.

VBS looks like what Aidan's been doing this week... it's a little acting camp type thing and they do shows at the end of the day for parents/nannies to watch. It's ridiculously cute. I tear up. I'm such a sap.

I'm DYING for my brother Bob to finish Deathly Hallows. he's around page 350 as well. He's only 14 and it's taking him FOREVER to read it, so I'm trying to be patient ;D

Ick. I'm sorry you had a bad day today, and even more sorry that any unnecessary cattiness in my journal might have contributed. I'm going to try and post something friendly and cute and funny tomorrow to cheer people up. Maybe more pics of my little buddy :D We released butterflies today, so that might do it!

And ooh! I have a time turner! I'm wearing it right now! Heh.

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

I miss VBS's. I thought our church was going to do one this year, but it didn't pan out. *sigh* I couldn't wait for my kids to be old enought for VBS, I loved it so much as a kid, but the we had to go and become Orthodox and the Orthodox just rarely do VBS.

Elise is gorgeous!

PMS is definately cantagious. Everytime I get it, Brad does too. It is very annoying.

[emfish.livejournal.com]

AWANA is an awesome program. I was in it when I was a kid and then went on to be a leader for a while before I had my babies. I can't wait until they are old enough so they can go too!

[neurotic-orchid.livejournal.com]

I attended Awana at my friends' church a few times as a child, and I liked it a lot! Love the pics!

schleppermom

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I think that this is your most normal post since Elise was born. By normal, I mean, normal for you. Because family dynamics are, well, dynamic and not static, it's easy to say that things are never normal because there's constant change. But I remember the feeling your pre-Jake and pre-Elise posts had. When Elise was a newborn (and I mean newly born), your post didn't have that normal feeling. And this one does.

I compare myself to Molly Weasley, too. I like to think that she's busy inveting homemaking spells... she's obviously already figured out how to get the dishes to wash themselves.

[yolen.livejournal.com]

I totally love Grant's confused wizard as Muggle getup :).