Catching Up - Again! Book Fair, Water, Valentines and the Crud ~ Wednesday

Catching Up - Again! Book Fair, Water, Valentines and the Crud ~ Wednesday - Saturday

Wednesday was busy at the book fair.
We spent a good bit of time gathering up the books on the teachers wish lists and checking them out.
It's a successful book fair when every teacher had all their lists fulfilled and every child in the school went home with at least one book. It's possible we may have missed one but we sincerely hope not.

Summer suprised us with a visit and she came bearing Valentines for the kids!

She has been under a lot of stress lately - more than usual.

Trying to get the referrals all to the right places is like pulling hens teeth!

She was in tears - she was THAT frustrated!

Then in ran Harrison who gave her the best hug.

She told him she really needed that and that she loved him.

He said, "I love YOU more!"

Now she had happy tears.

Aunt Summer is very special to them and they are special to her.

Sometimes you just need a hug.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were dark, cloudy rainy days.

72 hours without the sun.

By Tuesday night I knew the den was wet in the far corner by the organ.

I moved everything and threw down a bunch of towels and walked on them to absorb some of the water.

Wednesday morning I put them in the washing machine and sucked up some more water with my Rainbow vacuum cleaner. We have had so much water in the den before that this time was no big deal. Louis Dean is down to this one last are to install a drain and sump pump and then we should be in the clear.

Thursday was the last day of the book fair and the fair was actually only open until 11:30.

Then we worked like crazy tearing it all down and packing everything up.

We stopped at 1:30 to go to the class Valentines Day party.

The kids did their own Valentine boxes.

And they all wore the outfits Aunt Summer got for them!

I loved their boxes! See the heart pencil sharpener on the apple?

Trystan made those for her teachers.

And they each had different Valentines....

This is Logan's and she had an extra one for me!

Look who went to school with me on Thursday!

I told him he would have a good time and he did!

After the party we went back to our boxing up.

Many hands make light work.

Amber, Louis Dean, Carol the librarian and I....

After the school bell rung, the quads came in and helped pop the balloons!

They loved it and it took all of maybe 5 seconds!

And just like that - the book fair is over!

The school goes through 5th grade so we have three more years and I know each fair will be better than the one before!

By 5:00 Thursday evening I was in my fleece night gown and long socks with a glass of wine and my feet up. I know that looks like a big wine glass but it's actually a small one....filled nearly full so I didn't have to get up and pour another one! It's just 7 oz! I always use a small glass so I can refill it!

I have stayed in my night gowns ever since I got home on Thursday.

And I stayed in bed pretty much all day Friday and today (Saturday).

I guess my resistance was low and I am still recovering from the surgery so it should not have surprised me I got sick. I handled so much money at the cash registers and I must have caught a bug.

Someone told me that school children are little petri dishes!

Next year I will have a bottle of hand sanitizer right by the cash register!

Sherry was with us several nights this week while she was working in the office here in Irving.

She even made breakfast for us Friday morning before she left!

We will be going back to the ranch for a few days next week.

They have had a lot of rain just as the DFW area has.