Some Days All You Can Do Is Shake Your Head

I let my children dress themselves. It takes a really big fashion disaster for me to step in. I just don't care that much.

So, this morning when Ruby came out with a skort, white tights, hiking-style sneakers and a white tee shirt with pink long johns underneath it all (to keep warm, she said), I said nothing.

Imagine my surprise, when I picked her up from the after school program, to find her running around in just the long johns. Just the long johns.

My daughter was essentially running around in her underwear. At school.

She said she got hot. I pointed her state of semi-dress to the teachers and they all thought she was wearing leggings and a matching shirt.

Sigh. What can you do? We all had a giggle.

Maybe I'll be a little more involved in the future. But probably not.

New Toys

We've been planning to upgrade our phones for a while and had been researching and deciding what to do, what phones to get, which company to go with, when John came home from a business trip with two iPhone 4S phones. What's more fun than a husband who brings presents home from a business trip? Probably a husband that doesn't travel. But I'll take the 4S as a consolation prize.

We've had lots of fun playing with Siri, the voice recognition software that does all sorts of stuff for you. And downloading apps. I'm writing this post using the Google Blogger app. Great fun.

Anyway. New phones. Lots of fun. Maybe even more blog posts in my future? We'll see.

Pretty, Pretty (pretty big) Princess

Please meet Clara Elinor, who has made September 11th a day of joy in our family. She's my new niece and joins us courtesy of my sister Heather and her husband Nathan.

Clara weighed in at 11 lb. 2 oz., and is 24 inches long. And bravo to Heather for waiting it out and letting Clara take her sweet, sweet time getting here. She was probably between 2-3 weeks over her due date.

As you can see, she's just as pretty as can be. We look forward to meeting her the next time we make it back east.

Welcome sweet little Clara!

Walking to Work

So, my personal big news is that I've finally been hired on as a sub in the county where I live, which means I can sub in the schools in my town, since our school district uses the county sub database. And I've already worked two days at the school just around the corner from my house. I walked to work. And home for lunch. It was awesome.

It was also lots of fun to have kids in my classes that I know. And it was fun to see some names on the rolls of families I know from the old MOMS club days. Some of those kids I haven't seen since they were babies. And then when it was time for everyone to be picked up, it was great to see lots of parents that I know. I know the secretary, I know some of the teachers, and I know a lot of the other subs, since they also sub at my kids' school.

Overall, a great experience. I just felt like I fit in better.

John's New Toy

As some of you may know, John's favorite drink is lime-flavored soda water. It's funny to hear him order "a Perrier with a twist of lime" in restaurants. So, for father's day, we got him a SodaStream. It's a home soda maker! We had a coupon and got a good deal on one and we've been trying it out. It came with a sample pack of soda syrups. Some are better than others. We tried the diet root beer and it was gross, but the orange soda was decent. Once they run out, we probably won't buy more syrups. It also came with some little bottles of just flavor, no sugar and whatnot, and he liked those better. We'll probably just end up getting a lime tree.

Grandpa Homer

My Grandpa, Homer Franklin Ogilvie, passed away on July 14. He was 92. I'm so glad that we went to Utah for Thanksgiving and got to see him. I have so many things I could say about him, but none of them seems enough.

I'll just say that I know he loved me.

Puerto Rico--Days 24 & 25: ¡Adiós Puerto Rico!

Today we were all really tired after our late non-water adventure last night, so we all slept in this morning. And then spent most of the day packing.

We went out for ice cream, that was our big adventure for the day.

We're going home tomorrow morning, so I won't be posting anything. It will be a very long day, from the time we leave the condo here until the time we get back to our house it will be about 15 1/2 hours travel time. I'm sure we'll all be exhausted.

It's been a great trip, none of us are ready to leave (maybe John is) and we're all hoping to come back as soon as possible.

¡Adiós Puerto Rico!

¡Mucha Gracia, Nos Divertíamos!