Feeling like Cinderella....

This is a photo of me scrubbing the floors...which is what is on my agenda for today. I sweep and mop all the time, but every so often...it just needs a good scrubbing. Not fun - but kind of satisfying in a strange, repressed aggression sort of way!

I also still need to schedule all those doctor's appointments I have been putting off. I meant to do it yesterday, but instead cleaned my kid's rooms and shampooed the carpet (again). And baked cookies...did laundry...made dinner...yadda yadda yadda.

We had a wonderful, quiet weekend....Paige had her school dance on Friday and a Nutcracker rehearsal yesterday afternoon - but other than that, we really didn't do much of anything. A bit of cleaning, some yard work, some laundry...

Saturday night we had family movie night again - for some reason, that seems to have fallen by the wayside lately. We reinstated it with Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. It was a sweet movie, quite good - but none of us were expecting the sad ending and we all shed a few tears at the end!

So...that was our weekend....now it is Monday and the kids are off to school. Tim will be running around doing all the back to work stuff today (dry cleaners, etc.) and my plans for today are to sit down with the phone and the calendar and schedule doctor's appointments, dentist appointments, etc. which I have been putting off for a couple of weeks, then a bit of light cleaning, some laundry, a run to the grocery store....the usual.

Paige's first school dance....

Paige went to her first school dance last night. Aaawwww. My baby is growing up so fast. She met friends there, and they all decided to wear jeans - NOT to dress up.


Texting her friends to see where they are....

Happy Friday!

What's New around here:

* Paige got her headgear for the braces...we're very hopeful that she will be much more diligent about wearing it than her brother was!

* Clay HAS been going to weight training and conditioning for soccer. Amazingly enough, he is really enjoying it. (go figure!) He has met some really nice sophomores, and DID know one boy from St. Johns. Huh. Who would have thought that old Mom and Dad actually KNEW what they were talking about!! Hopefully, Clay hasn't shot himself in the foot for actually making the team, since he didn't show up for 3 weeks!

* The "mom-mobile" is home and the brakes are fixed! Hooray!

* Chloe is feeling much better, and I am very relieved! The antibiotics appear to be working. Unfortunately, since she is feeling so much better, it is much more of a battle to get them down the little stinker's throat!!

* I made another big batch of granola yesterday - my family loves that stuff!

* Paige is going to her first school dance tonight - the Homecoming Dance. She is NOT going with a boy - she is meeting friends there...

What autumn looks like in Orange Park....

The lemons are almost ready...
It is a beautiful day here....highs in the upper 70's, low humidity...
honeysuckle...