Great few days here
Have a Nice Day!
FINALLY the sun has come out and it warmed up again.
We've had some interesting days here. All the friends are invited here..open door invitation...and they have been here for a couple of days (except at night).
Yesterday we got movies (8 mile, Sweet Home Alabama, and Crossroads) and watched movies, and ate food...lots and lots of food. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed being with the kids. I've got another one calling me "mom" now. LOL. (By the way 8 Mile is a very interesting movie. It explains so much of Eminem's lyrics.)
And then today, they washed the dishes for me (for a small fee, but I was GLAD to pay it with all those dishes!!!). I really have to invest in paper cups and plates, etc. LOL.
Anyway...I took them ALL to the skatepark. We squeezed 8 kids in the suburban and left. The kids were aged 7 to 16.
They didn't do any skating (too many older pros), but they sure had a great time. They were rolling down the grassy hill, racing, doing gymnastics, and went exploring in the woods. They were playing in a water pipe and the park ranger had to tell them to stop <smirk>.
On the way home they were cranking up the music and waving at people on the highway LOL.
Now they're outside hanging out, not sure what they're up to at the moment but I can still hear them.
Tomorrow I'm going to ask that they come over a little later in the day so that we can have family visit and not have a lot of ruckus goin' on.
I've told the kids over and over again that I want them to hang out here where its safe. They know I won't get in their hair. And I'm collaborating on how we can make this the kind of hang out they'd like to come to...instead of wandering around town bored.
Hopefully they'll give me more ideas after this weekend. Now, to find parts for a go-kart......
Kristen
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Today is even more important than tomorrow because "today" is a gift, and "tomorrow" might never come.
Today is where hope lives because today is when we can make things better than yesterday.
The only thing we can be sure of is today and life isn't worth living if it isn't lived in joy for as many moments of today as we can manage.
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We've had some interesting days here. All the friends are invited here..open door invitation...and they have been here for a couple of days (except at night).
Yesterday we got movies (8 mile, Sweet Home Alabama, and Crossroads) and watched movies, and ate food...lots and lots of food. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed being with the kids. I've got another one calling me "mom" now. LOL. (By the way 8 Mile is a very interesting movie. It explains so much of Eminem's lyrics.)
And then today, they washed the dishes for me (for a small fee, but I was GLAD to pay it with all those dishes!!!). I really have to invest in paper cups and plates, etc. LOL.
Anyway...I took them ALL to the skatepark. We squeezed 8 kids in the suburban and left. The kids were aged 7 to 16.
They didn't do any skating (too many older pros), but they sure had a great time. They were rolling down the grassy hill, racing, doing gymnastics, and went exploring in the woods. They were playing in a water pipe and the park ranger had to tell them to stop <smirk>.
On the way home they were cranking up the music and waving at people on the highway LOL.
Now they're outside hanging out, not sure what they're up to at the moment but I can still hear them.
Tomorrow I'm going to ask that they come over a little later in the day so that we can have family visit and not have a lot of ruckus goin' on.
I've told the kids over and over again that I want them to hang out here where its safe. They know I won't get in their hair. And I'm collaborating on how we can make this the kind of hang out they'd like to come to...instead of wandering around town bored.
Hopefully they'll give me more ideas after this weekend. Now, to find parts for a go-kart......
Kristen
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Today is even more important than tomorrow because "today" is a gift, and "tomorrow" might never come.
Today is where hope lives because today is when we can make things better than yesterday.
The only thing we can be sure of is today and life isn't worth living if it isn't lived in joy for as many moments of today as we can manage.
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