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Random Rambles from a Typically Crazy Weekend

     So, weekends around here are usually insane. Especially as of late. Friday starts with doing school in the morning. It's a short day for us because I have to work in the late afternoon. I took the girls out to my parents after a hair raising school session with Courtney. All she had to do was write a short story, practice her handwriting, write her full name out a hand full of times and then write our phone number down 8 times for memorization purposes. It ended up being a tear filled 8 times, and anger just glowed from her face because "Why do I need to know your phone number? I'm always with you!". So, anyways, I took them out to my parents, dropped a DVD of edited pictures off to a client, and then went to work. After work, and a quick trip to Walmart for Small Group snack supplies, I went to my co-worker's house for a bonfire. It was fun, we took goofy pictures, talked and ate s'mores. Well, by the time I got home and in bed it was 2am. Then I had to get up for a 5 hour shift on Saturday. THEN after work, I picked up the girls, we went to small group, came home, and were all in bed by 9:30. CRAZY!! I am never in bed that early. I then dreamed there was a raccoon in my apartment wearing clothes and Jenna's saddle shoes. Crazy stuff. *deep breath*
     After enjoying lunch after church with our Associate Pastor and his family at Wendy's, going to spend some time at the Farm Festival, and running to Walmart (again) for milk, we are now home. YAY!!! My trash is smelling the kitchen up from whatever shouldn't have been left in over the weekend, and the girls decided on beef ramen noodles with egg dropped in (like my aunt always made for us) for dinner. I'm getting ready for a several hour editing session while eating leftover homemade stir fry and watching season 3 of Grey's Anatomy. Love that show!!
     Tomorrow is a day we've been looking forward to for a week now. Jenna has a dentist appt in Polaris, so we're going to make a shopping day out of it. We're even going to the Olive Garden for lunch. I'm going to (possibly) invest in my first EVER pair of skinny jeans. Yes, I am that behind. I'm also so short that I'm not sure how great I'll look in them. But, I have decided to conform. I mean, I'm a photographer, so I should be trendy. At least I'm not super frumpy like some "fauxtographers" I have seen. Hahaha!! My photography stuff has taken off this fall, by the way. I have the next 6 Sundays booked, one Saturday, and another wedding! in December. Now to just put in enough editing hours to get them all done and to the clients in a reasonable time. . . while homeschooling, cleaning, cooking, working, "mom"ing, church, life. *sigh* So is my crazy life.

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