Day 62

I was thinking this was going to be a lazy Saturday all day long.......... I got a call on Thursday night from the director of the Wednesday night children's musical. We needed to read through the whole script and time it to make sure it would fit in the time frame for worship service on Sunday, the 15th. Ms. Charlotte wanted to know when could I make it to a meeting. Surprisingly, I had NOTHING on my calendar for Saturday - all day long - which is very unusual. God must have been arranging my calendar for me. So we decided to meet at 1:00 at Ms. Michelle's house.
Last night, Jaide and Jared spent the night at my house. We watched movies and Bullwinkle shows until about 9:45. Then we played a bean bag game until 10:10 and then I read a couple of books with them. I finally said good night and kissed each on the top of the head at 10:30. I had felt really tired earlier - like around 8:30 - but at 10:30 I got my second wind so I laid in bed and started reading a book. It's Ashley Judd's new autobiography. I was looking for something that I could classify as recreational, or lighter reading. With all my studies and classes, I read enough heavy literature already. 
I was awake by 7:00 this morning and we settled in the living room for a morning of pure laziness. We feasted on toaster strudels, pop tarts, and Captain Crunch Peanut Butter cereal. We watched 3 whole movies this morning - Hoodwinked, Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and A Bear Called Winnie. 

Ms. Michelle and Poppy

I met with Charlotte at Ms. Michelle's house. We started reading through the whole script and it ran almost 85 minutes which included all the songs too. Way too long. Charlotte had been told not to go over one hour. So we went through every single page and cut lines here and there. What we thought was to be a one hour job turned into a whole afternoon marathon. We edited everything and read through it again to check times. We did manage to cut a little over 20 minutes off the original script and it was getting to be 6:00. Good thing I actually ate lunch before I went there. I got to meet and play with Poppy which Ms. Michelle adopted last fall. He is a little sensitive because he was apparently mistreated before she got him but she is a good, patient caregiver and I know he'll be fine. Plus Ms. Michelle has three sons who love this dog like crazy! 
I still had a few other stops to make before I could go back home. I needed to pick up a snack for my Sunday School class tomorrow morning. I got some sort of granola bars because my time had been used up for other things today (no time to really prepare anything). Then I stopped at Fazoli's to pick up a dinner for me. We only have one Fazolis in Springfield, and it's one of my favorite restaurants. I really can't fix myself spaghetti for one and frozen tv dinners just don't cut it. Blech!! Good thing that Ms. Michelle lives just 2 blocks from Fazolis! What a wonderful coincidence!!
So I arrived home sometime before 7:00 and ate my dinner (half a dinner - the rest is for another meal) and listened to thunderstorms breaking over the house. I'm so glad they didn't happen while I was driving home. My dogs were very happy to see me and screamed for me to fix them their dinner too. 
Wade has reached a milestone - sort of. He has been in country over 44 or 45 days now and that qualifies him for some extra benefits. He had been talking with someone that told him there were some days last summer that got up to almost 150 degrees!!  Can you imagine?? We decided that I need to send him some thermometers in my next care package. It's hard to think about it even being hot at all because it's been so cool and rainy here. 
Tiffany was taking care of Sam at the end of this week as he had a stomach flu and fever. I wrote and asked if he was better and she said that he was but he was so nice and shared his germs with Tiffany and now she wasn't feeling well. I don't think that qualifies as a good Mother's Day present!! Bad, Sam!! 

Speaking of Mother's Day - here are my two little, sweet babies. Thanks for making me a mom. I love you both!!