These boxes are turning into these...
This particular tower will go up with the poles on the right going on top.
This is the corner of the yard the play structure is going in. Between the two towers there will be monkey bars/swings. The children are excited as am I.
Thank you to our generous benefactor.
Dawn talks about her bag on her blog. Hers is very neat while mine, as you will see, is not. At least this gives me the opportunity to clean it out.
My bag was made by a friend who used my husband's old BDU top and some Amy Butler material for the sides and insides.
Here is my mini purse that I use to house my wallet. When it's just me running out of the house, I can just grab the mini purse and go. Also, you'll see my calculator, a sudoku book (I love these puzzles, but I've only managed to finish about 3 of them so far), a ball of yarn for Pumpkin, a pencil bag full of multicolored pens, and a couple of notebooks.
Here are my clipboards (when little girls get tired of their toys in the therapy waiting room), another ball of yarn, our epi-pens, diapers and wipes, scissors, and mints from Olive Garden.
Toys, seeds, stations of the cross chaplet, appointment card, rosary, Divine Mercy card, and rubber bands for a geoboard.
Trash and receipts.
Crumbs!! How'd that get in there? I try not to carry food around in this bag. I have a separate snack bag that I carry to therapy and other places.
And, finally, my husband would not be happy that I didn't show the back side of the bag where I have patches from all the units he's been assigned to.
Oh, one more thing. The handles have this saying stitched on them: "I had cast my lot with a soldier and where he was, was home to me."--Martha Summerhayes, an Army wife from the late 1800s.
There's nothing like an ice storm and Daddy being home to make for a fun day. The older three went outside to play with the ice this morning. They played in the gutters "slushy stream", broke icicles off the pickup, ran around the backyard among other things. Then they came in looking quite adorable.
Red noses!
And, ears!
They brought this back for me. You can't really tell, but it was ice on a weed leaf. Honey called it a leaf icicle. You could see the imprint of the leaf in it, but I don't think you can in the picture.
Then the kids had hot chocolate although I was later told that Papa told them they could put ice in it. They loved that idea immensely. One of them said, "We put ice in it so that it wouldn't be hot."
We closed on our house--two weeks late, but worth it. Now for the hard part: moving in.
