Pumpkin Patch

After an extremely busy week, followed by an equally crazy weekend, it's now Monday and I'm sitting at my computer for the first time in at least two days.

Al had a busy work week, especially since he was gone 3 days last week. He started with LWML on Monday, where the kids and I picked him up afterwards to run over to SB to test drive a car, which we didn't end up purchasing.

Tuesday was the Pastor's Winkel in Sidney, so he was gone all day, and I had to do the preschool running, which was difficult b/c we had to pick her up right about the time Lars' eats lunch. A minor blessing for us was that his OT was sick, so that was cancelled and gave me some leeway in the clock.

Wednesday is always busy for the pastor, and he had LYF after confirmation, so didn't get home until bedtime.

Thursday he was in Torrington for a funeral in the morning, so I had to do the preschool thing again, he then played catch-up in the afternoon at church, then worked through choir until a building committee meeting, in which he didn't get home until bedtime.

I love Friday, the day off, except for the past couple weeks, when he hasn't had time to take it. This week, he was in the office in the morning and came home for lunch. He left after lunch to head to Casper, where he had an LWML meeting that evening and all day Saturday. He was home by bedtime on Saturday night.

You wouldn't believe how many people think the pastor only works on Sunday morning and Wednesday afternoon.

The kids and I had less to keep on the calendar, but still ended up in SB Monday evening, Tuesday and Thursday were preschool runs and 'errands', Wednesday it was back to SB for yearly check ups at the doctor, then piano lessons in the afternoon. Thursday, another run to SB after preschool, and piano lessons in the afternoon.

The weekend was great. Friday night, we drove back to SB with the Douthit's to pick up a large power tool (which fit in the back of our large Ford) and eat out at Chilis'. The food was great, the service was great, and the kids were great. Not to mention the adult company I was desparate for! Saturday, we hung around and played outside, and watched the Red Wings that night.

Sunday was the big fun day, where we loaded back into the Ford and headed to Lodgepole to Hazel's Pumpkin Patch. It was a warm day and we had fun looking through the patch for the perfect pumpkins to carve. Between the 8 of us, we went through the haunted spider house, the corn maze, the hay bale maze, the wee Hazel's house, sat by the campfire and shopped in the purple witch store. After a quick stop at DQ (where they have non-dairy slushies for my son!), we drove through car lots and headed back to Bridgeport, where we picked up a pot of Chicken and Dumplings and headed to Douthit's for supper. While the guys planed boards with the new tools, the kids played downstairs and the ladies sat upstairs and watched the making of Mary Poppins.

All too soon, it was bedtime and back home. Now, it's Monday morning and I have a little boy in PJs who needs a diaper change and some breakfast.

Until next time...