The Last Two Days.....Tuesday and Wednesday....

Tuesday was Election Day across our country and Louis Dean and I showed up to do just that.

I read all 10 constitutional amendments and asked a dear friend for further clarifications before we went to the polls.

I just read the results of the election and am pleased that the ones we voted FOR passed.

To celebrate our Get Out and VOTE - we had lunch at Irving's newest restaurant and one of our favorites in Waco - The Catch! This is not the exact same set up as in Waco but we like it.

This location has a full bar and is laid out a bit differently but it is going to be a favorite of Irvingites, I am certain!

Louis Dean was all ready for some fried catfish!

Yummy! Yummy!

We had a list of errands on Tuesday.....Vote, lunch out, fill up the gas tank, mail a package at the post office.....and then I dropped Louis Dean off at home and I headed to Dallas to pick Kailey up after tutoring at school.

Isn't she such a big grown up girl now??

She and I enjoyed our special one on one time together.

We drove back to the Bell Home slowly admiring the fall colors.

We don't have much but this looks good to us!

Nothing to write home about if you live with real true fall colors.

This is what we have......

When we got back to the house - the other kids had already finished their homework so Kailey and I sequestered ourselves in one of the bedroom and she proceeded to read for 40 minutes! Then she did her paper work. Trystan slipped in at the end and sat on the other bed drawing and I got a pad and pencil and joined her.

It was a fun and productive evening.

Amber and Mike are getting new flooring in downstairs so we were all huddled upstairs until Amber called us down for a pot roast dinner. We stayed busy folding and putting away some laundry.

Laundry is a never ending chore when you have quadruplets.

Washing - 30 minutes

Drying - 60 minutes

Putting Away - 7-10 business days!

Baths followed dinner and I made up three out of four beds with flannel sheets.

I always put the top sheet print side down.....so when you fold it back to slip into bed.....the top and bottom sheet match. If you use blankets, comforters or bedspreads - the top sheet is never seen if it is print side up. any way the kids were all impressed and said they love the way their bed looked when I turned the covers down.

Each child has a layer of favorite blankets, covers and throws to go on TOP of the bedspread.

Family friend, Carla K,  made each one a very special quilt shortly after they were born and all FOUR of the children use them on their beds. 3 out of 4 had the denim quilts I made them on the top so  they could use them if it was really cold.

It was nearly 9:00 when I left for home and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of being with Amber and Mike and the grands.

I came in and visited with Louis Dean before changing out the bottom bunk in the guestroom to flannel sheets. The change towards winter has begun.

I'm slowly packing away all the fall textiles from table clothes to tea towels to rugs and covers.

I am determined to put all away in a decent and orderly manner this year which will make it easier to take it out next time.

Thankfully, Louis Dean and I both had a good night's sleep!

However, I was sitting up in bed sipping my coffee and doing my prayer time with my prayer journal on my lap when he came to the bedroom door with an impish smile on his face.

 He has been messing with the TV and remotes every morning for the last 5 days trying to do something to connect the TV with the sound bar. He keeps messing it up and then finally fixes it only to do a repeat the next day.

He came in and said, "Houston, we have a problem! I've messed the thing up so bad that we need to switch back to Frontier because I can't find the book to fix Direct TV but I did find the one for Frontier!"

NO, I am NOT switching cable companies just because he's messed up the sound bar and remotes. It's a good thing I have a sense of humor and not addicted to watching TV!

So he moved on to repairing an old chair that I’ve been trying to take to the curb for ages!
Gorilla glue and an extension cord to hold it in place while it dries! I think I’m living in a Nut House! And it’s a real good thing Louis Dean is cute and charming....,just saying.

With no TV, there’s no telling what he’s going to do next. I think I need to take him with me when I leave the house....

This is the chair..... I admit....he fixed it. 

But that glue looks awful dripping down even though it is hard as all get out.

Still - this chair is in the music room and we all know anything goes in there!

I only have one more thing to say about the TV situation.

The one and only channel we can get is Fox Business.

So he has been happy as a lark since that's what he watches anyway.

I said why couldn't it have been the Hallmark Channel???

Life is always an adventure with Louis Dean.

Last night I came home and said the night vision glasses are such a help but mine were so dirty it was safer to drive without them. So he jumped right in and said he would clean both my sunglasses and night glasses  - which he did. And he put them in a zip lock bag to keep them clean. I thanked him.....

but when I left this evening to go help my friend Brenda prepare for a garage sale happening this weekend.....I could NOT find my glasses. I knew it would be dark by the time I got home......so I called Louis Dean (he was at Home Depot buying the two things I sent him for yesterday and he had come home with two things but NOT the two on his list!) and asked him where my glasses were.

He couldn't remember where he put them!

I made it home safely.

Can you tell I am not in the best of moods??

So I am going to do art therapy until time for bed.

I do love Louis Dean and I am not mad at him.

It's just sometimes he gets on my last nerve - just as I get on his occasionally.

I am closing tonight's journal entry with a couple of quotes - since my emotions range form one extreme to another right now.....

And that's all I'm going to say about that......