Tuesday in Quadville and Wednesday Things......

Tuesday afternoon we drove over to Dallas and switched vehicles so we could do the afternoon school pick up. We had just enough time to do a run in at the Goodwill on Midway Road where I found a perfect treasure for my sister, Nita's, birthday! I can't show a pic of it until I give it to her next Wednesday but it will be perfect for their road trip vacation to Las Vegas!

We arrived early and were waiting and watching the door for the kids to come out!

I loved seeing the expressions on their face when they first saw us.

The kids are two and two in the classrooms this year so they came out in two different groups.

But each one of them ran to their granddad FIRST!

I tease them but I don't really mind.

I love how they love him!

Kailey and Logan love to take my phone and snap pictures so I can be surprised when I get home and see what they did.

This is hanging on their front door.

I know Kailey took this one because she is always shadowing her granddad.

We brought the fixings for dinner last night.

It was Breakfast for dinner!

I told Logan about the secret ingredient that makes everything taste even better!

Bacon grease!!

We had fried potatoes, fried eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy!

Delicious!!

After dinner we sat around the table talking and laughing.

I showed the kids a photo from 6 years ago that day.

Cute little pumpkins from the blog post 6 years ago!!

Trystan said, "Look! We are in birth order!"

Then  I showed them all the videos from 4 years ago!

Naturally we were having a tea party! That's still one of their favorite things to do!

You can see the cute videos on the blog post from 4 years ago.......

We laughed and laughed hearing  their sweet little voices asking for 'MO-wer' tea!

They even had good manners saying please and thank you.

As good a time as we were having - it got even MO-wer funny when Kailey decided to entertain us!

We had the very best time over there and it tugged at my heart when we had to leave.

Logan asked me last week if I had brought enough clothes to stay one more day?

We spent last Friday night in Quadville but she wanted us to stay Saturday night, too!

Then last night Trystan looked up at me and said, "Will we ever see you again?"

It made me laugh!

I think we may have been out of town too much lately!

We came home with hearts as light as air and slept sound as babies.

Today has been a home day and I have been busy cleaning and doing.

I noticed the den smelled musty so I opened up the window and door - even though it was raining.....all day....again. Then I discovered the big rug under the coffee table was wet. I figured we had another crack in the foundation but that wasn't the case. Louis Dean had left the shop vac in the den since rain will continue to be in the forecast for most of the week. The cap to drain the vac had come out and all the water he had sucked up - the now more smelly stale water he had sucked up - drained out onto the rug. Taking the rug up and cleaning the carpet took up a few extra hours in my day.

By day's end, I had cleaned our bedroom and put fresh flannel sheets on!

I held off on the electric blanket since it's not THAT cold yet!

The art table has been set up since Monday but tonight I finally sat down and painted a bit.

I had been feeling a little agitated and concerned about the ceiling in the sewing room and the roof needing repairs and the wet carpet and on and on and on.

I felt better as soon as I picked up my paintbrush!

Louis Dean was pickin' and grinnin' as I painted and we ended our day in much better spirits!

I am thinking this one is done so I signed my name.

I'm never really pleased with the way it looks when I sign a painting.

I only allow myself one 're do' and that's it!

Leaving the art table up until next Wednesday and hoping I get a couple more Santas finished up!

Can you believe it's only 69 days until Christmas??