First - work is work. No joke. Working hard and fast and furious and hunched over that computer for way too many hours! I did get in three early morning walks with Martha and Cooper. Even though we have to walk out the door at 5:00 a.m. - it makes the rest of the day so great!
Sunday morning I went to brunch with my friend Missy at this cool place called Piknik. Everything on the menu is 100% gluten free, corn, soy and peanut free. And they have butter coffee and it is served in a giant white coffee cup. Heaven. I had this amazing hash with sweet potato, spinach, brussel sprouts, currants, onion, sage, apple, pecans and a poached egg. Missy had pancakes. So good!
I took the leftover hash home and poached my first very egg the next morning! Look at what I did! Poaching?!?! Who knew how fun it would be to swirl water and drop and egg in! It was just as good on day two.
I did a little Halloween decorating on Sunday and it just feels festive around here. See that jack o'lantern with a light shining brightly? It doesn't shine brightly any more because my favorite dog drug it off the table and now it doesn't work. The Worst Dog in the World retains his title.
Sunday afternoon, we had a little planning pow-wow to get organized for a rehearsal dinner coming up for Martha's son in November. It was so fun! We ordered everything we needed on-line and it was on my front porch by Tuesday afternoon!
I snuck out on Tuesday night to go see "A Star is Born" with some of my girlfriends. I left the house without my phone, went to the wrong movie theater, and still recovered in time to find the right movie theater and see a terrific movie. It was really, really good!
Wednesday evening we had a Mom's meeting for our Young Men's Service League organization. As the VP for Philanthropy, I had to present and fill in our members on what we have accomplished so far and what we have coming up. Although I still jot down some notes, it is getting much easier to speak in front of a crowd. The wine helped.
Friday morning, Harry had a phone interview with the baseball team he worked for last summer in Wisconsin. The interview went great and now he waits to see if he gets it and also if he really wants it. It isn't quite in the line of work he really wants to pursue so we will just have to see how it shakes out.
Friday night, we had a fantastic Halloween get together with our Love Box family. In addition to their six kids, they took in two little brothers on Friday. The boys were five and two. My beautiful tribe sprung into action to make sure the little boys had costumes and goodies like the other kids. It was a heart wrenching night. The boys had a blast, but to know that they have just walked into a new family and probably don't understand what is happening or who all these people are or where their family is...it was a lot. They could not be luckier to have landed in this family. The girls were so loving towards them. I just wanted to scoop them up, rock them to sleep and never, ever put them down. We had pizza, made Halloween treat bags for the kids to share with their classmates and then we gave them all their costumes and we had a costume parade. It was so sweet. Filled my heart up to the very brim.
Bob had his cataract surgery on Thursday and it went great! He can already see so much better! Still have to get the other eye done next Thursday but feeling good about some seriously improved eyesight.
So happy it is Saturday! I am off to refurbish some outdoor furniture at The Settlement Home with our YMSL group! Hoping the rain holds off! Then going to watch some college football with my boys!
Have a great weekend!
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