{"id":2756,"date":"2010-10-19T22:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2010-10-23T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T18:16:10","slug":"how-ya-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"How ya been?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So where in the world have we been? I know I’ve been kinda phoning the Crafty Tuesdays and Team Up Thursdays in, and it isn’t as if we don’t have all kinds of stuff going on…but I thought September was a crazy busy month? I think October is at least three times as busy.<\/p>\n

I just dumped my camera and uploaded a mere fraction of the photos from October and realized I gotta lot of explaining to do.<\/p>\n

We’ve been soaking up our autumn and getting into the groove of school, ballet, and lots and lots of soccer. Em is progressing nicely on the soccer field – at the very least she is trying very, very hard.<\/p>\n

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Mama has been playing on Sundays too, and I don’t know if I’ve been progressing or not but I got cranked in the head with a soccer ball last Sunday and dropped like a sack of potatoes, saw a few stars, and still have a tender spot on the side of my head. Not my finest moment, but I’ll be there again Sunday…clearly that ball knocked all remaining common sense out of me.<\/p>\n

Let’s see, what else? The girls and I had a visitor last week. My cousin, whom I haven’t seen in probably 10 years came out to SoCal to visit us. We had a great time. I found that we don’t live that far from the Reagan Presidential Library, so we took a little trip up there for the day.<\/p>\n

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Yes. It is very gorgeous up there. And we saw a whole bunch of very cool stuff and got to go into the decommissioned Air Force One…<\/p>\n

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…and saw a replica White House (that is to scale and even the carpets and chandeliers are perfect replicas!).<\/p>\n

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It was fascinating. I’m already planning a trip back there with the girls and maybe one with my Brownie troop if they are interested.<\/p>\n

We also took some time to run around and stretch our legs…<\/p>\n

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Addie totally “tricked” Andy into tagging him by telling him, “I just want to give you a hug,” which of course stopped him in his tracks, and as he stooped down to get his hug, she tagged him and said “I tricked you! You’re it.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, she is a stinker.<\/p>\n

We learned about Andy’s zoo (he works for the St. Louis Zoo).<\/p>\n

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We found a British Tearoom that serves Cornish pasties and celebrated Andy’s birthday with an afternoon tea.<\/p>\n

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(The pasties were good…but not “Aunty” good. Still, if some Yoopers come visit, we’ll gladly trek back out that way!)<\/p>\n

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It was a really fun week, and even though our time with Andy was short, the end of the week also brought home our Daddy. I can’t even tell you how happy we ALL were to see him.<\/p>\n

So this week we are enjoying our Daddy time and I was feeling all relaxed and calm. Until today. Today I realized that even though October does indeed have five weekends, I do not have another week before Halloween, like I keep thinking I do.<\/p>\n

Next week! Next week is Halloween! Along with Halloween parties, costumes (that I need to make!!) and trick-o-treating, we have more visitors coming next week, and a Carnival for the PTA in the middle of all of this. I think I need to stop feeling all calm and go get to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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