Monday was the usual grocery store and then exercise. After lunch I got a note from the Woman's club that the military base where they get all their food from, including the turkeys is now no longer going to be selling their food to the club. Ok bummer. We had all already ordered our turkeys! So I talked with my 2 friends who we are doing Thanksgiving with and we will try and see if we can find a butcher to order them through. But this normally is very expensive- I would say the turkey will probably end up costing around $100 or more! Sometimes certain grocery stores might have some the week of, but you don't know until then- ugh! Today after school Jac had cross country and was pretty cold, and Amber had a little boy over for a playdate. After he left we went back to school to pick up Jacob.
Tuesday Jason took Jac in early for band. After I dropped the other 2 off later I went back home and my friend picked me up for yoga. We have to park on this narrow street, and after yoga class we see that someone had hit her side mirror and left. Ugh so annoying here! We went to my house and ducked taped it back on- just the mirror part shattered and broke off, the main fixture was still there.
Then we went over to the Woman's club to go get our turkey money back since they canceled the turkey orders. We got some groceries that they had left. From here we drove out to the British Import store, they sell some American food items there. We are strolling by the freezer section and we see a 10 lb frozen turkey- yeah! We ask if they have any more and she goes in back and comes out with the last one they have! We have our 2 turkeys! They cost us about $55 each. I guess you can order them there too for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Of course neither of us have room right now to put the bird in our freezers, so we call our friend who is hosting this year, we are cooking the birds, and she is hosting. And she has a big deep freezer so we gave them to her to store until we need them. Perfect! Then we ran to the mall and got some sushi for lunch. As we were leaving I picked up Jason's dry cleaning. When she dropped me off at home, I forgot to get the dry cleaning out of her car. So later, after school activities I see her pull up- a dry cleaning delivery service- perfect!
After school Sean and Amber had friends over. Jacob's guitar got cancelled so it was fine. I made some pan burritos tonight and they tasted good.
Wednesday morning I went in to school to help the PTO prep the materials that they will use to make the 6th grade craft for their Christmas party. Then a quick trip to the store. One store here carries marshmallows. They come in a bag about 1/2 the size as the one at home, and I need them for 3 recipes so I had a cart with like 6 bags in it! Then back to school to get Amber and her friend, home for lunch and play, then back to school for ballet. Sean had soccer and it was a really sunny day, not too cold. So great for them. So much better then the pouring rain they had last week.
After Jac got out of school and Sean finished soccer we went to get their hair cuts done. After dinner I baked some cookies to take to Jacob's award ceremony tomorrow night.
Thursday after I dropped the kids off, I exercised and then got ready to go. I picked up my friend and her son in the school parking lot and then we drove out to Germany to the Villeroy and Boch outlet. I wanted to get some dishes and silverware to take back home. So they are cream with kind of a scalloped edge on them and then 2 square serving bowls. They also have a beautiful Christmas pattern that they have a store for too, so I got some Christmas things as I love Christmas dishes and such! And they have a Land's End outlet store too. So by the time we did those 3 stores 2 hours had gone by and we needed to head back to school as it was an hours drive back. It was of course pouring by the time we got back to school. Jacob had cross country in the rain, and Amber had rainbows. Sean got to tell me all about his day in the peace and quiet of just the 2 of us on the way home. Then later we headed back to school to pick up Amber. Jason met us in the school parking lot and took Sean and Amber home and I went into school with my food for Jacob's fall sports award night. It took about an hour and then the kids had appetizer snacks and sweets and drinks. So it was nice.
Tonight we finished getting him all packed and ready to leave tomorrow for Belgium for the finals in cross country. He was getting nervous before bed!
Friday, Jac had to be in early for band so Jason took him. And the other 2 didn't have school today for a teacher's institute day. So we were a bit slow moving this morning. Once ready we ran to the grocery store and then dropped off our food and went to school to see Jacob off. The school is collecting for the devastation after the big typhoon so we brought a bag of stuff in for that of things they were collecting.
Jacob was going to Belgium today for cross country. The bus was leaving at 12 so he was excited to leave school early. I am pulling in the school parking lot, which is way down the street, and Jacob is calling me asking me where I am. I tell him I am in the parking lot and will be right there. He is telling me he can't see me- too funny. So I take his book bag and give hugs and take some pictures of him and his best bud that is going too.
From here we went to the pharmacy, b/c that stupid infection I had in my toes last year is back in one toe- ugh! I called the dermatologist to see if she could just prescribe me the last medicine I was on and then if it gets worse I will come in. But she is booked until March- so lovely! She has a walk in clinic once a week for a few hours so I can go to that if needed. But she sent me the prescription so we went and filled that. Then over to my friend's house to for lunch. She lives really far out. It was about 30 min. to get to her house from here. About 1/2 highway and 1/2 country roads. One road is just between some one's cow fields. And there were 2 big, big white cows/bulls laying really close to the fence. There were no other cars around so we just stopped on the road and looked at them- they were huge! I should have taken a picture of them. Then one turns it's head to look at us and Sean is like, "Mom, I think they are going to get us" Ha, so we continued on. It was my friend's son's birthday. So we had lunch and cupcakes and another friend and kids were there too. We were going to go bowling, but it was Belgium and when it came time to go the kids were having fun and so we decided just to stay here and go bowling this weekend. These 2 are in the same class together.
She has 3 cats and my kids were loving them!
We left late afternoon and went to another town not too far from her and got Sean some new tennis shoes and then the grocery there as the store we went to earlier in the day didn't have a couple things I wanted. I hate when that happens.
Sean and Amber played games tonight and we rented a movie. Jacob didn't call us until a little before 10pm! They had gone to dinner at an Italian place and it had taken 2 hours and then he had just finished showering. He said the bus trip went well. The hotel is nice and they are all on 2 floors. His good friend and him are rooming together. They took a bus into the city center and the coaches told the kids to get in groups they had 2 hours to walk around and then they had to meet back at the cathedral in 2 hours and then they walked to dinner! I couldn't believe they let a bunch of 11 year olds, 6th graders, walk around by themselves, there were about 8 of the in Jacob's group! Jacob went shopping and bought things to bring home so that was nice of him. But what if one of them had gotten lost or who knows what- ugh! So he is having a great time and hopefully he goes to bed soon and has a good race tomorrow. His roommate is his good friend and Jacob was getting worried that he wasn't back in the room yet as curfew was 10pm. So at 11:15 I get another call from Jacob. His friend came back at 10pm to ask if he wanted to join him in another friend's room. Jacob said no, and the friend left, but now it was really late and he wasn't back yet and Jacob was getting worried. I think he was also disappointed that his friend wasn't with him in the room for a sleepover and he had been alone for awhile now. So that is too bad. I didn't hear from him again so I hope his friend came back shortly after.Sat. morning my friend dropped off her 4 kids so they could go to this town in France and pick up some antique pieces for the house at a store she had been in the other weekend. They are big pieces so they needed the whole van and would be better not to have the kids with them. So I had things to keep everyone busy. About an hour after they got here, I got a group one and they made no bake chocolate oatmeal cookies- yummy! Then for lunch everyone got to make their own pizzas, half of a pizza. So they enjoyed that and we ate. Then after lunch they did some turkey colorings and worksheets. Then group 2 made sugar cookies. I had to refrigerate the dough. So then it was movie time. We had the guest bedroom all set up for our movie night which we didn't end up having and we haven't been able to reschedule b/c someone has always had something going on. So the kids climbed on the bed and got comfy and they watched the Emperor's new groove. Here are some of them.
Funny movie. Then some crafts where you stick those sticky foam stickers on to a foam design. And I started bringing them in to roll out their cookie dough one at a time.
Then when their sheet of cookies were done and baked they could come in and frost them. They turned out pretty good. By this time it was around 6pm and my friend and her husband got back. They got their pieces and all was good. So we grilled out some burgers and had dinner together. Busy day! But I think everyone had a good time!
Jacob kept calling me from the bus. So finally they said they would be back at 8:30, so Jason went and picked him up. He had a really good time and his good friend got first place!!! He said they ran in a field and it was very muddy and wet.
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