Memorial Day, Thrift Store, Soccer, HSM3

Memorial Day - tiny little parade, memory service in town, followed by another short service at the cemetary. Lots of people. Then free ice cream for the kids at the restaurant in town. Met a friend while walking to the cemetary and hung with her and her kids. They came back to our house for a little bit afterward then took David home with them.

I took Emily with me to pick up another friend to go to the half-off clothing sale at the thrift store. Dropped James at her house to play with her son while we were gone. I found a few shirts and 2 dresses for Suzy, several pairs of shorts and a shirt or two for Emily, as well as 2 pair of PJ's, and for myself a "new" pair of jeans to replace the too-big ones, a pair of capris and a pair of shorts and I think some shirts. I also got two pair of shoes, but I'm taking them back. No pix. All I bought were clothes and books. :-)

Monday night stayed up far far too late, even for me, making a quiz on facebook.

Tuesday I started working again. It's been a long time - more than 2 months - since I did any real work on my book. I did do the test scoring for a few weeks in there, but that was a bad experience. I'm sorting through my thoughts on that in relation to how people learn, and hope to post that at Cornerstone.

Did some editing and sent out two queries on Tuesday. Realized I need to revise my synopsis for Forget-Me-Not since it was written for the old version of the story, before it was expanded. Today I edited 20 pages of the story and then looked at the old synopsis, totally overwhelmed with the task. Sigh. I am kind of stalled on the queries until that's done, since many agents want a synopsis.

Tuesday afternoon I met with my leadership team for Seeds of Faith about co-op - posted on Cornerstone about that.

Tuesday night was James' last soccer game. There was one more game, but it didn't end up getting rescheduled, so his season is done now too. They got clobbered. I lost count of the other team's goals, but it was embarrassing. LOL There were at least 3 goals in just the first quarter, one of them in the first minute of play! Ack! They had one star player that was so far above anyone else on the field that it was practically impossible to stop him. James was goalkeeper during the 3rd quarter. I felt bad for him, because they did score on him (got it on video too! lol Not sharing it!) but he did stop one goal at least.

So, both the kids are done with soccer now! I'm just getting started though. I have a meeting tomorrow with the current registrar so she can tell me about how to go about taking over for her.

Right now, Bob and the 2 younger kids are going through the shoes, to see which are too small, disliked, or ruined. Then they are going through the sandals I have put aside. David is upstairs, probably playing Legos since he is grounded from both the PSP and the internet. Emily is "cleaning her room" which means she's sitting in the middle of a pigsty mess reading a book.

And me? I just keep listening to the HSM3 soundtrack over and over and over and over.... (Yes, I bought it. All three soundtracks actually. Used on amazon, so at least I didn't spend a lot of money.)

And now I need to go make dinner.