Chloe's birthday

Aah! It's mucher cooler today. Unfortunately it's supposed to go back to the 90's tomorrow and Wednesday. The kids first day of school is supposed to be the hottest day of the week. Doesn't that figure! I'm hoping we'll be able to throw together a last minute party for Chloe's birthday which was on Saturday the 29th this next weekend. We did that last year and it was a lot of fun. So, I do hope the weather is warm for Labor Day Weekend. At least on Saturday.

A Good Shopping Day (air conditioning)

Oh, man. And I thought it was hot yesterday! It's over 100 degrees today, which makes it about 110 or more in our unairconditioned trailer house. Yuck! We're dying. The cold shower I just took felt really good. We also went to the Salvation Army and got a few clothes for the kids to start the school year. Of course, I've found it impossible to keep the kids out of them. They're wearing them now. Or at least the girls are. Jeremiah coudn't care less. He found what he needed and was ready to come home five minutes after we got there. I'm going to go back on Monday, the last day of their big sale. All their clothes are 79 cents a piece until the end of the month, including adult clothes. They had a ton of women's jeans, so I might get something for myself, even. Then, we went to see Josh at the mall where he was getting his new iphone for work, so Angela could show off her new "Queen Amidala" shirt. She's from Star Wars for those of you that are not familiar. Then, after we looked around a bit and met Josh back at the AT&T store again he took us to the Super China Buffet. Not my favorite place, but I was hungry, so I wasn't complaining. Then, we came home to get Angela ready to go to her friend, Maggie's house. She's spending the night there tonight and we'll pick her up on our way out of town to go to our picnic's and camping tomorrow. I'll throw together some clothes for everyone tonight after Celebrate Recovery.

A Hot Day and A Busy Weekend Coming Up

Well, Jeremiah seems to be a little better today. Ugh! Is it ever hot, though, and the pool is not opened this week as I mentioned earlier. Most of their guards went back to school, so they don't have enough guards available at the same time to open the pool at all. It'll be open this weekend and doesn't it figure that the forecast is calling for rain. We'll be out of town anyway, so that's okay. In anticipation of possible rain (and just because he loves me so much) Josh arranged for us to have a cabin at the Boy Scout camp where we'll be staying. We're going to a family reunion for a little while and then to a staff picnic with the Boy Scouts and if we headed back after that we would get home early the next morning. So to avoid the late night we're just staying the night there at the campground.

Still Dealing With Some Sort of Sickness

Well, Jeremiah's stomach flu turned into a cold. He has a really bad soar throat and he sounds all stuffy. He wasn't complaining about the stuffiness though. He was complaining that it hurts to swallow. Please pray that the rest of us stay healthy. This is not how we needed to start the new school year. We need all the kids to be healthy next Wednesday for their first day of school. We have a busy weekend planned this weekend as well. A family reunion, a Boy Scout employee picnic and camping, so we don't have to come back super late that night.

Lots of Paperwork

Okay, getting the kids ready to go back to school is definitely going to be a challenge. Especially all this paperwork!

A Sick Child

Well, Jeremiah has the stomach flu or something, so I'm staying home from church with him while Josh takes the rest of them to church. Or at least Angela. Chloe's not awake yet, so she might be staying home with me as well. I've got to fill out all their forms for school and get them to the school this week. Not to mention get their school supplies and clothes for school. We did finally find out who their teachers are going to be. I guess all that information is on the website. I'll update you further later.

Update On Computer Issues

Well, now I have internet at home on my laptop but there appears to be a problem with our home computer. The Dell Company was going to charge us 50 dollars to fix it. First of all we don't have 50 extra dollars right now and second of all we don't think we should have to pay for something that was most likely caused by them in the first place from the way it sounds, so we're getting a friend of ours who works on computers for a living to take a look and see if he can fix it, before we even consider paying them to fix the problem. We haven't called him yet, but we will or talk to him tomorrow at church. Anyway, now my laptop is hooked up in the living room in place of our desktop. So, Josh is using my computer as well. Fortunately, he's not on it a lot, cause he has his own laptop for his work and that's mostly what he uses the compute for. He does check our personal email on here and also gets on facebook for a few minutes each day. He doesn't play the games and stuff like I do. I limit my activity there, but don't completely abstain. He completely abstains from playing any games and usually taking the tests as well. Anyway, it's late and I need to get ready for bed.