Rainy-day movies and spending time with friends before school.

[navygreen]

It's raining softly now, but we were having a major thunderstorm earlier this morning. I am thankful that I didn't have outdoor plans for today.

I do have plans to clean out the boys' closets once again, getting everything ready for going back to school. Jack has so many, many clothes - new one from Heather, half of last year's stuff that still fits and all of A.J.'s old clothes from this age. A.J. needs a new shirt or two, and I need to move some smaller stuff out of his closet and put it into bins for Jack later on. His backpacks is already packed with all the necessary paperwork for tomorrow, so no worries there.

But I do hope there's a bright spot in the morning for that "first day of school" picture.

I might bake some more zucchini bread this afternoon. A.J. wants to take some to his new teacher, and I've already got some zucchini shredded in the refrigerator, plus six more whole zucchini. Later on this evening, Heather2 and Josie are coming over to bake chocolate chip and gingerbread cookies. She wants to makes some of each to take with her when she deploys in two weeks. I'm sure it will be fun.

Heather brought over a yummy dinner of ham steaks and homemade macaroni 'n cheese last night, and I cooked up some carrots from the garden to serve with it. She also brought over a fresh fruit salad, and we had that for dessert with some whipped cream. It was very yummy, but I was so full later! We scrapbooked for a few hours after dinner, doing a re-watch of both The Prince & Me and Hollywood Homicide. After she left, I continued working and also watched The Fast and the Furious. All three of those movies are in our current DVD collection, so I made no progress on my Netflix rentals.

I find that it's easier to scrapbook while watching something that I've already seen, though. I don't have to feel bad about just listening, as I'm looking down at my work to much to be actually watching.

I'd better get moving on today's agenda items. I want to be done with everything and able to scrapbook some more tonight!

Comments

[minivan-mom.livejournal.com]

Wow! Where is Heather2 deploying to & for how long? Away from her little girl?! That mommy is going to be in my prayers! I can't imagine how hard that must be.

Thank God for our military. They sacrifice so much. Wow...

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

She leaves between 8/28-9/1, and she'll be gone through January. And yes, she's very upset about it. She's so sad to be missing Josie's first "true" holidays, too. Yeah, she's 15 months old now, so she was around for them last year, but this is the first year she would "get" Halloween and Christmas, you know?

:-(

[starrchld.livejournal.com]

I hope it clears up for pictures!

As for zuchinni bread, I really should make some, considering the massive amount of zuchinni we currently have, lol. I'm not sure if I wan tto go through all that though...

I need motivation!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

It did!

[starrchld.livejournal.com]

I think Monday was the nicest day this week!

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

I find that it's easier to scrapbook while watching something that I've already seen, though.

Yep, Know exactly what you mean. Some TV series are good for that too.

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Very true. I scrapbooked for two years to "Party of Five" reruns late at night.