Date Night!

I'm a bit late blogging tonight as it is "date night" for the neighbor children's parents!  This is a special date night for Nathan and Kathy as they will celebrate their 12th anniversary on Sunday.  Goosey (Woody) and I have been treated to magic, gymnastic and other daring acts this evening.  After those acts, there was a bowling tournament and then lots of  bedtime stories!  They are in bed now and I left Goosey to hold down the fort till Nathan and Kathy get home.  I came home to blog and put my foot up!  It has been another busy day.  Woody walked early this morning...a good thing as we had thunderstorms settle in between 9 and 10am that stayed around a while.  I was having school with Elijah when they first started rumbling. Then there was a bit of a break that gave Esther an opportunity to head over for her school time.  It got VERY windy for a short time...Esther's eyes got rather big when she saw the tree branches swaying outside the school room window. The storms left and Esther and Elijah went home.  Joy came over to work on one of her lessons and another round of storms came through. The plants are happy to be getting regular drinks of water these days. Nathan and Kathy and the rest of the children came over before Joy left.  They came over to have a family time looking at a scrapbook I made many years ago about our family trip to Yellowstone and points beyond.  There is such a trip in their future and they are beginning to make plans and shared the Yellowstone destination with the children today.  Kathy and I took Abigail to the shoe store today to get her some new tennis shoes...we had taken Graham a couple of days ago. After that trip I took a short power nap to get ready for kidsitting duty this evening.  Woody has cleaned up the kitchen, made our vegetarian burrito recipe, read, done crossword puzzles and other rainy day activities today.