Happy Veteran's Day

The weather today was beautiful, and the girls and I had a plan, which we wrote on a scrap of paper with a crayon last night. Mostly it was my plan and the girls just signed their consent. Here was the plan:

Wake up!
Eat breakfast
Take bathes and get dressed for the day (very important because all my children were very dirty.)
Find the missing library book
Return books to the library and go the the grocery store
Eat lunch
Rake leaves
Quiet time
Make dinner
Eat dinner
Deliver dinner to a sick friend (planned service, not random)
Go to bed

Notice that waking up was probably the most important part of this plan. Because it was a holiday and none of us had to actually be anywhere (except Matt, who did not get a holiday) we had the potential for never waking up the entire day.

Other high points in the day include actually finding the missing library book, making it in and out of the store without losing any children, or fingers (I may or may not have made threats about fingers falling off if my children let go of the cart to touch unneeded items.), and raking most of the front yard and part of the back. At one point MaryEllen stood on the stump of a felled tree looking very Lorax like. She also won my heart when she offered end of season mums to Jill who was hiding under my big black leaf moving tarp as if the whole leaf raking project had thrown her into deep mourning.

Now it's late and I'm tired. The laundry is still in piles, but at least they are clean piles now instead of dirty ones.