Rainy Monday Mornings

What a rainy but positive day… I made beef and gravy in the slowcooker and forgot to put it on low… so this happy mistake meant I could have it for lunch and then put it on warm for dinner! The boys and I had another first – a walk downtown in the RAIN! In fact we did not get more than half a block when we ran into Chris and Drew Baxter – friends from high school! I had seen Chris recently but I figure it has been years since I had seen Drew. So we had a lovely chat in the rain. This afternoon Emanuel even had a lovely long nap… the boys have been relatively positive though we did have an incident this morning – during my bath the twins decided to get into some of my paper and scrunched up a bunch of my graph paper and a little paper with some of the stamps I borrowed from Karyn. Luckily I can borrow those again and I still have graph paper left over but they each got a spanking and had to say SORRY. I really think Zander at the very least meant it!
I finally added all out labels from Pampers – we have almost 400 points again – that was how much Emanuel’s trike was. Ken and I have also decided what we want to get the twins for Christmas – a table for the wooden train set James got them – Ken thinks he may even be able to make one if he can borrow mom’s garage! Emanuel I am still debating but I think more Pocoyo merchandise – there is this little tub toy that is the Vamoosh from the show I know he would love! That and more train pieces if I can hunt down the same brand!
I am on a roll I swear – dinner made except rice to go in the steamer at 5, another stitch done… one more well in the works… caught up in my emails, working on Facebook and up to the zoo trip to add on the family site… tonight I need to make the necklace for my cousin’s gift (now I really need to get moving on that) and Ken needs to clean and iron for me. Then the card and back downtown to mail it! I doubt the nursing necklace will be used but it is a nice keepsake!
I really need to make my way to the cross stitch material store in the city, I am a part of two different exchanges – an advent one (24 small and one large gift) and then the birthday cards one where I put two skeins in the card on the person’s birthday… at Michaels I am limited…
Well the kids are up from nap and only one is happy colouring which means Zander and Emanuel need supervision so Emanuel does not get shoved aside… the joys of boys I guess!

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