Dreams, Glitter and Tears

For fun today I decided to blow a whopping $7 and get the kids a slip n slide. Upon opening, I discovered that persons over 110 pounds, 5 feet tall or "adults" are not to use said slip n slide. Of course, this means I HAD to.

See fun and said conga'ing below:



London

Kay, laughing after a half flop

James, who never got it right

Oh yeah baby! Kersplash!

and of course...

I'm backjournaling and pre-apologise for doing it all out of order. I promise in a few days my journal will make sense again. Thanks for your patience!

I decided to just photojournal the trip back from Memphis since I didnt have my computer with me to enter everything in a document like I have been lately. Here is "Memphis to Sugar Land, in pictures with captions"




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Today was Lauras eye appointment. She kept begging and pleading for contact lenses and I kept telling her that there was no way that we were going to get them for her because of their price. I also told her that they're hard to put in and that you can feel them. This is no big deal to her, she just wants colored contacts! it'll look cool. And she watches her friend put lenses in all the time, it's easy. *sigh* I say no again and again. We pick some really nice frames that are just *so* Laura. The doctor tells me that I likely have astigmatism and nearsightedness, and that I should get my eyes checked. I get the bright idea of asking him to give me some samples of non-prescription color contact lenses. I love playing with the colors and this way Laura can try some without us shelling out the cash for them. I pick about 6 different colors and get to take them home. Most of them say "demo" on them somewhere on the colored part or around the colored part so they're just for fun around the house. But 1 pair doesn't. Caribbean Aqua. I wasn't going to get it originally, it looked fake on the example paper.

When I got them home I put them in. I love them. Against my natural green eyes, they are the prettiest and amazingly natural looking turquoise. I'll be sad when they are too old to wear anymore. I plan to wear them just now and then and take care of them inbetween.

I dropped Laura off at school and then went to Kays school to drop off Kays glasses. I watched houston symphony orchestra bassists give a show to the kids, her class was watching. It was really cool. Kay has decided though that she wants to play the flute. Flutes are expensive so I hope that we will be able to find her a student flute for cheap on ebay or something. I also applied for James and I to get our eyes checked by the Doctor that saw Kay and Laura, at his request. He said we should be able to get help with getting the checkup and glasses for cheap if not free. That's the best price.

Later in the evening, Emily, Laura and I decided to try on the contacts that I'd gotten earlier. I showed the girls how to do it, and coached them through little things. Em gave up after a while but got awfully close to getting one in, Laura got a set in and liked how they looked but decided she didnt like how they felt and took them back out. We had a big woman adventure, it was fun.

I totally didn't feel like cooking so I scrapped together my change and some reward coupons that the kids earned from school. I took all of the kids to McD's for dinner. Only spent 10 and change to get dinner for the entire family. We usually spend about 17 or so. Not bad. after that, we scrapped together the rest of the change and got James a couple beers. James deserved it, he worked extra hard this past 2 weeks and his paycheck actually showed it. Now he can get his glasses and we can get me a new set of tires!

Emily, Kay, London and I had a girls night out. We went skating!! At first, Kay and London were a bit nervous about skating on the smooth floor because it's so much easier to fall there but they got the hang of it in no time and were racing all over the place. I realized that there's a few muscles that I really have to strengthen up if I intend to skate on a regular basis. My legs are already sore!!

There weren't very many other people there, even with tonight being "Pizza Night". 7-9pm skating, free skates (we brought our own because skating in public skates is icky!) and all the pizza you can eat for $6.75! 2 hours doesnt seem like a long time to skate but we were all pretty worn out by the time it was over. Also, they let us stay and skate for an additional half hour, just because they're so darn nice.

A couple of the employees were skating next to eachother, dancing and twirling in unison. It was so awesome. I chatted with one for a while, he was really nice. He also taught me a few things. I loved the show he put on with his dance-skating and antics. I can only hope to someday be able to do a few of the neat things they were doing. Or maybe just skate faster than I do... I dunno.

In all, the night was fantastic. We plan to go back in a few weeks to take advantage of Kay and London's free skating passes. Should be fun. I personally can't wait.