Sunday October 4th & Monday October 5th, 2009

Good evening from South Carolina. What a wonderful day it has been today, a bit on the chilly side but that is what sweaters are for. After breakfast we putzed around, I did a lot of baby holding and I changed her diaper. Now it has been awhile so I’m kinda rusty when it comes to changing diapers, I had the clean one out took off the dirty one and was cleaning a little butt when she was not quite finished doing her business so she pooped again. I did not, I repeat, did not have the clean diaper under her so between Stacy and I (mostly Stacy) we cleaned up the mess and I got the clean diaper on, hurray for me!

Since we got up so late Stacy and Jessie had decided we were going to go to church at 5, but we were so late getting up and going, decided against going to church and we started on my shopping list I have. We stopped at Best Buy first and found a HP laptop for 549.00, with dual processor and 3 GB of ram, we are going to look on line to see if we can get it cheaper, if we can we will have them deliver here in 2 days and I’ll be able to take it home, if not we will go back and get that one. I found a Spanish/English translator there too, however we stopped in at Office Max and found one for 4.00 cheaper, oh well. We then went to a sporting goods store to look for a floaty for the pool but they didn’t have anything for pools, so we went to Petsmart and got a larger cat door, some kitty treats (that by the way when I got ready for bed tonight one of Stacy’s cats had gotten into one of the bags, she is laying right beside me on the bed as I type, her very favorite person) and a dog brush.

We got to Bed Bath and Beyond (no floaties for the pool) but found a couple of towels, some plastic wine glasses, a cheap pair of standard size pillowcases in the colour I needed and a few other odds and ends. Oh yeah, I have been looking for a device that scans photos and converts them to a jpeg file to store all my old pictures on the computer, wanted to give the actual pictures to the kids. I found one regular price 179.00 on sale for 129.00 with an in store rebate so I got it for 59.00. I bought Stacy and Jessie for a house warming present some glasses that Jessie fell in love with that matches her dishes. We stopped at a restaurant with a bakery in it looking for some hamburger buns for supper but had to go to a grocery store for them.

Once back home Jessie made up some hamburger for supper, put beans and corn in pots to heat and went to feed Melanie. Stacy made a very skinny hamburger added a piece of cheese in the centre and added another skinning hamburger and mushed them together. He had seen this done on TV and thought it looked good, well they were, trust me. Cami had cheese tortilla’s (she wanted me to add what she had to eat) .He also went out and started a fire pit so once supper was done we were going to sit in front of the fire and catch up. I even got my jeans on (they still fit hurray!) a shirt and two sweaters but it started to rain after supper so we got our jammies on, and ate pistachios, watched the move The Incredibles and I held Melanie for a very long time, it was wonderful. I also had a great cup of tea I can’t remember the name of the tea but it was very cherry. It’s 10:40 my time and 11:40 SC time and I have taken my bedtime pills and am now getting very sleepy. I’m going to say goodnight now, from Jordan’s bedroom with a cat at my side.

Good morning! I had a fabulous sleep though waking up at 9am is a little too early for me but oh well. Jessie made a French toast in a square cake pan with brown sugar and walnuts; it was to die for, along with coffee and juice. The rain hasn’t stopped so it’s kinda dreary out and chilly, I might have to pick up some socks at Wal-Mart. We sat around for a bit, Stacy and I went to pick up cami from school then drove south a very very long way to meet up with a girl that advertised a child carrying back pack for Melanie next summer for hiking and stuff, we picked it up for 25.00, it looks like new and is in perfect condition. When we got back to Greenville we stopped at a liquor store and then went back to Best Buy to pick up the laptop (the computer one wasn’t that cheap). We are about to have some supper so I’ll say bye for now.

Talk to you soon
Stacy, Jessie, Cami, Melanie and Kim in SC Ross in paradise!