Tuesday October 6th& Wednesday October 7th, 2009

It is still Monday night about 10pm Jalisco time, 11pm SC time and I have just gotten to bed. It is still rainy and cold, Jessie lent me a pair of sock slippers, and we put up some Halloween decorations outside, well we didn’t, Stacy and kinda sorta Cami did, we now have a big pile of 4 pumpkins on the front lawn and some purple rope lighting (I want that on my stairs) along the sidewalk of the garage and around the mailbox. Stacy tried the strobe light in the bathroom off the front entrance and it was cool looking as the window faces the street, we tried the garage but the light wasn’t bright enough to fill the whole space so I guess they will put it on the front veranda cause it looks neat there.

One of the ladies of their church stopped in this afternoon and dropped off a soup with sour cream and shredded cheese with a loaf of very fat bread because of Melanie coming into this world. A lot of the church people they know has been dropping off food since Mel was born to help out the family. So this is what we had for supper tonight. The soup had shredded chicken with tomatoes and beans and corn, it was very nummy! After supper I gave Stacy his birthday card as it has been a rule of late that around his birthday something bad happens, so I decided since I brought him into this world I could change his birth date and make it a happy occasion rather than an unhappy one. Stacy and I drank some wine that we had purchased in the largest wine store in Greenville SC and Jessie and Cami had some great apple grape sparkling wine as Cami is only 5 and Jessie is breastfeeding Melanie. We had some ice cream for dessert. I plugged in the laptop just to make sure that it works before I pack it away in the suitcase and it seems to be working fine. Well gotta go to sleep now, talk to you in the morning!

Good morning. It’s about 10am (I slept in) and Stacy is at work at Jessie was emptying the dishwasher ( I don’t have one of those anymore and I really don’t miss it). I had a cup of coffee and one Jess was done feeding Melanie she said lets go shopping before the next feeding. So no shower, but I waited at least an hour before Jess was ready (she is after all from Costa Rica so she is slower than us Canadians) we took off to Holly Lobby which is a Michael’s in disguise, and we wondered around there for a bit, I bought Melanie her first Christmas stocking and I got a few battery operated fans. Nest we went to Wal-Mart to get most of the things on my list, a pre-trea ter for laundry, corn oil and good brown sugar for popcorn balls, some poultry seasoning for turkey dressing and some more little stuff. After Wal-Mart we needed to get home to feed Melanie and wait for Cami to get home from Kindergarten (she gets a ride from another Mum).

When Melanie was fed and Cami came home we went to the mall. I found 2 shower towels from Victoria Secrets, some trivets from a kitchen store that Ross would have died and gone to heaven in and the lip gloss I have been hording for 3 years cause it is sooooooooooo good! Once we left the mall we stopped at a pool supply store and I found some floaty things (not quite the same but pretty darn close) to the one we bought in Edmonton. He actually had sold out of the floaty thing I wanted and asked if I wanted him to order one in, I told him that I was visiting and he said what I bought was about the same thing.

While I was in the pool store Jessie called Stacy and they decided we were to meet at Cracker Barrel (The best restaurant in the south to eat) for supper as Mum (me) decided to pay for dinner and we only had today to do it as the rest of the evenings I will be here are busy. We got to the restaurant and shopped in the store, it is magnificent this store, it has a little bit of everything, Christmas stuff, Halloween stuff, kitchen stuff and so much more you will have to go onto their website (if they have one) to see what else they have, It is my favorite restaurant in the south!!!!! I was very good about buying stuff, I only bought a couple of smelly tea cup coasters and a Christmas shelf guy that matches my snowmen I have for Christmas. (You would have to see it to know what I mean).

After supper we came back home (Stacy has a cold and is not feeling well at all) and he made a fire pit outside, and we all sat outside and told ghost stories and once Cami was asleep we talked about other things. It was so nice to stop and just sit! We came inside after awhile and then slowly went upstairs to bed. Stacy went first as he needs to get up early for work then Jess and I went up at about the same time. It is very tired out. I have spoken with Ross tonight and he is not feeling well at all. He has a fever of 102 and is feeling really lousy, I feel so bad that I can’t be there for him.

Good morning, I hope everyone slept well, I feel great. Slept in until 10ish came down stairs and had a good cup of coffee and chatted with Jessie for a while. After coffee I went upstairs to have a shower and see if I need to go buy another suitcase or not, which I still don’t know for sure, I think everything will fit?????? I have spoken with Ross and he thinks the fever broke this morning, now he is just really tired and lethargic, he still thinks he needs to go find a turkey, I told him not to we can have a chicken instead but oh no he is going to go out anyway! Lily is coming at 11:30 to clean so Ross thinks he can go out then. I reminded him of the last time we left Lily on her own, we got lost and didn’t get home for a long while and I think she was scared that we were never going to come back.

Jessie made 3 banana breads, one for us, one for the lady that picks up Cami from school and one for the bible study we are going to tonight. It should be quite interesting going as I have never gone to one. Jessie is cleaning the kitchen and I’m writing this and babysitting at the same time.

Live from Stacy and Jessie’s house
Stacy, Jessie, Cami, Melanie and Kim in SC and Ross in paradise!