October

 

We really, really lucked out with neighbors here. Mr. Chris lives next door and is basically a surrogate grandpa to all the neighborhood kids. They love to raid his little dollhouse/shed and pull out all the lawn furniture. Then they steal all the snacks from my pantry and have a tea party in his backyard. 

We heard it was going to be a potentially bad flu/Covid season, so we decided to have everyone get their shots before things got bad. We got an appointment at the local Walgreens, only to have them announce that they were out of shots. So we loaded everyone back up and headed to the other Walgreens (which is literally 1/2 mile away, thankfully) and waited in line. Thankfully I was smart and brought all the devices:

We survived. 

And we got ice cream after because we needed it. 

Melissa asked me to pick up her boys after school one day. I was there a bit before the bus and decided to just wait in the car. I opened my door to let some cooler air in and got a special visitor:

The Knox boys thought it was pretty funny to find their cat in my car.

Thankfully Zara hopped out before we tried to drive away. 

Our ancestor celebrations continue! In honor of one ancestor who was a bartender, I tried to buy some birch beer. Walmart substituted with ginger beer. Being naive, I popped one open and had everyone take a sip. And it tasted like BURNING. 

Drunk children

Doug Mullins came over the next day and informed me that no one drinks ginger beer straight--it's a mixer. He whipped up some lemonade with a bit of ginger beer and it was delicious. Sorry, children!

And, finally, a project! Elijah has outgrown his high chair, which meant we had outgrown our table with six seats. Solution: buy a bench! We couldn't find one we liked that was padded, so we did our own upholstery. Not perfect, but it works!

Two thumbs up from Elijah!