The Beach,Buzz, Woody, A Unicorn, An Apple Peeler and More

Of course, to start all this nonsense,

I did get something painted.

I am not even sure where this came from,

but,

I think that it is going to Shawnee,

she just redid her entry and I thought it would look nice hanging in there.

On Thursday afternoon,

I got Gracelyn for an overnight.

The boys, of course wanted to play with her for awhile.

Gracelyn wanted to play beach.

Inspired by items she found in my car.

Does this give you any idea what my car would look like?

It could have it's own episode of Hoarders!

The boys obliged,

Although Logan was not obliging for a photo moment,

these two hammed it up!

Then Friday morning...

Tyler gets on the bus at our house.

Their house does not have a safe stopping place for the bus.

Gracelyn decides to ride to work with Aunt Jenn and Logan.

Thus begins a good playing day for Gracelyn and Logan,

and INSEPARABLE day for those two.

I hit a yard sale and found these items.

Not that I need two more rotary cutters,

but for that price,

someone might?

Another hoarder issue!

The kids played

Empty Vinyl Tubes Bowling

And the unicorn was another yard sale find.

They rode stick horse

 (and unicorn as Gracelyn kept telling everyone )

"It is not a horse, it has a HORN!"

All while we are trying to do this.

Lots of shirts to print.

They picked wildflowers.

One at a time,

running and giggling.

It was a little chaotic,

but we were persevering.

JWS made some comment to the effect of,

"Really, you couldn't stand it just having one child here,

one day alone for Logan and you have to get another one here?"

Oops!

And then, if all the confusion wasn't bad enough...

Nana showed up with her new apple peeler and proceeded to

read directions,

set it up,

and

peel every apple in the bowl.

Entertainment for the kiddos?

Just until the apples were gone.

And all this fun? 

All before 11 AM?

That is when I had to make a couple of deliveries in the direction of Gracelyn's house.

And she was to go home.

So it was decided that I would take her

and

JWS would take Logan to get lunch.

And the three year old and four year old

decided

that was not going to work for them.

They were going together.

They would go with either grandparent,

but they were not going to be separated.

Fearing a scene at Gracelyn's house when they finally HAD to be separated,

I decided to take Logan anyway and run the route backwards

so that they had time to visit.

One of the deliveries was a run in

and I could leave them in the car.

I know, I know,

but really it was only ten feet from the car and it WAS just a drop.

Don't '

"Bad Grandma"

me!

The other was at the place that both of their Dad's work

so that was OK also,

I could take them in there.

So

we load up.

Gracelyn's overnight bag

The balloon bouquet from the clown that she could not live without

The piece of wood that she painted for her Mom.

Buzz Lightyear

Woody

A regular stick horse

and

A unicorn stick horse.

A booster seat

A car seat

and

Two Preschoolers.

Oh and don't forget the boxes of shirts that have to be delivered.

All I can say is that I am sure glad that I took the beach umbrella and mat out

or there might not have been room for all that.

About halfway into the circle that I had to make..

and that was about twenty five miles into it.

I hear a siren.

I put on the brakes,

slow down and start to pull to the side of the road.

all the time thinking ambulance...

and I hear

"To Galactia and Beyond!"

Apparently Buzz Lightyear has a real authentic sounding siren.

All before NOON!

The rest of the day went well.

There was no huge scene when I left Gracelyn,

I got work done in the afternoon,

JWS and I came home

from work and stacked a huge load of firewood.

Without

Injury!

The Apple Peeler Queen

aka My MIL

cooked supper for us,

We came home and I was in bed by

8:30.

Wonder why?

Today is a totally free day.

Not many of those in my life anymore.

I am going to paint, paint, paint.

Our open house is in two months,

YIKES!