At the Courthouse

Well, today I am sitting in the county court house waiting to see if they pick me as a juror. Boy, I hope not! I didn’t know until late last night that I was supposed to report today. We woke up to an inch of snow today, so the girls are at home for a 2-hour late start day. Mike had to stay home to work so I could be here!

This is a weird experience. I have never done it before.

Later: They didn’t end up picking me. I know too many police officers! It was a driving under the influence case, so since I lost someone in my family to that type of accident, they might have thought it would affect my impartiality.

So, what else has been going on in the last couple days? On Saturday I took my extra craft supplies up to that garage sale put on by one of my favorite stores, Treasury of Memories. I sold $280 worth of stuff, but I only get it in store credit! What a great racket huh! I know I sold stuff for more than I would have otherwise and you won’t hear me complaining about my store credit!

The girls came with me and we had a “girl” day. We went to play at McDonald’s and shopped at my favorite store. I bought the girls each a new Webkins. I guess I like to spoil them a little. Anika picked a stuffed Hedgehog. Kelby got a cute puppy and Tegan got a black panther.

We got to go to some friends’ house for dinner that night. We had a great time playing a game called, “Ticket to Ride”…I think that is what it was called anyway. It was a train themed game. I can’t wait until we get to play again. I’ll have to buy it I think.

On Sunday we had our little church event. It was pretty fun and big success because way more ladies came than we expected. I hope they enjoyed it too.

On Monday we had Kelby’s appointment, but I already mentioned that was uneventful!

Tuesday was Mike’s 34th birthday. It was really a sad birthday…at least by my standards. He isn’t really a big “birthday” guy. He just wanted to keep it simple and didn’t even care if I made him his favorite meal. At least he picked something that I don’t make very often, so that was something special. I didn’t even have to bake him a cake because he wanted the apple pie that we’ve had in the freezer since Halloween as his cake! It was yummy though. He got to open a few presents from love ones, and that was it. He didn’t complain. I’m not as good at spoiling him as he is at spoiling me!

I have been a little down this week. I have a lot going on with Ladies’ Ministries and I’m a little overwhelmed. I want everything to go well and I’ve spread myself too thin. That means that a few things are starting to suffer a bit. It will all work itself out, but I need to start shrinking my role and I’m  starting to see why! I had a few meetings on Wednesday and invited some extra kids over (the girls had a half day on Wednesday), so there went another day!

So, today is Thursday and that started out with being at the court house. Yikes, I have been busy. I even forgot to wish my dear Gramma Schraer a happy 85th birthday! Sorry Gramma! I thought that things would slow down this week. Oh well, we’ll hope it will next week.