The Puddles

today I went to the Houston Arboretu.  i loved it good thing i went there because it is a GirlSout fillchrip and I love GirlSout fillCHrips well i’m a  GIRLSOUT.Well i got to go.goodbuy.

but  before i go whats 3+3= i no it 6 buy. thankyou for lisensting.my name is Ainsley and i’m 6 thankyou goodbuy.

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our neighbor’s son, Eddie, is asking a girl to prom tomorrow. He wanted to do something creative, so he decided to decorate two T-shirts and ask her over the announcements at school. He came with two tshirts and asked for help. I was able to find some iron on letters in my craft closet and a few sheets of printable transfers. After a lot of consultation, he came up with the final design and I spent the next two hours making the shirt.
It was a lot of fun. It gave us an insight to high school life (it is scary) and the world of teenagers(utterly frightening). Not that it was too bad but I am ready to seriously consider a secluded convent in the isolated hills of South Dakota. I would just like to avoid the entire teenage years.

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For reasons that shall not be mentioned here, the kids and I had to do a deep cleaning of the kitchen.  We disinfected the entire kitchen.  If the kids had not have helped, I don’t know if I ever would have finished.  We pulled out every thing from every shelf,  threw stuff away, and wiped down shelves with disinfectant.  It took most of Saturday to do this.  It smelled like Pinesol for weeks after that.  The kids actually enjoyed the process.  They got to put gloves on and climb into cabinets.  It was great.  I’m not sure when these shelves have ever been that clean.  It felt good to be in the kitchen after that.  

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This may seem odd to everyone else, but for Christmas I gave Chris a date to the National Museum of Funeral History.  Lunch and a trip to a museum dedicated to death.  It may seem morbid, but Chris has been wanting to go this museum since we moved to Conroe.

I thoroughly enjoyed the trip and Chris did too.   Probably the most fascinating part of the entire museum was the triple casket and the story that went with it.  I’ve included the story in the pictures here.  Wow. Now that is some sorrow.  My next favorite was the party bus built for funerals.  There was enough room for several caskets and over 20 mourners (see picture with Chris in it).  The funeral home that built it stopped using it after the bus was trying to go up a hill and the incline was too much.  So the bus tilted backwards and the caskets fell out and the mourners did too.  I can’t imagine the horror felt by the mourners!

We had a great time and I can’t wait for our next adventure!

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I took these cute photos!  Lovin’ Ainsley’s tongue and Ben’s scowl.

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Ainsley got a new gymnastics outfit today. She has stuck with it for over two months so I figure she has earned a new outfit. So I ask her how she likes it. She says, “I will stay in gymnastics forever if I can keep wearing cute outfits like this!”

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So I finally downloaded all of the photos from my camera and I have 1200 photos to go through.  1200??!?!!!  How did I let that happen?  And there are some cute ones there too!  I can’t wait to put some up.  I’ll have to take an entire day off just to get them all posted.  Or maybe I can function on only 5 hours of sleep a night?  What a quandry?  I am so willing to sacrifice cooking dinner in order to do it.  But unfortunately, the kids can’t survive on peanut butter sandwiches.  So it will take a while to do it, but I will thoroughly enjoy the process!

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I finally caved this week.  I went and bought myself new socks. Please understand . . . I have plenty of socks. But my eldest daughter has taken to borrowing all of my socks.  I mean all of them.  I have not purchased socks in ten years (so it was probably time anyways).  I’ve tried to curtail my daughter’s desire to wear my socks, but I think she finds it fascinating that she can fit in them. It is truly a novelty to her and an aggravation to me!  But alas, if this is the worst of it . . . it’s not so bad.  I’ll just keep buying more socks for myself, so Madie has plenty to wear.

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It was a good night in the Lake house. Madie presented her three month project on Rick Riordan the author of the Percy Jackson series . I prefer the Kane Chronicles which is all a bit of contention between Madie and I. I keep trying to get her to read about the Egyptian mythology series with the Kane Chronicles. She keeps trying to get me to read about the Greek mythology of the Percy Jackson series. It is all in good fun!

Madie did a great job on this project. We are proud of her. I was truly impressed with it all.

Here she is explaining her project to the principal.
A notice to all Percy Jackson fans. . .please notice her orange shirt with “Camp Half-blood” on the front! It was fun addition that we made together this week.

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