Pippin, Mark, and Vash thinking of ways not to be too productive yet today. (Sorry about the frightening green eyes on the dogs as I haven't figured out how to adjust the camera settings yet to avoid that...maybe this week.) The most popular guy around the house this morning...he's sorta great at cuddling.
We are having kind of a lazy Sunday morning...raining outside and kinda dreary, inspiring no one to be too keen on getting outside to remove the outdoor Christmas lights. Schlepping about reading the newspaper and playing with the dogs seems a much better choice, don't you agree? (That's good if you agree because maybe our neighborhood homeowners association will let it slide and refrain from sending any notes like this: "We hope that you all had a very nice holiday and now that vacations are over, we trust that the Christmas lights will all be down as soon as possible. Thank you for your attention to details.")
Busy afternoon as we have one to get to Driver's Ed (last class, yeah!), one to get to choir rehearsal, Mark and I get to go to Katie and Gary's Open House yearly bash, and then we get to retrieve said younger members from said locations before heading to church, followed by Life Teen, and the very disappointing realization that SCHOOL STARTS BACK UP AGAIN TOMORROW. (Actually I am looking forward to aspects of that...one can only be footloose and fancy free for so long before the guilt sets in. I took these two weeks off to be with the family, so I am missing my usual rounds of volunteer work, friends, chores, etc. etc. and am looking forward to getting back into my routines. And, oh, yes, indeedy, Alex really needs to be back in school with more people to bounce off of each day.)
To finish off here, I am adding this to my list of Things I Don't Really Want to Hear or Know About: I asked Matt if he had all his school uniforms ready to go, gym uniforms, etc., and he said, "Yep, all ready to go. And, by the way, Mom, you have got to lighten up about that gym uniform thing because I am the ONLY one I know that has a clean gym uniform every day. Some of those kids didn't wash them a single time yet and some only took them home over Christmas to get them washed for the rest of the year this one time." OMW...these are not things I can even fathom. Can you even IMAGINE this? Wait, don't answer that...I don't even want to know.