Kevin! It was Kev's birthday yesterday. I took 4 pictures of him and it kept glaring and I gave up so here is my very shiny husband! Kev wanted to eat at Paradiso so that's what we did. Kids under 8 eat free on Sunday (4 of them) and Kev ate free because it was his birthday! I ate too much! : ) It was a very pleasant time.
The girls are busy with symphony starting last week. Jordan has practice and then Em so it is a long day. Jordan tried out for the Chamber players and got into a piece with two others; a violin and a viola. She is excited and nervous because she got 1st violin in the piece and it is a little challenging. Em is a little nervous because their conductor asked them to memorize a part in one song! He said he'd give away a Dairy Queen Blizzard if they can do it. It's a pretty big orchestra so I'm not sure he means it!?! He is quite the joker; making fun of kid's shoes, if they are home schooled, if they missed a note, all kinds of disparaging comments but it seems to be all in fun.
Last week was busy trying to get school in each day, painting the boy's newly finished room, sewage backing up on one end of the house, plumber coming to work on basement bathroom and clear the blocked sewer system, lessons, symphony, and canning raspberry jelly (mmmm, love it). Kev and I stayed up til 3 a.m. painting the room one night and cleaning up sewage. It poured down in my canning room so Kevin washed down about 100 jars of food and threw shelves that were soaked through and a few other things. It was disheartening at the time. Now that there are new shelves to replace the bad ones, the jars and everything are washed, and the floor repainted it doesn't seem such a big thing. Our basement bathroom has a fully functioning shower (although we won't use it until the bathroom is completely finished). Kevin has a lot of work down there! :( It may be quite awhile before it's sheet rocked and mudded since he does it in his free time.
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