Ok, the whole reason I wrote that last post was for James to follow up with The Rest of the Story.  He hasn't had time, so it fell rather flat. And now, it just doesn't seem as funny. See, after I got the car seat, James put the new one in and started moving Will's old one over for Alex. Will thought his new seat was great. He wanted to sit in it. So we put him in (with PJs on) and buckled him up. He wanted me to shut the door, so I did and went I inside to do other things. James worked away while Will watched.  When he was finally done, Will wanted him to shut the door and leave him there. In the car. In his car seat. In the closed garage. At night. At the time, all I knew was Will was crying as James was carrying him to bed.  We have no idea why he wanted to stay there. (Did he want to stay all night? Was he just wanting to be alone with the car seat for awhile? We have NO idea.)  Anyway, now you know The Rest of the Story. (To borrow that line. Somehow, "the rest of the story" just seems like it should be capitalized.)

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This last week I did something for me.  I usually spend all my free time working for the office (the kid's nap time and evenings). I've decided that's not the best (though really, it's easy work and I watch TV while doing it, so I don't feel like it's stressful or anything). Last week I took a night and ALL day Saturday off to do something I really like to do–scrapbook. I know some of you are rolling your eyes. But it is my time to be creative & feel like I'm accomplishing things. Everything else I do always has more to do or has to be done over again. Cleaning. Laundry. The office work.  I also usually do my scrapbooking in social settings, so I get to chat with other women while I do it. I was proud of myself, I went to an all day event in the area. In the past, I've driven up to Marion to do it with my friend up there. I just couldn't justify the time or mileage this time. But I was brave and went off on my own and had a good time. And got 7 pages done. And, like all scrapbookers, I am behind, but I'm pleased that I've started our album for 2004.  At that point in time, I don't have many pictures so most of the year will go fast. Until Christmas…that is when I got the digital camera and then the number of pictures taken increased just a tad. Wink  On Sunday we ended up driving to the area to visit my parents & my sister who was in town for Homecoming. It was a relaxing day to just hang out.

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Wednesday we had a warm, dry day, so we spent the morning planting bulbs I'd gotten on sale. My degree/education came into play again. In the past, I honed the skills of explaining how what we were doing was 'educational' or meeting specific standards or goals. In that light, I could say we worked on biology (as I explained why we were putting the brown things in the ground and how they would become flowers–I did not go into great detail though!), meteorology (as I explained seasons), math ("We have 3 bulbs, we want to put 5 in this hole. If we add another one, how many do we have?"), and a dose of physical education as well (aside from the digging of the holes, there was lots of running and more practice kicking the big, bouncy, ball). I'm thinking I should do this more, it makes me feel like our days are more productive. 

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Tomorrow we're going to the Pumpkin patch again, this time with friends. I'm hoping Alex will nap in the morning and be in a better mood when we go. I never posted pictures of our family trip because I had a hard time getting the kids to smile. He never fussed, but the pictures weren't his best. We'll see if we can get some good pictures of the boys this time. Will is excited about riding the tractor again.  All I can say is "boys".