Up Late and Updates!

Hidey-Ho good people!

I napped this afternoon, then napped again late this evening, and now I'm wide awake.  I think it's this cool weather.  I have to be up early in the morning, so I just made myself a cup of coffee, and I'm just going to stay up and play on the computer until time to get ready.

We are going on a camping trip this weekend.  The kids actually have already left.  They rode up last night with friends who are going to the same place.  They left right after school, so Thomas and I had the house to ourselves all afternoon and evening.  He's snoring away now, but my eyes won't close.

We're going to a yearly Camporee, hosted by some friends of ours.  Their family owns a campsite about an hour away from here, rather a large one, and once a year they have a big shin-dig there with friends and family; by invitation only.  There are shower and bathroom facilities, sites for pitching tents and sites for campers or RVs.  No one except our group will be in the whole campsite.  We actually know most of the people there, and when a new family comes, well, it doesn't take long to get to know them, too.

Tomorrow there are a lot of activities planned for the younger crowd with games and prizes, including a scavenger hunt.  Eler Beth will enjoy that.  She is with one of her very best friends, "S", whom I've mentioned before.   Andrew is with two of his very best friends, as well.  Tomorrow night is a big chili cook-off, and there will be a lot of music being played, card games going on, and who knows what.  The only thing there will not be is drinking.  Not allowed!

There is a nice creek that runs through the campgrounds, so Thomas will probably be fishing most of the day and night tomorrow.  Eler Beth, I'm sure, will be joining him after all the games are over.  I plan to sit or lie in the shade with a couple of good books, take some walks through the woods (I hope the leaves are changing!), and visit with whomever I happen to happen upon!

So I guess it's just as well that I'm up now, and catching up on journals.

Don't forget your mammogram!!!  Don't forget to Click to help fund mammograms!

My friend is out of the hospital.  She is staying with her mother for a few days, until she is able to get up and do for herself.  She is still in good spirits, and feeling fairly well, considering.  The doctor said she will have to have about 18 months of chemo.  The first series will be by IV, but the ones after that will be by pill.  I've decided to make myself her own personal little Chemo Angel, and send her cards and/or goodies every week when she starts her rounds of chemo.

Since a lot of people haven't been getting alerts, it's just as well that I haven't been making any entries lately.  I've been busy with getting ready for this weekend, and setting up the school store at Eler Beth's school, which I've managed for about 7, going on 8, years now.  We usually have it going earlier than this, but because of the new building, we're a little behind.

Well, so long for now.  I'm off to visit some more journals.

Tags: Breast cancer awareness, funding mammograms