Fun In a Box*
On Friday afternoon, the Great Cookie Debacle 2009 happened. The girls participated in a fund raiser for school where they sold boxes of delicious Otis Spunkmayer cookies.  They come pre-formed and FROZEN.  Being overachievers (aka there are two of them so people felt the need to buy two boxes each– including myself because I LOVE this brand of cookie), they sold 20 boxes (total together).  The way the fundraiser is set up is on the day the cookies arrive, you go to the school between 3 and 6 pm to pick up your frozen cookies and from there you deliver the goods. If you were

Filler
I’m not convinced that I’ll have time to actually tell you anything today so I am just going to show you a couple of photos Joel took using the kids’ telescope and my camera. Admit it, he’s got talent. He’s just like America.

Like Button
Playing with the box the cookies (see Twitter feed….aargh!) came in. (This needs the like button Sarah referred to in the afternoon reprieve post.)

Distracted
Folks, today I am listening to and/or reading this: I have book club at 6:00 pm and must be done by then.  I think I’ll make it… Have you read it?  Any thoughts?

Glaringly Obvious
Wow. Sometimes I really just want to push a few brain cells around in my head.  I can be so ignorant about things. I am going to talk about… you guessed it: Aselya! I have written here so many times how spirited she is.  I have written about how loving she can be.  I am always so dumbfounded at how the two sides of her can flip so quickly.  She can be such a challenge.  She can be so perplexing.  I am feeling so GAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH right now because it seems that I have just been overlooking the issue we have going on right now. I am not going to share what she did.  I am just going to say that yesterday afternoon Aselya did something tha