The Median Sib

(1) PawPaw and I ordered the blueprints for our house, and they came on Friday.  We’re having a wonderful time looking at the prints and planning the house.  You can go HERE to see what the house looks like.

(2) On my way to and from work each day I pass a construction site where they’re building a house that looked very similar to the one we will build.  Each day for the past couple of weeks I’ve looked at it as I drove by and noted other details that are like our plan.  Although I was certain that the outside was exactly like our house, I figured the floor plan would probably be different.  Today PawPaw and I drove over there and walked through the house.  They’re in the middle of bricking the outside, and the inside is only framed in at this point.  And . . . . TA DAH!!!  It is our plan - EXACTLY!  It was so much fun to walk through it and see for real what our house will look like in a few months.  It just confirmed our feelings about how much we love the house and the floorplan.  The PawPaw went back over there awhile ago and the owner/builder was there.  They talked awhile, and the guy invited us to come over anytime while the house is in construction to look at it and walk through it.

(3) If you read my posts last week, you know that last Sunday I babysat Sweet Stuff and Sunshine, and within a couple of hours, Sweet Stuff got sick and ended up having a bad case of strep.  Thursday night I babysat them again.  The next day Sunshine was diagnosed with strep.  I told Stinkeroo (my daughter - their mother) that maybe I was like Typhoid Mary — Strep Carol.  However, she assured me that there is strep going around the daycare center. 

(4) PawPaw had strep this past week, too.  First time ever for him, and it threw him for a loop.  He’s usually so hearty and healthy that I think it shocked him to feel so bad - and shocked him even further at how drained it left him.  He’s doing fine now, though.

(5) I feel very fortunate not to have gotten strep this past week after being so directly exposed to it not once, not twice but three times!

(6) TCAP (standardized testing) is over for the year at my school.  YEAH!  We’ll get the scores back at the end of the school year.

(7) I’ve been on a banana sandwich kick the past week. I even had one for breakfast the other day.  Just can’t seem to get enough of ‘em.  Maybe my body is needing potassium.  Who knows!

I was reading Cozy Reader, and I saw this survey.  I like the “beautiful” part, but I’m not so happy about the “forgotten” part.

You Are Fall Flowers

Beautiful yet often forgotten.

What Part of Fall Are You?