November 21st

We finally have electricity! It came back on sometime Wednesday morning. My Aunt treated Eddie Vallerie and me to a hotel room on Tuesday night so we didn't have to stay in a cold dark house.

Our adventure started after we checked in.

 Eddie and Vallerie took a dip in the pool. Vallerie did a lot of "cannon balls".

 After the the pool, we went to dinner at the Hour Time restaurant. Vallerie was so polite. She introduced herself to the host. It was adorable. She said "Hi, My name is Vallerie, and these are my friends. Dad (gestured to Eddie) and Mom (gestured to me). It was awesome. She kept calling him sir. When the waitress came she was polite to her too saying please and thank you and calling her ma'am. She got a little rambunctious and she could have lowered her voice, but I'd say she was pretty good.

After dinner we went back to the room and watched tv until we all fell asleep. I thought that I would luck out and get to sleep in the same bed as Vallerie, but she kicked me out so Eddie and I had to share. It was a twin bed... very small. HAHA

When we woke up we found out that we had electricity at out house. We hung out for a little while and then checked out and went to breakfast.

We ate at IHOP. Vallerie had some blueberry pancakes with whipped cream. She seemed to really like them

Once again, she was calling the waiter "sir".

After breakfast we went shopping. (I took a vacation day) We had to replace all of our refrigerated food. Yay... We did manage to save our freezer food, so it wasn't a total loss.

When we got home Vallerie watched some tv, I cleaned out the refrigerator and pantry, cleaned the kitchen, did the dishes, and Eddie took care of the yard. The leaves needed to be raked so badly. It looks like he raked up an entire tree! 

Tonight I am seeing a movie with a couple co-worker friends. It's the premiere of the Hunger Games 2. (Catching Fire?) I did end up reading the book, and it seems like it will be a really good movie. It starts at 11pm, and we're getting there around 9pm (for good seats).

Since it is such a late showing I am taking tomorrow off. I'll probably catch up on the housework and give Eddie a much needed break from parenting duty. I know it wasn't easy keeping Vallerie entertained for 3 days without power. I have to give him props for that. If we had the $$ I would totally rent a hotel room for just him! 

November 19th

We have no electricity.

A storm went through Indiana on Sunday. Heavy winds and some tornadoes. We got some bad wind and a little storm action. We lost power on Sunday at 3pm. (Today is Tuesday). We're not supposed to get our power restored until tomorrow around noon. It's really boring at home with no electricity. Eddie's going crazy without electronics. He and Vallerie have taken me to work the last couple days so he can be out of the house.

We took our "frozen" food over to my grandpas house, but all of the fridge food is bad. We had just gone shopping on Saturday, so we were actually pretty ticked off about that. We've never lost power for this long before, so we thought it would be ok.

Last Friday I interviewed for a new position at work. A co-worker of mine also interviewed. We haven't heard anything yet, but hopefully soon we will. I kind of think it will be after the Thanksgiving holiday.

On Saturday we visited Eddie's mom. Her apartment complex was having a bizarre and lots of people had little booths set up to sell their crafts and stuff. I gave several of my paper ornaments to his mom to sell for me. I sold some of them so I was happy. I saw some cool looking scarves made out of this ribbon looking yarn. I might try to find it and make some of my own. The scarves were more decorative than for warmth. They were very pretty.

We took home a little dresser that Eddie's mom had. I put it in Vallerie's closet and put some of her things in there and then tidied up her closet. I have a bunch of baby blankets to give to Goodwill. I took out all of her 2T clothes and boxed them up (it's a lot!).

Not much else is going on, or I can't think of anything... Hopefully we get our electricity sooner than tomorrow. It's getting chilly in the house!!

November 8th

The other day we had movie night at home. We watched The Croods. It's an animated movie about cavemen. It was really good. One of the things I liked best about it was that there was no inappropriate adult humor. Vallerie seemed to like it too. She was laughing and yelling at the tv ("Watch out!") We had a big bowl of popcorn and candy. When we bought the DVD it came with a little monkey stuffed animal. Eddie gave it to her when the monkey came on the movie. She was thrilled.

We got her kitchen in the mail, It all looks good (haven't put it together yet). I didn't get part of what I ordered, so I called the company and they are sending it. I should get it soon. It's a little apron, chef hat, and oven mit.

I'm still making felt cookies and pie slices. Last night I made a "Key Lime" slice. Lemon and Chocolate are in the future. Maybe I'll try Cherry, but that also requires a little more because of the crust on top.

I am going to make more bread out of the Amish Friendship batter that I got. I'll probably end up making about 10 loaves. I'm going to try new flavors. Chocolate Chip, Pistachio, Pumpkin Spice, and White Choc Macadamia. I have everything I need. It'll be a bake-tackular weekend.

I also need to make a new goat hat. The one that I made for a co-worker last year got eaten by their dog. So that is on the list. I should probably start making that scarf I promised my sister too... hmm... I still haven't gotten her Birthday present yet. I should do that soon.

November 4th

Hard to believe that October is already gone and November is here.

Last week was Halloween. We were planning on having Eddie's family over to trick or treat. Things didn't go as planned. Eddie's mom was sick, so she couldn't come, and then they decided to reschedule Halloween because of "bad weather". The weather in town was not (in my opinion) bad enough to cancel. So one of Eddie's sisters came over (with her fam) and we had spaghetti for dinner.

Friday we went to Mulberry and did a little trick or treating. It was not good. There weren't that many houses handing out candy.

Saturday was when they rescheduled Delphi's trick or treating for, so everyone came over then. My aunt came over and had some presents for Vallerie. I think we've finally gotten Vallerie to stop using the pink dog on her bed! One of Vallerie's presents was a soft fluffy blue pillow, and a super soft (I want to steal it) blanket. Vallerie didn't want to use her dog after she got those... (yay!) She also got a robotic shark fish, which she LOVES. She named it "Water". It's actually really cool. You put it in water and it swims around for a few minutes, then you need to take it out and out it back in the water. She got a few other things too.

Back to Halloween! Vallerie painted my Aunt's face with eye shadow. It ended up looking like a giant bruise, but at least she had fun. Trick or treating started at 6pm, but we had to wait for everyone to arrive. So the kids were literally lining up down the sidewalk to knock on our door. I think Vallerie had almost as much fun handing out the candy as she did trick or treating. She'd say "Here you go" and then drop it in the kids buckets. One little girl dressed as Minnie Mouse, and Vallerie said "You don't see that everyday". It was cute.

We ended up running out of candy within about 20 minutes. By that time everyone had arrived and we were ready to head out the door. We had a pretty good time. The kids were well behaved.

Sunday we went to town and helped Eddie's sister load/unload a new coffee table. We also had lunch at the HuHot. I liked it, Eddie didn't. I think that was the same verdict we had the only other time we went there. It was a little pricey though. After that we did a little shopping. We went back to Target to buy Vallerie a dinosaur costume (like her unicorn costume) but they didn't have any left. I think we waited too long.

We bought Vallerie's Christmas present. It's a wooden stove and Fridge. I am so super excited to get it. We also bought some wooden food to go along with it. I am making some felt cookies for her (they are adorable). I'd like to get her a nice little tea set (aka not plastic) to go along with her kitchen. We're either going to buy one, or add it to her Christmas list for other people, I haven't decided yet. I am hoping that we can keep the kitchen a secret until Christmas. Last year she found one of her presents before Christmas and was so excited about it! Then we had to take it away, and after she got it at Christmas she never really played with it again. I am pretty upset about that actually. Not that she found it, but that we made her wait until Christmas to have it again.

Weighed myself today... not a good idea. Heaviest I have ever been. Very very upset.