Errand Day

This morning, Kevin was pulling out his collection of yarn and tying my bedroom door shut. Yesterday, he had strung it all over the family room so that it looked like a huge spiderweb and was difficult to walk from one side of the room to the other. I mentioned I had not taken a picture yesterday, so he said he would recreate it. Well, this is NOTHING compared to yesterday, but he tied up a few strings from the family room to Daddy's bedroom while he was still sleeping. Spiders work very quietly though.

The plan today was to take Kevin to school in Cary, then run a bunch of errands -- all back in Cary as that is where I know where to accomplish things. However, Kevin's school was canceled, so he joined me. It took a while to get ready to leave the house. A certain boy was impatient. He set out his and my snow/cold weather gear and a stool to sit on for doing up boots. How is that for being impatient but constructive about it?!

The first stop on our list (and farthest away) was the hair salon where Kevin's nanny used to take him for haircuts. I liked the way they did his hair; whereas, I have not liked how other places have cut it. His hair is beginning to grow out from his lice induced shaving, but was looking shaggy. He is no longer raggedy!

We had to wait quite a while for our turn, but found some interesting literary games to keep young minds occupied. There was only one child's book in the waiting area -- a rhyming story of penguins slipping on the ice ala "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed." But this story ends with the doctor telling the mother to let the Penguins have fun! I read the story with exaggerated rhythm, then he helped me read it. Next we pointed out the rhyming words. Then we played a game of saying a word and the other person has to name a rhyming word. Fun!

Our literary games were much more fun than sitting in a chair waiting for your hair to be trimmed!

Next, we made several stops -- Hallmark cards for V cards and gifts for Greg's family, some groceries to make cookies tonight (which never happened...), pink roses for Mommy's grave, and mailing outgrown clothes to Kien and Gabe the Valentines for the whole family.
At the postal outlet, there were nice big piles of snow in the parking lot. Of course, he had to be King of the Mountain!


GOOD NEWS!!! I called the cemetery this morning, and we did not have a theft in the cemetery! They had removed the wreath as decorations other than the vase floral arrangements are not allowed except in the winter. I was under the impression last year that winter ended at lawn mowing time. They told me today that winter ends on January 25. Really?! Anyway, no thievery.
But because someone pulled out the last floral arrangement leaving the broken off styrofoam, with plastic webbing to hold it in the vase without blowing away, we were unable to place the new flowers in the vase without vice grips to remove the plastic piece. Tomorrow...