Animal whisperer

My second daughter has a gift or talent, if you will. She loves animals, big or small. She gets a thrill seeing horses when we take a ride in the car and heaven forbid, we ever go to the pound, she would leave with every animal they had. The other day, our nieghbors had a yard sale and the kids searched high and low for coins, so they could buy themselves a treasure. E came and sadly told me she just didn't even have a dollar to her name. I thought welcome to my world, honey, but said maybe she could have the coins by the t.v. I actually found a roll of nickels and gave it to her, watching her eyes light up at all the money I had found. :) She ran on down the street to barter for something 'really cool'.

Later, the door burst open and E came in with a bunch of 'equipment' that was labeled 'reptile cage'. The cage and heat lamp (yes, a heat lamp) were about 10 dollars but E marched up to my neighbor's friend (who was selling the cage), waved the roll of nickels at her and asked her if she knew how much money she had. The lady guessed $2? E said, that's right and it's all yours! My neighbor's son, who is S's age grabbed the light and E grabbed the cage and before the lady could say anything, they left with their loot. By the way, my neighbor was in the background watching this and was laughing her head off.

After watching E tote this glass cage around the house, looking for suitable places to stash it, I told her to go put it outside before I lost it. She looked at me and said "How could you lose it? I'm carrying it." Just take it outside, please! Within 10 minutes (seriously) she had found TWO garden snakes, 3 grasshoppers and a praying mantis. She came in and asked what else snakes eat. I was on the computer and googled it. Don't we live in an amazing time? Don't know the answer? Google it!
Anyway, we found out the snakes can eat earth worms or baby mice, which are found at any pet store! I said "Earthworms are your only bet, cause you can bet I am not going to the store to buy mice!!"

Yesterday morning, the dog was going crazy outside, so I went to see what Patches was so worried about. There was a mouse in one of our window wells. When the kids got home from school, I was on the phone with my husband, telling him about the mouse. E shot outside, put gloves on and caught the thing before I could even tell her not to touch it. She was going to kill it, put it in the freezer then feed it to the snakes. I opted for no on this one and told her to put the yucky mouse into the snake cage. Eww...snakes and mice...What am I doing?? E asked me what was wrong with the mouse, it was so cute!! All I could do was shiver.

huh?

I went to the Post Office today to mail out my chocolate letters and went inside, but couldn't see a place to just drop them off. Since I had alot of letters (about 300), I thought well I will just wait in line and hand them off to the Mailperson. There was only a couple people ahead of me and I stood in line for about 10 minutes. So it's my turn and I step up to the counter to hand him the box of letters. The Mailman says to me, "Next time, Don't be rude, put your letters on the counter and you can just go." I thought "huh?", was something I did rude? I'm pretty sure I wasn't making weird faces as I stood in line...but maybe I was. I am still thinking, huh?

One great and busy week!

This was probably one of the busiest weeks I have had since school started. We found out my husband's niece was getting married, so I decided to make her a t.v. quilt. I think I made this in about a week and 1/2, sewing nonstop. It was fun to have a project again after not doing much of anything during the summer. I happened to have her colors in some leftover fabric on my sewing table. I hope she likes it and doesn't look at it too close! :)
Anyway, Monday, we got invited to K's friend's house for a BBQ, then Wednesday was the wedding dinner, Thursday was the wedding in Bountiful (which was fun for us since that is where Big S and I were married almost 14 years ago, can you believe that?). Thursday night was the reception and my sister-in-law hosted the reception in her back yard, it was really beautiful. Friday I made 3 different kinds of cheesecakes for a baby shower and went to Taste of Home's cooking show at the Dee Events Center with a friend, and Saturday, I made a baby blanket for my cousin's baby shower (I just sewed a 3 inch ribbon around a yard and half of fleece, again I hope she doesn't look at it too close...I have never done that before and thought I could just wing it but....oh well, it was cute anyway. Well, until her mom pulled out a beautiful sailboat quilt!) Then it was on to my cousin's baby shower and a few hours later, I went to a suprise baby shower for my friend, Jen.
To top it off, the chocolate season is starting and I have about 250 letters to send out. I had to buy a new Word program because my other program quit working. I also have to teach the lesson in my ward next Sunday and just started preparing it.
I am grateful for this week cause I don't have anything to do but get my chocolate business going again.

Whew, just looking at my post makes me tired. But it has been a fun week, I just love weddings. It makes me want to get married all over again. Girls these days are so creative with their weddings.