Thanksgiving

This year we tried something new for Thanksgiving - we went to JP's cousin's house. What a joy it was not to have to cook & plan! We can't wait for next year. I wonder if they'll do Christmas, too. . .

New Wimpy Kid

Tonite we went to B&N for the release party of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth." GP had a good time. The rest of us browsed and each found several hundred dollars of books that would be nice to read.

When we left the store we were greeted by a full on snow storm. I had to clean the windows of the van with my hands - no scraper in the car yet - it was 70 degrees last weekend!

Choir Concert

CP had his first choir concert this week. The pic is a bit blurry from the phone cam, but you can pick out our boy - he's the tall kid in the back row just right of center.

Robotron!

I've been playing Robotron on the Dig Dug machine, but the monitor is arranged vertically and robotron is a horizontal-format game, so the screen comes out fairly small. Too small for such a legendary game.

Last Sunday it was too nice to lay around and watch TV and I was burned out on my school project, so I found a piece of scrap plastic and made a new control panel for Pole Position. The kids were the only ones that played it, and I think we'll get more play time out of the joystick control setup.

I recycled JRO's Chinese Hero control panel artwork, joysticks, and buttons. What a game! My hands hurt from cranking on the sticks.

Barber Mom

JP got tired of shelling out $15 for bad haircuts, so she took matters into her own hands and gave GP a nice haircut with the clippers. The cat & dog were very interested in the whole thing.

Halloween

This year the CP went as the Terminator, and GP was Jason, and I was wishing I had taken a hat with me when we went trick or treating. It was cold and breezy.