Birthday Party and Beyond...

I am quite a bit behind in posting the blatherings of my existence!

Flying by the seat of my pants, I got a roller skating birthday party planned for a certain 8-year-old granddaughter who had a good time. Robin has an advantage over her brother in that her birthday occurs in the summer. Ryan's occurs a week or so before Thanksgiving when it's cold outside and school schedules limit who can be there, etc. :(

Avon, IN, has a new roller skating rink. Just two days before the proposed party date, I was able to reserve the "party room" and get some local friends invited. (They had been pre-invited, but things were so up-in-the-air that I couldn't cite chapter and verse about what was going to happen.) Thankfully, everyone who had been invited showed up! One of Robin's best friends from Muncie was driven down by her mother as a surprise. A couple of friends from Robin's former Daisy Girl Scout troop in Plainfield showed up. Stepsister Wednesday got a release from her father's visitation for the day, and the two neighbor kids (my house) were able to come. Daddy came from Muncie. Stepmom Kendra and her mother came from Zion, IL. Of course, Grandma Judy and Grandpa Phil came with glorious birthday cakes to die for. To make a long story short, Robin had a very nice birthday party.

I took the children to Plainfield's Splash Island yesterday afternoon--the last weekday before school started here. Megan went to the library to work on some genealogy stuff. The kids swim like fish!! They were both on a swim team in Muncie. Still, because of their ages, we all had to wear wrist bands that said "Within arm's reach". Ha! Ever try to be within arm's reach of children who go in two different directions and are skilled enough to go down slides into the deep end? Oh...and have I mentioned how lovely I look? I wear a bathing suit, but have a cover-up over that, and a do-rag over my head. Am I being modest? Well...sort of. But I also take medicine that says I will be "sensitive" to sun...and don't like having a sunburned scalp due to really thin hair. And you know what? I saw very FEW people, men and women alike, who looked good in what THEY were wearing! Besides, after a certain age (mine) the rest of us become invisible. No one cares about old people. Seriously!

Tomorrow, in spite of heat, we are going cemetery hopping in Putnam County. It's on Megan's to-do list while she is here in Indiana. (She has adopted a genealogy website for Putnam County and needs some pictures or something.) We'll do the best we can...

When Meg returns to California and the children go to their new home in Zion, IL, I will fall into a dead heap. It's feast or famine here. Either I am busy beyond belief or suffering from loneliness. I have never been lonely in my life...until these last 11 months. God provides and I keep trying!

Past bedtime for me...and I just discovered that Robin is still awake. Ugh!