Friday in Lincoln.

This morning at 2am the fire engines came blaring their horns and sirens along with the rescue truck.  It appears that the young man across the street was having heart trouble again.  That is too bad because he is very young to be having heart trouble but we must remember that he is around 300-400 pounds weight and that will have bearing on his problem for sure.

This morning we went to Walmart to get the car greased and oil changed.  The Walmart we went to is out on route 2 – and is east of here but again my direction finder is not too good and it surely seemed that we were traveling west when in fact we were going east.  I suppose if I lived here I would be able to better get my directions straight.

Lyla decided to go to school today rather than stay with us here at home.  She was saying that they had new uniforms at the pre-school and she wanted to go today to try them on.  We have no idea what she is talking about but I guess we will find out when she comes home.  Jacob left for school at 6.30am, Sara left about 8am, I left with the boys around 7.40am and Bill had the house all to himself for a short period of time.

Oliver told me, I love you more than the black that is behind the stars in the sky.  Guess he loves me a lot.  He gave me a drawing of a big heart.  He really is a sweet little boy.  Last night he crawled into bed and even though we carried him into his own bed, he came back in after a while and slept there the rest of the night.

Tonight was birthday celebration night.  We had a pork loin dinner with glazed carrots and a salad.  Then we had birthday cake and candles and ice cream.  We then gathered in the living room and opened presents.  We gave clothes to the kids and no toys at the request of Sara.  After the presents we piled into the car and off we went to “Lost in Fun” which is an amusement place for kids.  There were kids running to, jumping from and in, and falling off or over in every direction.   The noise was deafening.  Oliver and I played air hockey and he is totally vicious at this game.  He beat me hands down.  We put money in the basketball game machine and my high score was 42.  Ethan said he could beat that so I put money in it and he got 8 points.  So much for being Macho….but when you are 10 nothing is impossible.

I am totally tired tonight.  I managed to squeeze in a visit to the quilt shop and to the bead shop.  How cool is that?  The quilt shop has had to put its “throw out table” inside the store due to the complaint by the hairdresser who just moved in.  She moved into the same area that used to house Weight Watchers.  I thought I would go to WW to see what kinds of things they have these days but I was disappointed.  The Scrapbooking place has branched out to now include swanky looking purses and shoulder bags.  I find it hard to connect scrapbooking with shoulder bags and glitzy purses……but that is what they have now.

Our time here is running out.  Jacob asked us to be at his graduation when he gets his fancy  hood and gown outfit for his PhD.  It is to be on December 9 – one day before Ethan’s birthday.  I had not planned to come back to Nebraska till next spring – not crazy about being here in a snowstorm.  Not crazy about being anywhere in a snowstorm.