Another Wednesday - another week flying by.

Got a phone call from Sharon last week asking if we'd go to Ida's Open House on Tuesday night. Her schedule is so busy. I don't know how she manages to do all she does, but she does. Dave was away so he couldn't help. Lee had an Open House Tuesday also. She needed to go to his to school see if there was any information she needed to know that she'd missed. There was, so that was good she went.

An aside: Charlie is learning responsibility big time and he has taken it very seriously. He's been responsible for Ida when there's no one else around. We had chili for supper last night with them. He served us, cleaned up and in all ways seemed to be very responsible. What a good thing to see - kids growing up and learning respect, responsibility. The Open House was fun. It brought back memories for me, of course. Ones when I was the parent. Ones when I was the teacher. Ida seems to have lots of friends, teachers who knew her name. The music teacher let her play the zylophone, while she accompanied her on the piano. Cute enuf for a picture!

Got a phone call from a friend asking me if our luncheon date, with a group of friends, is still on for tomorrow. Wow. It's Thursday tomorrow... that means I need to produce a low-cal, flavorful dessert for them. I know just what to do. I have all the ingredients. That'll be my project this afternoon.

Paul is busy starting work on the upstairs. He bought a door for the attic space over the garage, so we can move a lot of the "clutter" there. He's produced a floorplan which looks really good. He says he's taking it easy and not pushing himself. Good. He tends (I can see everyone nodding their heads in agreement) to work hard and overdo. Of course, before Christmas last year was a stressful time for him/us getting ready for guests. And having a hernia operation.

He's a dear. He was overdue (note the spelling. Ha.) for some downtime. He's enjoying the hottub every day. Another good.