Time's A Flyin'

I cannot believe that it is getting on towards the end of June already! And I never posted the picture from my lunch date with Mary and Anne, my two Piper school (elementary school) friends, so here it is. Obviously, you know which one is me (hehe). In the center we have Anne, and the one on the right is Mary. It went by all too quickly. Anne wants Mary to plan some sort of Girls (yes, I use the term VERY loosely) Weekend for the three of us to go somewhere and "really catch up" (Anne's words). I doubt that will ever happen, but who knows?

Just yesterday I received a response to an email I sent a VERY long time ago to the sister of one of our other Piper friends, Chris Airdo. The sister, Annette, actually gave me Chris' phone number, so I am going to give her a call today and shock the hell out of her. Oh, and yesterday I receivd an email from Frank Modica, another Piper schoolmate, telling me that he's had surgery at Northwestern and is recuperating at home with his parents in Berwyn. (He lives in Urbana, not far from where Our Miss Kel lived this year and will live again next January.)

Had a nice chat with Kate the other day when she was driving, and she made me seriously consider walking a marathon or half marathon. (Although last night I walked with the neighbor, Patty, and got a huge blister on my middle toe for my troubles....LOL)

The summer is progressing nicely. Tommy and Paytie are behaving REALLY WELL together, and Kelly has started at Lumes and things are going well! YAY! She made a nice piece of pocket change yesterday and came home with a smile! Maybe things will go smoothly after all!

I'm excited to see Julie next week, and we have Grandma Lois' birthday party to look forward to! HA! Grandma Marian will most likely be there as well. And speaking of GM, she is thrilled with her granite countertops installed yesterday in the kitchen. :)

Jean, Alene, and Kiersten visited me yesterday for a bit and Alene gave me the cute little book she illustrated, called, "Why We Love Mrs. G". Of course, it's very cute, and I really love it. Reminds me of something you did long ago, Miss KK! :) Payton had fun picking up Alene and trying to hug Kiersten, who would have none of that. She kept kicking him and pushing him away. Feisty little one, that.

Looks like rain today for Kelly's bus ride to Champaign. I'm sure she will be thrilled.....I'm glad she isn't driving herself there with the weather expected to be nasty....that would NOT have been a very calming experience for my poor old heart. YES, one of these days she will just hop in the car and drive there herself...IF I HAVE TO ALLOW IT.......

Wondering how Julie is coming on her garden plans? Hope that Kate is having a fun visit with Brent....oh, what am I thinking? OF COURSE she's having a fun visit. It's Young Love. Gag, gag, gag....okay, that's just me being silly. Of course I am happy that my children are in lurve. :) Yes, that's right. VERY HAPPY!

Oh, update on the Bathroom Saga: pretty much everything is finished except for installing the glass shower enclosure, which will take several weeks to fabricate. Then the fun of painting the room begins. Any volunteers? We were gong to ask Steve, the painter who has done several other rooms in the house to do it, but since his estimate for the work amounted to EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS, we are going to have to tackle the project ourselves! Can you imagine???? I guess he thinks we've begun growing a money tree in the back yard! I ONLY WISH, STEVE!!!!!!

Payton will be here soon, so I'd best get hopping.