Nothin Much New in November.....

Oh, maybe that isn't entirely true....LOL.....but it was a good title, right?

Aimee and Matt had their floors refinished in the three bedrooms, and also some new trimwork done in the bedrooms - crown molding looks lovely, and the new bedroom door on "Junior Mint"'s bedroom is gorgeous! Hopefully yesterday the cleaning people arrived and helped make the house a bit more spic n span from all of the work being done over the last week. Nothing like having your bed in the livingroom to cause a little chaos!

Tomorrow is Kate and Brent's Open House - should be fun - Kate spent the day yesterday shopping and cooking, so I expect something totally yummilicious.

I am going out on a limb here and saying I sat here just now looking at the calendar, and November 14th popped out to me as a good day for Junior Mint to make and appearance. What do you think? Three months before Payton's birthday....sounds like an auspicious date. :)

We are all kind of looking forward to having Thanksgiving this year at Brian and Cindy's house. Except for the fact that Blingdaddy and Aimee can't spend much time there because of dog dander, it should be a nice day. When is the cure for animal allergies going to be perfected?????

Kelly has had the lovely experience of another parent complaining about her - some fourth grader told her mom that it was too loud during tuning and Mommy complained to the music teacher, who passed along the info to Kelly's Mentor, Eli, who passed along the info to her....how ridiculous. I would love to trot around Orland slapping a few of the cowardly parents living there who can't seem to be able to communicate directly with someone they are unhappy with. Hopefully Brent will not have any such problems, since parents are paying him directly! LOL (Not that I want any parents to have a problem with you, Brent....)

Blingdaddy started up with chemo on Wednesday. So far, so good. He made the nurses schedule out the rest of his treatments for the rest of the year, since we are now at the point where all of the out of pocket requirement has been met and we don't have to pay ONE CENT for anything the rest of the year!!! It was pretty cool the other day when I drove up to the window at Walgreen's and received four of Blingdaddy's prescriptions FOR FREE!!!! And it's nice to know that the $30,000 worth of chemo the next month and a half will also require no payments from our checkbook.

Let's see....Thanksgiving will be upon us very soon - also Aunt Corinne's 50th birthday. If anyone remembers, it would be good to send her a card. :)

Oh, I don't believe I commented on Tom's first Jazz Band concert - Kelly couldn't be there since there was a concert in Orland that night that she had to attend, but Kate came along with Blingdaddy and me, and we had a fun night listening to the kids and seeing them in all of their costumes. Tom was the color Purple, and I made him some spiffy purple and black plaid pajama pants to wear with a purple shirt and purple hat. His group sounded very good, and truly it is an honor that he was picked to be in the top Jazz Band at his school as a sophomore. Go, Tom!

We were very sorry not to have been able to get to Kate's concert for the CCC the week before, but are looking forward to the Christmas one......