I know I don't have any cute pictures of the kiddos to go with this post or even anything great to say, but just thought I would add in a couple of small things that have made me happy......
First, I'm very happy that we were able to buy three new windows last year as well as put more insulation into the attic. It is now November and I have yet to turn on our furnace other than a quick test Chris did to make sure it was working. The coldest our house has got was 66 degrees which after starting a fire first thing in the morning, quickly warmed up to 70 degrees. I know it will have to be turned on this week with lows in the 20s but hey we made it to Nov!
Second, just wanted to comment on how sweet my boys were yesterday. I made a trip out to Chesterfield to go to Trader Joe's then ran over to Faust Park to pick up the kids tickets to the candy cane hunt. While there I let the boys play on the park for awhile. It was kind of crowded with lots of kids their ages but the boys decided to only play with each other and they were so well behaved that a momma couldn't be prouder! Then on the car ride home, Andrew had to make sure that he was sitting by Joey and they talked and laughed all the way home! I love moments like that!
Lastly, has to do with the Halloween candy. Every year we let the kids put out all their Halloween candy the night of Halloween so the "Halloween fairy" can come and pick it up and leaves each of them a small gift. Usually I always give the candy to the boys I work with or to Chris' work but this year I found a website that lists all the different dentist offices that will buy back Halloween candy for $1 lb and send it over seas to the troops. I knew I wasn't going to get much money for the candy because it was only about 3-4lbs of it but I liked that it was going to some important people who could really use some Halloween cheer. Unfortunately I couldn't have my kids see that we were giving it to them because it would ruin the Halloween fairy but maybe in a few years when they figure out the truth this would be a good place for it to go. Anyway, I brought my bag of candy into the dentist's office, with Joey in tow (it was in a brown bag so he couldn't see the candy). The receptionist asked if I knew how much the candy weighed and I told her I didn't know so she took the bag back to the dentist to see what she thought. Then she came back and told me the dentist said she would give me $15 for it! Wow, that was way more than I thought we would get for it, maybe because we had a lot of the "good candy" in the bag :)
So thats my thoughts for the day!
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