It's all preparation (day 9)

We just keep making ourselves busier and busier, but I think it's preparation for having kids when we will be running after them all of the time!

Band last week was a lot of fun. There's a new director this year and he's got a lot of energy! We'll have two concerts this semester and some of the music is pretty challenging. It's great to be playing regularly again. :)

This past weekend my mom came up. We told her she was welcome to come as long as she brought work clothes. ;) I'm not sure she's going to be coming up again anytime soon. :) :) :) Friday night we went to Fritanga, the Nicaraguan restuarant close to us. It was very yummy--the fried plantains were excellent! Saturday we put Mom to work...first the paneling, then pulling the carpet out of the stairwell (that didn't go over so well), then removing tile in the bathroom. I was in the stairwell at that point, but apparently she had a pretty good time tearing off the tile. Mark said he kept hearing her laughing. It is an awful lot of fun to do demolition. We also found a new treasure, but I won't spoil the surprise--I'll take a picture and post it. Then you can bid for it. ;) We also found lots more things that caused all 3 of us to say "that's interesting..." I took one picture before the camera batteries died, so hopefully I can get over there soon and show some updates. It's looking worse and worse every day. And that makes me happy. :) I know it will get much worse before it gets better.