Happy Monday!

How time is flying! I cannot believe it's mid-October! It's been unseasonably warm here in Indiana this month, and, unfortunately, no good rains to speak of. It's so dry and dusty here, but it is allowing the farmers time to get their crops in, so this is a good thing for them!


On Friday, we will celebrate Grandma Evelyn's 95th birthday. Our whole family is coming to visit her and have cake and ice cream for all of the residents of her assisted care home. I cannot imagine living 95 years, although I hope to! I am taking a vacation day this Friday, as I have to use up some before the end of the year. It's been weird this year with Phillip at his new job and not having any vacation days. Normally by this time of the year, I would have already used up all of my vacation days with him!


Our life is more back to normal since our break-in. Our door is fixed and I'm slowly (notice I said "I"...this barely affected Phillip...haha) getting more comfy in my own home again. It is just such a violation. I never was really afraid in our house before until this happened. Of course, I admit to being a little bit of a scaredy cat anyway!


Other than that, we are gearing up for Halloween around here. Just got part of Marissa's costume and waiting for the last item. If the outfit fits, she is going to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. I wish I could make her Halloween outfit, but I don't know a thing about sewing! (My Aunt Cookie is one of the best seamstresses I know, but I didn't inherit any of that!). I missed the cooking gene and the sewing gene!


Marissa continues to do well and amaze us each day with her talking. We are just so proud of her! She will say something and we will not really know what she said and then she will point at it and we will say "Ohhh of course, you said that...how silly of us!" She still carries around her pet cat everywhere she goes --- we don't go anywhere without "Yeah" (that's his name...we're not sure how this got started, but we think it might have started when she couldn't say much and that's all she could say, so the cat's name became "Yeah"). We have had some close calls with Yeah and have almost left him places, but he was thankfully found!


I think that is our update for this week! Hoping everyone is well and that the state of the economy is not getting everyone down. It is not a good time, for sure, but it was sure to happen around the Presidential Election time. At least the gas prices are down and that makes us feel better!



Kristi