A Day In My Life

Alex Working Is A Good Thing

Since Alex started working at the candy shop a month or two ago there have been many good things that have come out of this.  First, she gets a paycheck every other week which she really likes, they work around her schedule of school and softball, she works with friends from softball (and her high school coach), she gets to sample whatever she wants while working and the best part for me is this:

   

She brings me home goodies like this! 

A carmel apple drizzled in chocolate then dipped in pecans!  It taste just like a turtle on an apple.  She weighed this one last night after she made it and it weighs 2.3lbs!!  I have to say they do have the best apples ever and their chocolate is to die for.  They make everything there on site and it is always a hard decision on what to get.  They also have water ice and ice cream too.  They also carry every kind of candy out there going back to the candy we use to eat when we were kids.  Remember the candy cigarettes that when you blew in them smoke would come out?  They have them along with the golden nugget gum-remember that?  I love just walking around looking at all of the candy-it so reminds me of my childhood.

So for lunch today I will have a slice of the apple and try not to go back and have another slice.  But oh it is so good.  But we all know that the 2.3 lbs of apple, caramel, chocolate and pecans equals about 10 lbs on me.  So I better pace myself.  She doesn't work again until Saturday so I have until then :)

Busy Weekend.....

Boy what a busy weekend!  Starting off with Halloween-getting the costume ready for school, parties at school then coming home from school in a party overload mood that right there just poops me out thinking about it.  Once home from school it was time to get ready to head down to the next cul-de-sac over for a pre-halloween white trash party to get the festivities rolling.  This was a good time but somewhere in the  1 1/2 hours that we were there, Carter ate entirely too much and wanted to come home because he was tired and not feeling well.  I think that all of the party food at school then at the white trash party caught up with him  So we headed home and he took a short little rest before heading out to our cul-de-sac for our white trash party festivites.  He was so pooped out that I wasn't even sure he was going to want to go out and trick or treat.

 

But he did.  First it was picture time with all the kids.  Our group was a little small at the beginning because some of the kids were still at the Phillies parade but by the end they all showed up.

 

Then the dads headed out to take the kids while the moms stayed back and handed out candy, ate, drank and stayed by the fire.

 

When done, they all headed back to the cul-de-sac to check out their goodies.  Being that it was such a warm night it ended up being a pretty big gathering-fun times but I headed in around 10:30 knowing that I had to get up the next morning. 

Which brings me to Saturday.  Alex and I did the Heather Saler Walk for Lungevity over in Cherry Hill, NJ in honor of our next door neighbor Scott's sister.  She started the walk 5 years ago in hopes to raise money and awareness for Lung Cancer which she had.  She passed away in May of 2008 without every smoking a day in her life.  It makes you wonder why this effects those who it does.

  

We walked with a group of neighbors which made it that much more fun.

    

 

Not to mention the serenading to Sponge Bob!  Thanks Ying for that-definitely a depends moment!

Sunday brought us to Alex playing a few games down in Symrna, DE.   They played well, won all games and Alex had some good hits.  Ripped a small hole in her man tights sliding into 3rd - wanted to know if I could sew it up-I just laughed.  Here goes another $50 torward man tights! 

Finally got home around 4:00 and was ready to sit and relax.  Wasn't long after that that I was in bed and sound asleep.  Didn't even get through Extreme Makeover! 

Love to stay busy but a somepoint I finally give out. 

Here is to a new week, meetings at school, practices, club meetings and homework.  So with Monday it begins again.