Nonspecific Monday

I can't believe it's Christmas Monday! I think I'm finally gettin' coming down with something. I'll keep the Kleenex handy I guess...

Anyone notice the Christmas music on the radio lately!!??!!! As predicted last year, Maddy was driving when she noticed it and almost drove off the road in her excitement. Then had to drive VERY carefully the rest of the way home because a policeman noticed her antics and followed her...

I made 3 scarves over the weekend that I found on Pinterest. Super easy and super cute. Meri was in a bum-my mood this morning so I let her wear the black & white one to school. She's happy now. If you're on Pinterest, look me up! I'm Val Mc. Tutorials: Scarf 1, Scarf 2, Scarf 3.
This is not the one that I made, but similar. Meri took it to school so I didn't get a picture. The directions are all in German, but the pictures make it easy to understand.
Meri tested for her Black Belt yesterday and wasn't able to break her 2nd board. So she's not going to advance for now. The other student passed, we think... So she'll probably be on her own with her form until January when she can test again. She was pretty upset but was greatly relieved when I told her about January.Robb led the Veteran's into the middle school program on Friday morning with his bagpipes. After a false start and due to the cold weather, the pipes weren't cooperating so he had to stop a few times during the procession and adjust the drones. The last verse of Scotland The Brave sounded awesome!!! He figured he didn't want to disrespect our nations heroes with If You Think I'm Sexy... He'll save that for another gig.Maddy's high school play was this weekend and we saw it on Friday night. She was a stage manager so we didn't see her until the end when she was autographing middle school kids programs. Middle school kids get extra credit for certain classes if they attend high school events. I had Maddy autograph my hand with her permanent magic marker and it took several hand washings to get it out by Sunday morning...

Some of you know this already.... but I'm going to be a grandmother this spring! I guess the gray hairs my son gave me when he turned 16 was to prepare me to look the part for this next chapter in my life. I've been practicing my famous baby football hold with any baby I can get my hands on... Some mothers are avoiding me now.

On Saturday night, I went on a mini road trip with a great friend that I so rarely see anymore since she moved to the next town 6 miles away. We just went to Pier 1 Imports and Lowes, but it might as well have been a Thelma & Louise vacation. We almost died a few times on the highway from our laughing. I haven't laughed so hard in years! We were attacked by a cat that we thought had a plastic bag over it's head, but apparently it was a chips bag and it was eating dinner... Well.. We cut down on litter anyway, if not saving the angry cat's life.

Maddy was feeling ill on Sunday night so instead of going to the cross country end of season awards program, we watched The Blues Brothers on Netflix, her, Robb & I. It was a blast! My toe is still tapping. Ah John Belushi... We miss you.

Well... Back to the old grind of work. Spending my lunch hour with a friend and may get more sewing done tonight.

How was your weekend?