All was quiet... til Friday.
This week has gone by in a blur. This week I made "Special Spaghetti" (homemade sauce) on my own, instead of using Ivy and Addie's cafe. While I made dinner, Ivy played "vacation at the beach" in the living room with a sunhat and blanket. We had our Monday Reading Party, featuring Ivy reading a graphic-novel chapter book based on the game Minecraft. I really do not care for that book, but on our reading parties we take turns reading books, so I picked a Beatrix Potter book that I like. Our biggest activity was on Friday: Crystal Digging. We visited the Salt Plains in Jet, Oklahoma to try our luck... the only lucky ones were the teens, but everyone had a good time overall. I felt lucky finding exactly 4 shovels at $8 a piece at the Dollar General near my office - they didn't have any hand shovels, but as they say, "You win some, you lose some." I made sure to pack the essentials the night before, knowing I would come up with more...