Busy Day, Movie Night

Super busy day today; I was up by 6 and out of the house before 8! I had two Thanksgiving plays to attend; one as the teacher at preschool, the other as a parent at the elementary school. After the play, Ed and I went home and had lunch together, something which rarely happens! He went back to work, and I went to the gym to walk on the treadmill. Then the girls came home from school. They had an early dismissal because their Thanksgiving break started today. We have parent/teacher conferences with their teachers next week.

Just-Keep-Swimming

I thought it would be fun to watch a movie, so I tried to rent “Finding Dory” from Redbox. I searched online and finally found a DVD in a Des Plaines Redbox and reserved it. But when I got there, the box had an “error” and I didn’t get the DVD. That’s never happened before! I think the online inventory hadn’t caught up to real life inventory. So I drove to the Mount Prospect library and rented three movies, hoping that we could decide on one to watch tonight. I didn’t want to make our usual pizza for movie night, since we have eaten a lot of pizza in the past couple of weeks. I made tacos instead. (You can’t go wrong with tacos!)

So, which movie did we watch? An oldie but goodie: The Karate Kid!

What did you do on this Friday night?

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It Doesn’t Always Work Out

I had this great idea tonight. I wanted to see the moon when it rose. It’s still close to being a full, “supermoon,” so I checked the paper to see what time moonrise would be today: 5:08 pm. I threw some pork chops and potatoes in the oven, got the girls to put on their shoes, and we headed for the park to see the moon.

Well, it turns out with all the trees we have, even at the park we couldn’t see the moonrise. We waited for about 20 minutes. The weather was gorgeous for a November evening; the sky was clear and the temperature was in the 50’s. The girls and I sat on the swings and talked. Before the moon could peek over the tops of the trees, we had to go home. I didn’t want my pork chops and potatoes to burn, plus I had to get Lily to a choir rehearsal.

Lily and I saw the full moon as we drove to her rehearsal, and it was beautiful.

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