Wow It’s Getting Cold
We are so bummed to be preparing for winter. Summer seemed to go so fast and it’s hard to believe it’s over. School has been in full swing for over a month now and we are nice and settled in to our new routine. Emma is still enjoying kindergarten and her reading is really progressing. She has long since given up on the "easy readers" and is reading all kinds of interesting books. Needless to say, the library card is getting a lot of use. Emma even has her own card now and loves to scan the books out at the self checkout.
So, winterizing is in full swing. We are putting away lawn furniture, insulating hose bibs etc. Today we will be spending part of the day at mom’s doing some winterizing there too and then will stay for dinner.
Emma has decided that she wants to be Darth Vader for Halloween. We went online and found a good deal on a Darth Vader costume for kids at Amazon.com and it arrived yesterday. Emma didn’t have school yesterday (teacher workshop day) so she stayed home with Aunt Jean and anxiously awaited the costume delivery. It finally came around 4:00 and Emma instantly put it on. We spent a lot of time last night playing Star Wars at our house, that’s for sure. Emma’s friend Jena is going to be a cheerleader for Halloween so when Emma went down to show Jena her costume, they both ran around in their costumes. At one point Emma traded her light saber for the pom pom’s and became the evil Darth Vader Cheerleader (and the pom poms lit up too). We all had a good laugh.
Work is going well for Katie and I. Of course we are keeping our eye on the economic issues going on which has caused us to increase our saving even more than we were before. You just never know what is coming. The last couple weeks in the stock market have been amazing and we’ve certainly seen our investments shrink. The good news is that we have a long way to go until we hit retirement and have lots of time to make it up. We are actually kind of excited at how cheap some of the stocks out there have gotten. You can bet we’ll be buying a bit as the bottom seems to form.