I think this has been the busiest October in the past 20 years! Mother and I have the usual standing appointments at the salon. We go to exercise three mornings a week, shop for groceries at least twice a week, visit the library, the bank, and the post office. We’re normally pretty busy, and that doesn’t take into account the office work I do.
October is one of the busiest birthday months for my family. Dear Husband and I both have birthdays in October, as well as one of my sisters, his brother, and a slew of nieces and nephews.
We traveled to Indiana to see one of my nieces compete in Marching Band. Elegante Mother and I watched one of her great grandsons act a role in a “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” We visited the Farmer’s Market, and ate out five or six times. We traveled to the far North side of Chicago to have dinner with one of my nieces and her husband last night.
We’ve shopped, and gardened. I shared my quilts with the ladies of My-Sister-The-Nurse’s church, and the Empty Nester’s from EM’s church came for their monthly visit. We visited with a church member who is going to machine quilt four quilts that we’ve made for the church bazaar.
We’ve enjoyed amazingly warm weather for most of the month and we’re hoping it lasts through tomorrow night, when kids will be out celebrating Halloween. We don’t expect to have visitors, but we’re prepared, just in case they should come. Our drive is too long, and too dark to make it profitable for kids to trick or treat at our house, but a lot of visitors would bring this month to an appropriate end.
I enjoyed everything we did, but I could use one day of calm a week. It would be nice to be able to build up reserves so that I could go full tilt the rest of the week. Oddly, Tuesday seems to be the only candidate at the moment, and it looks like it could be swallowed up, too!
We’re just busy people!