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Other than the trees gettin' naked there's not much goin' on here in my little part of the universe. Mom has another UTI so we're battlin' that again. Otherwise... nada! I'd go out and rake except... it's windy like crazy - gusts up to 30 mph! If it keeps up the leaves might all BLOW away!

After our picnic, since we lost the tire park, we decided to head to the Marine Museum. Except a funny thing happened on the way to the Marine Museum...

Amanda had Jen and her parents, and Dennis and I over for dinner Saturday so we could all get to know each other a little better. This baby boy is really LUCKY because he's going to have 3 sets of grandparents! Jen's folks are looking forward to him as much as we are, and are just so happy that Amanda will be adopting him and they will have the opportunity to love him and watch him grow! Jen's mom and I are in the middle of planning a baby shower for Amanda. Jen has been shopping for gifts for Amanda! The whole thing is soooooo weird... but... it works! Everyone is happy! (isn't that all that really matters?)

Sunday I taught Sunday School... I'm really REALLY starting to have a good time with these kids. I only have 7 kids -- but 3 of them are ADHD, and one is very high functioning Autistic... so it's a challenging group! When they are all there it is VERY challenging. But we manage... and we even learn! I try to always have "something" for the kids each week. And I'm not much on providing snacks... there's enough food at church to break anyone's diet and ruin every child's teeth! But sometimes I have a pencil or an eraser or a pocket stone or a little cross ... today I had cross shaped silly bands! (who INVENTED silly bands??? I sure wish it was ME! somebody is makin' a fortune on these things!!!) And I had stickers! I always have stickers! So today Abbie asked if she could have TWO stickers ... (greedy greedy greedy!) ... I told her she most certainly could... IF ... if she would share the 2nd one to a friend! She agreed! Then they all wanted one to share to a friend! And of course I obliged! And then Dylan put his friend sticker on ME! Awwwwwwww.... my heart melted into a puddle right there on the floor!

Then I went upstairs for service, and it was wonderful of course. When it came time for the peace offering - Pastor ALWAYS tells us to find someone we don't know and introduce ourselves - so I was looking around for someone I don't know and all of a sudden I had a 34 inch SPIDERMAN hugging my legs saying "Peace be wif you Miss Mewwi!" I looked down to find one of my favorite little fellas! And right beside him his 12 year old brother - also wishing to "peace" me! Ohhhhhh goodness! I do LOVE my church family!

After church I drove down to Annapolis to have lunch with my Mathew. The restaurant was Mathew's choice this time, and we went to The Chop House (I figured it would feature CHOPS - but no...) which is a fairly fancy seafood house! It was grrrrrreat! I had a salmon/ceasar salad and some steamed oysters. Mmmm... Of course, if Mathew's there and it's on the menu we MUST try the crab dip! This is a given in ANY restaurant we visit. So we did. I ate a little bit of it - and it was very good -- but I let him have the bulk of it because I am reallllllly trying to be good! So we had a nice leisurely lunch together and then he went back to work, and I went and explored this CRAZY expensive shopping center that he works in. I don't know how ANY of these stores stay in business... but Annapolis is Rich Man's Land! All those homes on the river and the bay... with their yacht's! It's crazy! And they built these two high rise, high high HIGH end condominiums which are attached to this shopping center... now with the economy they are AUCTIONING them off and they are going for like HALF price! UNbelievable! Talk about a buyer's market! Anyway... I managed to find a couple of LITTLE cute items... stocking stuffers... so I can now say that I have officially purchased my first Christmas presents! ACK! I never do that before Thanksgiving! But I did! *shrug*

So, what did y'all do this weekend? Huh?