Well, summer is winding down. This is the final week of summer programs at the library, and it is going to be a busy one. Along with our usual story hours and art programs, we also had a puppet show on Monday, and we have a art day at the park Wednesday afternoon and night. This means a 40+ hour week for me. I am probably going to be pretty tired by the weekend.
But it is great seeing the kids enjoy all of the activities we put on. They had a great time at the puppet show on Monday night (and I must say it cracked me up a bit too). We served ice cream after the puppet show, then, to reward the kids for all of their hard work reading throughout June and July.
On Wednesday, South Dakota is having "The Great Day of Play" for kids. Here in Yankton, there are free swim times at the pool, and the library will have crafts in the shelter house at Memorial Park. I get to help the kids make masks. Then when we run out of masks, we will switch and make sand paintings, and if we run out of sand painting supplies too, we will start doing worm painting (not with real worms, of course).
It looks to be a busy rest of the week that will probably leave me looking for a nice place to sit down and relax for the weekend! Until next time,
Erica
Oh and by the way, if you are wondering how my car turned out, we had an estimate done on the damage from the hail and they estimated $2000 in damages. Yikes! Dad is thinking maybe we won't fix it. He was planning on giving that car to my sister for a school car this next year anyway, and it won't hurt her to drive it like that! -- It may not hurt her, but I am sure she will make a pretty big fuss about it.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Heading home for the weekend
Well, Mom and Dad are missing me again :). Since I went to Omaha last weekend, they haven't seen me in two weeks, and they are bugging me to come home again. I need to go home and swap cars anyway. I am leaving my car so we can have an estimate done on the hail damage from last week. That means I get to drive my mom's Durango for a week. (I'm not too disappointed.)
It will be nice to go home this weekend, though. Mom and Dad finally go the pool up so I plan on relaxing in there for most of Saturday. Also, some of their friends and their families are pulling their campers out to our house. They normally park them in a little circle on a big patch of grass across from our house. Dad has a firepit set up over there with a grate for cooking on, and one of his friends put in a bunch of electrical outlets. We kind of have our own little campground. So, I suppose I will have to have a couple smores Saturday night too. I am hoping that I can talk Dad into getting our horse Sugar out too, so I can do a little riding. It's been so long since I've been able to ride, and I think it would be really fun to do this weekend. I am sure all of my parents' friends' kids would enjoy it too.
Well, hopefully my weekend is as good as it sounds like it will be! Until next time,
Erica
It will be nice to go home this weekend, though. Mom and Dad finally go the pool up so I plan on relaxing in there for most of Saturday. Also, some of their friends and their families are pulling their campers out to our house. They normally park them in a little circle on a big patch of grass across from our house. Dad has a firepit set up over there with a grate for cooking on, and one of his friends put in a bunch of electrical outlets. We kind of have our own little campground. So, I suppose I will have to have a couple smores Saturday night too. I am hoping that I can talk Dad into getting our horse Sugar out too, so I can do a little riding. It's been so long since I've been able to ride, and I think it would be really fun to do this weekend. I am sure all of my parents' friends' kids would enjoy it too.
Well, hopefully my weekend is as good as it sounds like it will be! Until next time,
Erica
Thursday, July 9, 2009
My sisters' visit... One they'll never forget
Two of my younger sisters came to visit this on Tuesday. They are staying till Friday. Tuesday night we had a nice little night. We ate supper together and I showed them around Yankton. Wednesday, they came to the library so my youngest sister, Megan, could participate in our Take Part in Art program. Then they spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach with my roommates.
Last night I took them out for pizza at Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut always has those games sitting on the tables, so while we waited, my sisters, my roommates, and I, we played "What's Yours Like." It was a funny game. Everyone got to see the word except one person for example, the word "signature." Then everyone would get a chance to describe their signature to the person who didn't see the word. The point is to give a description that will not allow that person to guess the word. Megan didn't really understand this and kept giving the words away. For example, for the word signature, her description was, "Mine is my name."
The rest of the night we just hung around the apartment and played Uno. This morning, we were woken up by some loud pounding noises. I thought it was probably just the boys in the apartment above us being loud. But the longer it went on, the more I started to realize that it wasn't them. I got up and looked out the window and it was hailing! I woke my sisters up and we turned on the news. Then before it the sirens started going off. In my rush to get downstairs, I ran into my little coffee table and cut my knee open. Then my roommate, Ashley, called to inform me that those were only severe weather sirens and we didn't need to go downstairs yet. So I cleaned up my knee and the storm eventually passed. Both my sister and I ended up with a bunch of little dents all over our cars, but from what I have heard, it was far worse in other parts of town, so we are pretty lucky.
With all of the action we've had since my sisters arrived, I think that this will become a visit to Yankton they will never forget!
Until Next Time,
Erica
Last night I took them out for pizza at Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut always has those games sitting on the tables, so while we waited, my sisters, my roommates, and I, we played "What's Yours Like." It was a funny game. Everyone got to see the word except one person for example, the word "signature." Then everyone would get a chance to describe their signature to the person who didn't see the word. The point is to give a description that will not allow that person to guess the word. Megan didn't really understand this and kept giving the words away. For example, for the word signature, her description was, "Mine is my name."
The rest of the night we just hung around the apartment and played Uno. This morning, we were woken up by some loud pounding noises. I thought it was probably just the boys in the apartment above us being loud. But the longer it went on, the more I started to realize that it wasn't them. I got up and looked out the window and it was hailing! I woke my sisters up and we turned on the news. Then before it the sirens started going off. In my rush to get downstairs, I ran into my little coffee table and cut my knee open. Then my roommate, Ashley, called to inform me that those were only severe weather sirens and we didn't need to go downstairs yet. So I cleaned up my knee and the storm eventually passed. Both my sister and I ended up with a bunch of little dents all over our cars, but from what I have heard, it was far worse in other parts of town, so we are pretty lucky.
With all of the action we've had since my sisters arrived, I think that this will become a visit to Yankton they will never forget!
Until Next Time,
Erica
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