Busy Saturday
by Embrace Country Life on 04/21/12Unfortunately, we didn't get to spend too much time in the country today. After our 6:45 am podcast we ate our farm fresh eggs and drank our coffee and hit the road running.
As predicted, the girls didn't wake up until 8:00. The weather was dreary today so only Julia had the ambition to go outside and ride her bike. She taught herself how to ride a two-wheeler and since we only have a small area of black-top, she has been mountain bike riding since she started. She was outside for about 45 minutes when she came in with a skinned knee. Her sisters took care of her since I was in the shower. Several band-aids later and she was outside again.
Cliff headed to the dome for soccer and the rest of us followed later. The dome is an indoor field and as much as it is convenient in the winter to be indoors, I am so ready to start watching the girls in the fresh air outside. Cliff coaches Sarah's team and is the assistant coach of Alicia's. Today, he will spend seven hours in the dome! Julia and I watched one of each girls' games and then we headed out.
Before we reached home, we made a stop at the fabric store. After reading the article about plastic in our food under the Healthy Living Links on this website, I purchased six glass water bottles this morning. I am still not confident about the glass and the girls using them but my idea is to sew a fabric sheath with lots of padding for them...hopefully that may stop any from breaking. Julia helped me pick out a bright fabric, breast cancer ribbon fabric, and lacrosse girl fabric. We will give it a whirl and see how the turn out. I am thinking I will also be able to embroider them. I purchased the breast cancer ribbon fabric because if I like the way the sheaths turn out, I could sell them at Relay for Life and give the profit to the team. We will see.
When we arrived home, we decided to make pizza for dinner. I will be the first to admit how easy it is to pop in a frozen pizza, wait ten minutes and ta da...dinner is served. However, since we started this website, I've been reading the boxes food comes in~SCARY! I have NO idea what more than half of the ingredients are!
Anyway, it was good one-on-one time with Julia who sometimes gets slighted with her big sisters involved in so many activities. I had her roll out the dough, spread the sauce and cheese. I convinced her to put some black olives on half! Yum. It smells so good in the oven now! We will make a salad next and then wait patiently for the rest of our family to come home.
Tonight will be an abnormal "barn chore" night. Cliff will be coming home and have just enough time to change into his suit and head to the High School Junior Prom. The girls will be feeding their animals without him tonight. I am sure they will have wonderful stories when they come in!!!
Hope everyone had a great Saturday~they really do go fast!
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