Hello, Friday!

Fall is stuck somewhere between itself and summer, the weather can't decide what it wants to be today...but it's definitely anti-hoody. I was so jealous when I read the statuses of snowfall from some of my fellow Facebookers. This year, I'm learning that the main reason I love this time of year has a lot to do with what the temperature gauge reads. I look thru my windshield at the gorgeous colors of the seemingly autumn scene all around me, but then I step outside my car into a humid summer atmosphere. What the heck? I'm still sleeping with the A/C on for cryin' out loud! Oh, but the trees are magnificent this year....the colors are positively brilliant. I'm hoping to get to run the kids up to the Runestone for some pictures tomorrow before all the colors fade and fall away for the year. I'll just look at the pictures and pretend there's a chill in the air!

The kids played their second home game of the season last nite and holy smokes, the boys game was a nail biter!!!!! How I love, love, LOVE basketball....especially the games that have you eating your fingers and screaming at refs. I'm pretty sure I make a complete spectacle of myself....I just don't care. The girls and boys teams both won and I couldn't have been prouder for them. They're finding their groove and moving in it. Taylor played well and my poor lowly freshman was forced to support his team from the bench. He wasn't impressed in the least but it's hard to not be happy about the first win of the season.

They play again tonite and I'm struggling between being the loud mouthed mom in the stands and being the mom who makes sure there are groceries and toilet paper in her house. It's been three weeks since my last Walmart exchange and we'll be using newspaper for toilet paper soon. We're even out of Ramen noodles at this point. Josh is threatening to strike or worse, go grocery shopping himself. If that happens, we'll be broke and the cabinets will be full of Wolf Brand Chili, Little Debbie's, and Oreos, I'll be washin' clothes with Dawn dish soap, and we'll still not have any toilet paper.