Hmmm...What's Marvelous Today?

It's 9.12 p.m. Kids are in bed and Steve is working on some lab expense stuff. Receipts from the past 2 months. Good thing he's married to somebody who files things. I think we're going to get a new rental van this week. Enterprise wants to see the van before they will give Steve a receipt. They will renew the rental without seeing the van, but for the receipt that Steve needs to fax back to the lab, he needs to take it in. So he asked Enterprise to just have a new one ready for us. We should hear about it tomorrow. I need to check with the ferry company to make sure that it won't be a problem if we switch vans. They asked for our registration when we booked. I should check before we get the new van.

I tried to upload some pictures of Julie today, but was unsuccessful. She is getting more and more mobile every day. Her favorite things to grab are, of course, Caleb & Audrey.

I made scones to have with dinner tonight. We had breakfast. While I was making the scones (from a mix) Audrey ate 3 scones from a package we already had. Then she put away a big rasher of bacon (1 slice) and 2 servings of scrambled eggs. More than she eats all day long on some days. The scones tasted a lot like the Rock Cakes I made for 7th grade Texas History class, minus the raisins. Mom - do you still have that recipe somewhere?

I'm sitting here with the TV on and an ad reminded me about their funny pronounciations over here. Herbal is not "erbal" as we'd say it, but "hhherbal" - they actually pronounce the "h." I need to get the video camera out and record the kids saying their funny little British things. Especially Audrey and her funny inflections. She doesn't even realize she's doing it. That's what makes it so precious! And it amazes me that Caleb manages to slip more and more British words and phrases into his everyday vocabulary, despite the fact that he's not in school right now. I guess he gets it from TV and the 3 mornings he goes to his little Camp Adventure.

The pest man came today to kill the wasps in our attic. Hugely annoying these little pests that kept popping up in our upstairs bathrooms. They never tried to harrass us - mostly we found them dead or dying on the floor. But the pest man came today and killed off the rest of them.

If my nose had been the only sense working on the way to get Steve, I would have sworn we were in Hereford. Yee-ikes did it smell! I used complaints and jokes about the smell to entertain the kids for a solid 8 minutes, then asked them if they wanted to tell Steve that it smelled in Burghfield or if they wanted him to be surprised by it. They wanted to "joke" him and let him discover the stink on his own. Caleb even whispered to me as we were almost to smelly Burghfield, "Mom, roll down your window so Daddy can smell how bad it stinks in Burghfield!" So Steve joined the fun and we had another 4 minutes of laughing and jokes about the very stinky newly fertilized field we were driving past.

Goodnight!