Week 34: August 21-27
It’s been a busy week for the Martins. On Wednesday, Grandma Martin got to spend most of the day at the zoo with Esther, Katherine, Bethany, and Christine. Afterwards, once I got home, we took Grandma out for dinner, to The Great Dane. Grandma enjoyed her first cheese curds and some delicious chicken pot pie.
On Thursday night, I took some Epic job candidates out to dinner, downtown. We ate at Graze and had a wonderful time. While I was gone, Christine and Grandma took the girls to church, to harvest produce. All of the food grown in the church gardens will be donated to local food pantries. Bethany enjoyed picking the cherry tomatoes but she was stuffing them into her mouth as fast as she was picking them. After I got home from my dinner (around 9pm), I was able to watch some Packers pre-season football with my mother.
On Friday, we had a pre-birthday party for Katherine. Grandma won’t be in town for her actual birthday, but wanted to celebrate with her anyway. So we had cupcakes and Katherine got to open two presents that Grandma gave her.
Saturday was a sad day. We had to take Grandma to the airport, so that she could fly back to Texas. We did get to play at the park with her, before we took her to the airport. Katherine was very sad to see her go, but Esther said she was happy to have her leave. When I asked her why she was happy, she told me “I don’t like her phone.” “Why not?” “It’s flowery and stuff and the shape is strange.” It sounds like Grandma needs a new phone before she visits again.
We attended our normal, weekly, 9:30am church service on Sunday morning. After everyone had their naps, we decided to have dessert for dinner, at Cold Stone Creamery.
Christine had two coupons, for buy one / get one free ice-cream creations. Esther ordered watermelon ice-cream with a gummy bear mix-in. Christine ordered cake batter ice-cream with a Butterfinger mix-in. Katherine ordered cotton candy ice-cream (she liked it because it was blue) with a gummy bear mix-in. I ordered chocolate ice-cream with a graham cracker crust mix-in. It was delicious and we had fun being out as a family.
On Monday, Christine and the girls spent the morning doing the weekly grocery shopping.
I came home from work a bit early on Monday evening, around 5pm. I came home early because we had to leave at 5:30pm for an orientation at Esther’s school. Esther went with her new classmates to listen to stories while the parents stayed in her classroom and got an overview of the daily schedule and the yearly goals, from her teacher. Esther had a great time off with her classmates.
After we were all done, we rejoined her in the school cafeteria, for some ice-cream. Shortly after the ice-cream, Esther got to meet with her teacher one on one for a 10 minute “getting to know you” session. It must have been a success because Esther said that she liked her teacher and had fun at her school.
When we got home, we still weren’t done for the day. Christine had scheduled an early morning appointment for an oil change for my car. We drove my car out to the shop and dropped it off, then brought everyone home. By the time we finally stopped, at 8:30pm, all of the girls were more than ready for bed.