Hours away from the weekend

The work week is almost over! Thank Goodness. I am very much looking forward to the weekend. I am even going to take Monday off and make it a long weekend. My mom called and asked if I would like to join her and my sister for a day at the beach. I might change my mind if the weather doesn’t look great for the day but right at the moment the extended forecast looks great!

After work tonight I need to go home and clean up the house a bit, I have company coming for the afternoon tomorrow. A lifelong friend of mine is coming to visit for the afternoon with her husband. I haven’t seen her in over a year and she has never seen our new home. I want it to be neat and clean. I think the biggest challenge in getting things neatened up is my bedroom. I have soooo many clothes. Most of them no longer fit and I need to spend some time trying things on and bagging up what is too big. Then I have a couple of bathrooms to clean, floors to sweep and some food preparation to do. I will save the outside stuff for tomorrow morning.

On Sunday is my nieces 17th birthday. I am going to my mother’s for cake and ice cream on Sunday afternoon for a little while. My husband is going to stay home and do some carpentry work. He took the stairs off one side of our deck. They were very narrow and dangerous steps. He bought all the lumber to make new stairs and then it started raining, it’s been raining since. The weekend weather looks good so maybe he will be able to get out there and work on his projects.

Last week my oldest daughter told me to keep my eyes open for yard sales with children’s clothes. Both kids are in need of fall clothing and she doesn’t have a lot of money to spend. I had to leave work early yesterday for an appointment so I stopped at the Salvation Army thrift store to see what they might have. I found some nice things for both kids. Then I stopped at the Children’s consignment store that I drive by every day, what a place! It was neat and clean, all of the clothes were on racks by size, and everything was clean and in most cases ironed. The prices were about the same as the Salvation Army store. I was able to buy lots of stuff with not a lot of money. I’m sure I will be back there again soon.

My youngest daughter comes home from camp tomorrow. I talked to her on Wednesday and she wasn’t having the best time. I was very surprised! In past years she didn’t want to come home, I would find her and all her friends at the dock hugging and crying because the week was over. This year they had new counselors and lots of changes. She says she probably won’t go back next year. It cost about $650 for the week. For that kind of money you should have a good time.

I work at a college and we are very busy getting ready for the students coming back to campus. Believe it or not some are actually moving in today. School doesn’t start until September 1st and the bulk of the kids move in at the end of the month. We are almost ready for them. I love it when they all come back. It feels like the campus comes back to life after being dormant for the summer. I’m not in any hurry to say good-bye to summer but I’m sure the fall will be good too.

Have a good weekend everyone~