The week in review

On Monday, we went to the Museum of World Treasures with my parents. I enjoyed it...and I think the kids did as well. Of course, once we saw the dinosaurs and the Egyptian stuff, they were ready to go and went through the rest of the museum extremely fast. Grandpa forgot to put their wheelchair placard up on the rearview mirror, and when we came out there was a ticket. I called Mike, he called the PO and she came back and got the ticket from us. My dad's always done so much for me, I was glad I could help them out and get that ticket taken care of.
Afterward we went to Build-A-Bear (Alexa had a gift certificate) and to HobbyTown USA (Andrew bought an $80 model dinosaur with b-day money).

Wednesday was library day - we are doing two library programs this year. We ride bikes up to our library which is about a 5 or 6 mile round trip. The kids are learning about Egypt, when we aren't swimming, riding bikes, reading or doing math, so we made scarabs out of modeling clay. Unfortunately, when I baked them instead of getting hard, they melted. Oops - I guess I picked up the wrong box. I know I had read on a box about baking it, but then I guess I grabbed a different box. So, then the next day, they made sarcophagus models and other figures, out of cookie dough. They enjoyed that immensely. And when I baked them, they were like they were supposed to be, instead of a melted mess.

Almost every day we swim, which has been good. A friend of mine has a pool at her apartment building, so we have been going over there and usually we are the only ones in the pool, which is great.

I have been exercising since school got out, but hadn't seen any results. Eleven days ago I started a pretty strict diet and have lost 11 pounds. Of course, in addition to that, I increased my exercising - sometimes 3 hours a day. I am so glad to finally be seeing some results!