"Aunt Jenny” that is what my pretty little niece calls me. She has the sweetest little voice when she says it too. I ended up taking Rebecca and Allison over to my sister’s house this evening and sitting with the kids for a while until she came home from work. The two babies were so cute and really good together. In fact for the couple of hours I was there, all four kids were really good and it was nice to be with them. I love it that we are all so close and spend so much time together. I have to say we are blessed with some pretty awesome kids.

Allison’s class just finished reading The Spider Chronicles with their teacher and this evening they all made plans to meet at the dollar show to see it on the big screen. Allison was so worried she wouldn’t be able to make it because it started at 5:15 and most days I am home from work just about that time but lucky for her her dad was home in time to take her. I hope they are having a good time. It’s been a while since she has been out some where with just her dad. It makes me smile at the thought of them standing in line for popcorn and Allison introducing him to all of her little girl friends.

Bethany and the baby are here for the night and so is my nephew. Making our house pretty full. We picked up a stack of movies, some thing for everyone and then this evening we ordered pizza for dinner. It’s been a great time. I love these kinds of weekends.

I even bought Jiffy popcorn to pop on the stove burner. Remember those, the ones you shake? I thought they would be fun for the kids. Well, I was wrong. Allison was too scared to hold hers and I had to pull my nephew back from placing his face right above his about a dozen times. It took about ten minutes and we finally heard a little sizzling and then they just burned. It was the worst smell. Oh well. I had good intentions.  Lets hope my plan for homemade pan cakes goes better in the morning.

My aunt just showed up at my house with a birthday gift and a container of my favorite homemade cinnamon rolls just for me. The birthday girl.
Have I blogged about how lucky I am lately? Because I really am blessed with a loving family that I adore.

Allison is so over tired and winy that I am loosing my mind the last couple of days. I feel bad because it’s not her fault we have been on the go the past few evenings causing her to be up past her bed time and she is a girl who really needs her sleep. Thank goodness we don’t having plans for the next three days so she can get back on her schedule because I am really losing my patience. BIG TIME !

Allison had a great time but was very happy to be home last night. She met us at the terminal with tears rolling down her face and great big hugs. Things were kind of hectic getting in last night. We really only had a few quiet minutes together before bed. I am looking forward to seeing her photos tonight that I dropped off this morning on my way to work and hearing all about everything. So far she told me as far as sight seeing The Eiffel Tower was her favorite.

In fact she called us from France to tell us that before she even came home. We knew that while on her trip the best way for her call home any time she wanted was by using international phone cards. It just makes things a whole lot easier when it comes time to pay the bill because there is no bill. We have been big users of using calling cards while on vacation even before I searched GetMeCallingCards.com for the best France calling cards a week before she left. We even leave one up north in our trailer now for those weekends that run in to “long” weekends and we need to call the babysitter or even the office to say we wont be back for one more day. Those are my favorite calls to make with our calling card! One more day !