Happy Birthday Becca!!

A day late. But we celebrated a couple days early, on Sunday with her requested dinner of steak with chimichurri, roasted potatoes and asparagus and an ice cream cake for dessert. She got an iPhone for her birthday, which she was totally surprised and ecstatic about since we had told her previously that she wouldn't get one till after 5th grade. But hey, she's 11 now and starting to do things like walk to friends' houses on the next street and go to play rehearsals. So, out of shouting distance more often. Also, I got a deal when I switched out cell phone plan to unlimited data if I added a fourth line. Happy birthday Becca!! Can't believe you are 11!

Hurricane Florence

September brought the wrath of hurricane Florence, which cleared out the bread and water from Charlotte, closed the county schools for three days (two of them entirely needlessly of course), and dumped a record amount of rainfall on the city. By the time the storm arrived it was much weaker wind-wise than anticipated, so Joel and the kids were disappointed that we didn't even get tropical storm force winds. We certainly got a lot of rain though. The disruption to the kids' new back to school routine was NOT APPRECIATED. Fortunately we are now back into the swing of things!

This is my accidental rain gauge, as Caroline happened to have left this bucket hanging on the porch railing before the storm!

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a sweet 5779!