Although Tom gave himself a treat and took a day off on Monday. He spent it with Allison running errands and ordering her college books online. He also was drop off and pick up for Scott and his friends at a computer summer camp at the community college. Scott loves the Kids on Campus classes and recently finished a Pets N Vets class for his Pets Merit BAdge for Boy Scouts. This time he signed up for a computer programming class in Visual Basic with a few of his friends. Unfortunately, his friend Bryce broke his elbow last week at a rock climbing camp and had to have surgery this past week, so he did not finish out the class. And his brother who also signed up for the class missed a few sessions because of driver's ed and a sinus infection. But Scott really enjoyed the class.
Unfortunately, Scott and his friend Bryce were supposed to go to an Amusement Park camp next week. However, with Bryce's arm in a cast and just coming out of surgery, he had to cancel. We had to scramble to find Scott a new buddy to go with, and were lucky enough to find another available friend who was able to get into the program. Even though he was 6th on the waiting list. The boys will be traveling to a different Theme Park each day, with a built in rain day at the movies and bowling. Tomorrow they are off to Six Flags near DC. Scott is in heaven.
Besides his computer class, I had him stay busy finishing up his summer reading and book report. He also worked on a few merit badges. He even rode his bike up to the Boy Scout meeting on his own this week, but it thunderstormed and they ended the meeting early since all their activities were scheduled for outside.
Allison did not have to babysit this week as her Russian family found a full time replacement nanny. Instead she worked at the roller blade center on the weekend, and kept busy writing up her Girl SCout Gold Award project report. She and Tom spent another afternoon this weekend mounting model birds at the nature center. Everyone liked the first batch so much, the Audobon Society carved another set of birds and this time the staff asked Allison and Tom to mount the birds along a paved pathway for handicap accessibility to her educational program that goes along with the Nature trail. Allison also took a photo of herself in her uniform and wrote a quote for a newspaper release about the program. Next weekend she will be training the instructors on her power point computer presentation that goes along with the Nature Trail. I also had her start packing up her clothes for school in case she needed to buy anything like jeans or dress clothes for the business program. The business students are expected to dress up once a week for class. I want to take Allison shopping this coming week if she needs any clothes since it is tax free week in Maryland. She also spent a lot of time at the doctor's office catching up on vaccinations and getting a TB test before school starts(mandatory). I also had a doctor's appointment and next week it is Cookies turn for a shot before she goes to the kennel.
Friday afternoon I hosted a home mortgage surveyor as Tom wants to look into refinancing before the interest rates go up. The woman that came out spent over an hour and a half measuring the perimeter of our house, and then walking through the house and taking pictures of every room, bathroom and closet! I just expected her to take a quick run through the house and measure the outside. Still don't know what our house is worth yet. I also spent the weekend cutting the lawn and running errands. But at least I did not have to cook!
On Saturday we were invited to dinner with our old neighbors that lived across the street. Scotty and their son Sammy are best friends. Sammy ended up spending the night on FRiday and the boys spent their whole time together watching movies and playing video games. On Saturday night we all went over to their house to enjoy steak and salmon on their new deck and screened in back porch. I decided to make a banana pudding for dessert and was glad I did since they did not have anything prepared. I made a huge serving and did not have much left to bring home. The family also wanted to have Allison over as a sort of Bon Voyage as she heads off to college(she babysat their youngest son quite a bit). Then Sunday night we were invited over to dinner at another house of previous neighbors and Scott's buddy Bryce. This time we were celebrating our friend Barry's 59th Birthday. And this time Scott decided to make dessert(although we did not need any with chocolate birthday cake and cheesecake!). But our next door neighbor had dropped off an extra large zucchini from a friend's garden and couldn't possibly eat it by himself, so he donated it to our household. Scott immediately turned part of it into zucchini bread with chocolate chips which even with all the desserts, was still a big hit. I put together a plate of smoked salmon and cream cheese crackers for an appetizer, but there was more than enough food. We all came home with goody bags(more salmon and this time a pork roast for dinner). We are stuffed! And so is my fridge. I also brought home several loaves of bread and bagels this week from my workplace as a local bakery donates leftovers to our facility. More than the kitchen can handle, so they pass the extra onto the staff. And lunch was taken care of at work as we hosted our first Rehab Open House with a nurse instructor/vendor as guest(and she brought along trays of sandwiches and veggies). Good thing I am keeping busy with yard work!
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