The picture is our anniversary gift from Aurora - she made it in school. The best part, for me, is she got a great compliment from the teacher on it - yeah!! I think it has also helped her want to do better. BTW, our anniversary was 9/23.
On that note, we took our first college trip with Aurora. The school is in Morrisville, NY, which struck me as we live in Morrisville, PA - lol. David and I liked it enough to think we needed to go back to school, esp as neither of us went to college. So all others we visit will have to beat it. The only thing that is bad is its 4 1/2 hrs from near w/o stopping. We left at 3:45 am to go up there - can you say tired? We got there at 8:45, left just after 2 and didn't get home until after 9 (stopped to eat once we got back to town). What a long day! We are going to do two open houses next month - one at Temple - Ambler campus and at DelVal in Doylestown. Both are about 45 min from home. Closer is good:)
Been pretty busy. Work is crazy, as usual. The girls are doing ok in school - we did hit both back to school nights. Aurora is back to bowling on Saturdays, Amelia to dance on Mondays and she finishes up lacrosse clinic tomorrow. My gf Jen is moving - once the house she'll be renting passes inspection (it failed today - something electrical). So she was going to move Monday, but now hopefully it will be Wednesday. I am taking the day off to help and have been over there on and off this month to help her pack. We did go out to dinner with her and a few others a couple weeks ago and had a great time. I did not know Don Shula had a chain of steak restaurants (for those not into football, he was coach of the Miami Dolphins for a long time). The food was good - and expensive. Wasn't quite expecting that. Dessert was totally fabulous though - a chocolate molten lava cake - that was huge! I should have taken a pic of that.
Book Club was last week. We read Reconstructing Amelia. I liked it, even though you know it will be sad. Amelia is 15 and dies at school - the cops called it suicide. Her mom, Kate, gets a text that says Amelia didn't jump and the rest of the book is her "reconstructing" the last few weeks of her life. It was interesting as it was written for today's world - pages were done with "text" messages and Facebook pages, just like all kids do now. I liked it a lot. Next book is The Natural by Bernard M (I can't remember the name). This book was made into a movie in the 80s starring Robert Redford. Saw the movie but never read the book, so that works for me.
Ok, off to bed. I have to take both girls in the morning, as David has to go to work. Lets leave with another picture . . . .
Amanda
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