some happenings

On Thursday evening was the annual fundraising game evening at the school. The kids had a ton of fun. I wanted to stay home but Gerard "twisted my arm" and said it would be more fun if we went as a whole family. And it was good to get out although it was really loud.

Sharleen is wearing her Sunday dress from dress up black and white day. (she didn't get dressed up for the night out) Danielle loves to "read" stories to her new little sister. too cute. I will often turn my back and she is sitting beside her with some books.

And a MAJOR highlight in the Arink household is the new toaster Daddy wisely got us on some points he had saved up. We had fire coming out of one toaster in the summer so I dug the next one out that I had in the crawl space from someone, and this one also had problems, the big problem of not popping up. We had lots of smoky incidents, but had learned not to walk away from the toaster, but now with a new baby in the house and lack of sleep, the brain is not up to full function, and had another very scary moment. (I think it would be safe to say that we are not the brightest lights on the street right now) but anyway, now we have a big shiny fully functioning toaster. (even the one we got from our wedding never worked properly) And the options, the many options this thing has...a reheat button, a bagel button, a cancel button, a defrost button, a screen showing how much time is left, WOW!! is all I can say. I have waited ten years to have a fully functioning toaster, and it is great. (yup the little things in life, or maybe it is a big thing, not having my house burn down)