Happy Veterans Day!!!

• Can I do a Bullet Sunday on Monday? I stole the Bullet Sunday idea from Dave so I suppose I can since there are like no real rules or anything. And people post memes on the wrong days all the time (like Thursday Thirteen on Wednesday or even Tuesday) so yes, I do suppose this is OK.

• Saturday we took Kayla out for more driving practice. I think I hid my terror well. Even when she got on the highway and all the way up to 50 MPH (the speed limit on that stretch of highway) I contained my panic. Actually she did pretty good. She needs more practice for us to feel totally confident in her abilities to drive on her own but she did great overall.

• With Kayla still at the wheel, we stopped at Costco for groceries and I took a peek at their jewelry display. They have $5000 and up diamond rings in their display case. In fact, most of the jewelry was anywhere from 5k - 20k. Yikes. I could not imagine wearing anything that expensive, let alone owning something like that. To me it seems like such a waste of money. Maybe to super rich people a 5k ring is nothing, but to me the money could be better spent. I appreciate fine jewelry and I love to add bling now and then, but I guess I’m more practical. If I did win the lottery in some bizarre fluke, the last thing I’d buy is jewelry that expensive.

• Yesterday was Sissa’s end-of-football-season party. The kids chose to have it at the skating rink. I have not been roller skating in about 20 years. I took ice skating lessons as a child and used to roller skate every weekend. I had my own skates and skated all over the place. I was pretty good. I thought it would be like riding a bike as I strapped on roller skates last night. As soon as I stood up and almost fell flat on my ass, I knew I was seriously mistaken. I wobbled around the first 1/2 hour or so and almost fell on my face 3-4 times. Then some of the muscle memory came back and by the end of the session I was skating backwards a little bit like I used to be able to.. It was also Sissa and Cody’s first time skating, (Casey chose to watch) and Sissa picked it up pretty fast. Cody flopped around on the wall and around the rink the entire time. He never stopped once to take a break and he mostly didn’t want our help. He got better but never enough to let go of the wall. He was adorable. He said he couldn’t wait to tell his teacher that he learned how to skate.

• You know that whole lack of sleep thing that’s been going on with me? Despite being absolutely exhausted and sore from the skating thing, the weather decided I didn’t need to sleep in and the howling wind woke me up at 5 AM. I did sleep very soundly though so it wasn’t that bad. It’s been windy/stormy all day and I kinda like it. The kids don’t have school today since it’s Veteran’s Day and it’s been nice being all cozy and warm inside while it storms outside.