We are getting some things done around here. Most of what we are doing seems to be wedding prep. We had gotten my daughter's bridesmaid dress in December. That's pretty easy. They tell you which dress to buy and you order it in your size. Mine, which we finally got on Saturday, involved a lot of shopping, one purchase and return; after which I decided not to shop online and then a lot of trying on. I got a dress on Saturday at Dress Barn, which I just love.
I've been practicing cooking some of the menu items for the rehearsal dinner. I have to serve 60 people in a park pavilion in another state, which I am told has electrical outlets, but I am not sure how many crock pots I can plug in. Also, I don't want to have to work really hard the whole time I'm there, I want to be able to relax some and enjoy myself so I'm trying to come up with a menu that is easy and not too expensive. For now, the menu is pulled pork barbecue, green beans, coleslaw, potato chips, various drinks and cake for dessert. They are having a wedding brunch on the day of the wedding, with no cake, so we won't be redundant serving cake. Also, I can cook the cakes here and ice them there and that will be easy peasy. Now that I've got that planned and my dress bought, the next thing is to outfit my youngest son who is a groomsman. That won't be too difficult. He's an easy size and I've been told what to buy.
These first 2 pictures are from a trip to Q-Doba during the dress shopping adventures and are to illustrate my daughter's neat hand napkin, table napkin, table napkin, face napkin technique for eating nachos and my pile-o-napkins method. I just think it's funny how different we are. The next picture is Cosmo, just because he's cute. Please ignore the piles of clothes and vacuum cleaner behind him. :-P The other pic is a page from the Fredrick Bachman book I just read, Beartown. Wow, that was an intense read. I felt like I had truly been in another world for a few hours. It was more serious/less funny than his other books and therefore I don't know if I'll read it again. I've already read the other 3 each twice since discovering him as an author last year.
In homeschooling type news, we had the board game group meetup today which was fun. We had a good turnout of 8 kids/young adults. My favorite line from the meeting was when one of them asked if there were any nerds here and another one looked at him and said "Dude, we're all nerds." :-) Since we are in the launching stage of homeschooling, I am going to call the local community college and set up my son's orientation. He still hasn't decided if he's going to community college or going to do an apprenticeship. We'll see. I keep trying to prepare for any eventuality, scheduling things like this, keeping up with his application status and scholarship applications and things like that. I've also started moderating a homeschool group on Facebook, so I'm lending my voice of experience to younger moms, which is kind of cool.
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