Sunny Saturday

Had a busy day today...10 a.m. pedicure, met with a potential freelancer (and former Oregonian reporter/editor) for the magazine, then shopped for drapes for the dining room (one of our drapery panels ripped and needs to be replaced) and met my friend Sarah for a lovely bike ride at 4:30. We did part of the Springwater Trail in 90 minutes, and it was so enjoyable that I made her promise we'd do the whole thing (the trail runs all the way east to Damascus and is about 20 miles) before the crappy weather starts. I figure we have the rest of September and early October to make good on that resolve.

We got back at around 7, and I invited Sarah to join Drew, Rachel and I for dinner. We went out to a Middle Eastern place where Rachel refused to eat anything because it was "too spicy." I told her that the chicken Sarah graciously gave Rachel off her plate was like the baked chicken Mommy makes at home, and Rachel smiled, hugged me and said, "I like it because it's YOUR baked chicken," but she still refused to eat it. Finally after much insisting, I got her to eat some of the lamb kabobs (which were pretty awful so I couldn't blame her for not liking them).

Rachel went to dinner in the NEW LEOTARD, TIGHTS AND BALLET SHOES that Drew bought her in preparation for DANCE CLASS! next Saturday. The leotard is black and sleeveless. She looks like a little Russian girl in dance class, so cute and serious. Drew said that the woman at the leotard store remarked that Rachel is so tall! When they got home she piroutted and moved her arms very gracefully to "The Four Seasons." I think she's going to LOVE dance class, and we will love watching her!

Tomorrow we hope to go to Mt. Hood Adventure Park, but we need to do grocery shopping and return the drapes I bought because they are too long; Drew got the measurements wrong so it's yet another trip to Bed Bath & Beyond. I wouldn't be so anxious to replace them except that a) custom drapes, which I am dying to get, are way beyond our budget and b) we have invited our friends the Petermans and their two kids to Rosh Hashana dinner next Sunday and I don't want them to sit in our dining room and look at ripped drapes. So....there you go. Hoping I can get valances up in the living room, too, but that may be trickier.