This morning I took Rachel to gymnastics. Swimming was cancelled because of an electrical fire at the high school where the lessons are held, so I told her we'd run errands together until I had to get home and clean & cook dinner, since we were having people over for dinner tonight. "Can we please stop at the liberry?" she asked. "I want to do research for the lemonade stand." We ended up checking out a book with the title, "Better than a lemonade stand" about businesses for kid entrepreneurs. She loved it so much she actually began reading it while we were walking down the street in Westover Town Center on this GORGEOUS sunny spring day.
Afterward we went to a wonderful bakery here to pick up breakfast food for tomorrow. I bought her a pretzel and me a bratwurst to eat for lunch, and we chatted for a while as we ate. Then it was home, where Drew arrived just in time to play with her in the backyard. She showed him fun tricks on the swings, then curled up in his lap while he read a book about castles that she'd picked up at the library, while I cleaned the house, put away laundry and baked a cake.
Our guests arrived around 7:45 (Rachel had left to play at Ivy's house for a while), and we had a lovely dinner with a new friend, Donna, who I was introduced to via Facebook by Molly. Donna brought a friend, Dennis, who unfortunately had to leave early because of a mini-crisis involving his 15-year-old daughter. Donna has five nieces and brought some cool gifts for Rachel -- gel pens, a drawing pad, some candy -- and Rachel being Rachel, she immediately set to drawing a poster for Donna to take home. We all had a great time sitting around and talking, when Rachel all of a sudden announced, "Can you buy me a science kit? Like, TOMORROW." So, Drew will probably hunt one down after our visit with Dan and Beryle for lunch.
Really, Rachel IS getting hard to keep up with!
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