She's Back...

WOW...What can I say. It has been 4 days since my last post and boy has it been a whirlwind of a week. Where do I begin? Our lives here in the Sloan household are never boring, never sedate, never....you fill in the blank. So here's a rundown of the week so far at our house...

Friday - I had to take my van into the shop to get the belt replaced. You'll need to know this in a minute.

Saturday - already blogged about our wonderful day, just read about it.

Sunday - Great day at church. We had a bake sale and I bought a wonderful red velvet cake with cream cheese icing made by Michele Johnson. Great !!!! Snack night after church on Sunday night sponsored by the Youth Dept. Great !!!! Can you tell we Pentecostals love to eat, especially on Sunday. The kids gave out their Valentine's in Sunday School class and they had parties. Sugar high, oh yeah.

Monday - Maggie was out of school for teacher's meetings and Eddie took his President's Day holiday too. So we had a family day at home. We had a lot of different things to do and everybody kinda did their own thing, but we came together at the end of the day. We decided that since we were all at home and it would be extremely crowded on Tuesday night, we did our Valentine's Dinner on Monday night at Outback with our children. We got there before the crowd and it was wonderful. Maggie and I worked on her Valentine box. That was especially fun, since we both burnt our fingers with the hot glue gun.

Tuesday - Happy Valentine's Day to you all !! My sweetie has been so good. He's been giving us Clifford valentines and candy for the past week. This morning I got a tear jerking card and a sappy movie I asked for "A Walk to Remember". It makes my heart hurt when I watch it. This night we had dinner in our newly painted dining room on our china and we opened our goodie bags. What a fun day. Maggie had her Valentine's party today at school and got way too much candy. But she had fun.

Wednesday - Maggie's class went to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga on this day. Lincoln spent the day with his Grandma. He stayed in his P.J.s all day and loved it. I went with Maggie on the fieldtrip, but not on the bus. I drove my van with my friend, Debra riding with me. We got to Winchester and the trouble began. We pulled over and found nothing. So on we drove until we got to Monteagle Mtn. and to a garage. The mechanic said everything looks fine and the noise did stop UNTIL we got off the exit in Chattanooga. Of course, by this time we were missing the Aquarium. To make a long story short, we went to Firestone, they replace another belt and told me the pulley was bad and needed to be replaced. We ordered the part to be put on Thursday.
We went to the Aquarium, picked up our girls and went to TGI Friday's then went to Cold Stone to have ice cream. We made it home safely, but tune in tomorrow for the rest of the story.

Thursday - Started off my day at the dentist to have a temporary crown put on. Not the best way to begin your day, but I had to do it. Came home and picked up Lincoln and ran some errands. And there was that noise again. I immediately went home. When I called Firestone to check on the status of the part, I was informed that the part was on back order and wouldn't be in until Tuesday. This is NOT good. We are taking a group of singers to Atlanta tomorrow to sing. We had to rent a van, blah, blah, blah.

So do you see how my week has been and why I haven't had time to blog ?!? If you think about it, say a prayer for me and for my busy family. We like it that way. This way we don't have time to get bored or in trouble.

And we're off again tomorrow...