January 12th, 2010

Dear Martha-
Yesterday was a very productive day.  After dropping Eleanor off at school (before which I actually took a shower!!!!) Vincent and I went to Fleet Farm to buy a DVD player.  Yes, we went to a hunters haven for an electronic device.  Why?  Andrew said they had a dvd player for $25, and ours broke the night of the 11th.  We cannot afford a fancy dvd player from best buy.  When we were walking into the store I noticed a sign that read, "Please do not bring your deer hides into the store, bring them around back."  I think that I could write an entire paragraph about Fleet Farm, but I have limited time.
Anyways, after Fleet Farm Vincent and I went to my fathers house where I trimmed my grandmothers toenails.  Grandma Brown is 95 and I visit her about every 3 weeks to clips her toenails.  Once while we were out for lunch I outlined her hand on a place mat and then outlined my hand and each of my kids hands.  I had great plans with this project.  I wanted to cut the hands out of tissue paper and make a family hand collage.  Unfortunately, like a lot of the little things in my life - I lost the placemat with the hands outlined on it.  I want to do this again sometime and actually complete the project.
Jessica and Claire met us at my dads and then went to Mcdonalds play land with us.  We were there for 2 hours and all Vincent ate was his Chocolate Milk.  He ate 4 of my left over chicken nuggets at home at 4:20pm.  Eleanor ate his uneaten cheeseburger at that time.  This made preparing dinner unneccessary.  Andrew heated up leftovers for himself and I ate toast. 
After our evening meals Eleanor and I worked on making folders for her Girl Scout Cookie sales.  She will begin selling cookies on Saturday.  We are planning to visit several of the group homes in my company and leaving order forms for my co-workers to consider when they are at work.  This year our troop will be donating cookies to Wingspan too - so my co-workers have the options of buying cookies for their group homes too!
After that project Eleanor and I went to Walgreens to pick up pictures of her cousins.  She made a scrapbook page of her cousins to bring to show and tell.
At the end of the evening I put Eleanors hair into braids so it would be crimped in the morning.  My GS leader called me and talked to me for quite a bit and then Andrew and I watched the Bourne Identity.