Mommathon

Today was our second annual popsicle stand. We even had one customer who remembered us from last year. There was a little twist on our popsicle stand this year, however. Last summer the boys did a service project. They went door to door and collected canned goods for the local food pantry. We also had a popsicle stand last year. This year we decided to combine the two. To get a popsicle people had to either give us a can of food or pay 50 cents. Our popsicle stand earned $35.25. We also had someone donate two cans of food. So, we will use the money to go buy food and take that plus the two cans we got at the popsicle stand to our local food pantry.

Making the signs

Sorting the popsicles by flavor.

(Project 365-8/5/11)
The best part about running a popsicle stand…lots of popsicles. 🙂

We had many friends and neighbors who stopped by to make a donation and buy some popsicles, but one of Colm’s classmates who stopped by decided he wanted to help sell as well.

I thought it was pretty funny that I got this in the mail from National Geographic. Really? I don’t need one of those. Trust me.

We went to the garden tonight and one of our carrots was finally ready to be picked! Isn’t it perfect? 🙂 Also, our garden neighbors were there and told us we could have as much lettuce as we’d like because they were getting ready to go out of town and wouldn’t be able to eat it all. Awesome. Looks like we’re having salad with dinner tonight.

Liam is at comic book drawing camp this week in the mornings. He LOVES it and was in heaven when we found this comic book store not too far from our house.

It hasn’t even really been warm enough to go swimming. We have lowered our standards and will now go swimming even if it’s only in the high 70’s. If we wait for the 80’s we may never get to use the pool.

Our electric bill was in the mailbox today. Check out November. Why is November so high? That was the month of the flood where we had ZERO insulation and about a kajillion industrial strength fans running in our house 24 hours a day for at least a week. Oh boy that was fun.