Thursday, December 28, 2006

Post-Christmas downtime

Not at this house. All the kids are home, the husband is home. First I was cleaning for Christmas, then Christmas was here and we had company. Then we exchanged a couple gifts, spent some gift cards. Following that outing, we got ready for our next visitor (Maddie's best friend from Indiana), and now she is here, so we are running around.

Maddie has an aggressive agenda: Show Megan every square inch of Houston between now and Sunday. Science musuem, IMAX, zoo, Galleria, Carl's BBQ, La Madeleine. I'll drop dead of exhaustion (and bankruptcy) before it's all over.

Note to self: Science museum is packed when there is no school. The lines for the women's restroom are long, the restroom smells, and people like to hang about, waiting for their party, taking up valuable floor space. And we're not talking those with small children; at least they have an excuse.

But the butterflies are still wonderful, breathtakingly beautiful. I've never seen such a vivid blue before.

And why, if you're spending the day at the museum, does one need to yak on the mobile the entire time? Just curious ...

To bed; I'm beat. More tomorrow!

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