Filed under "You know you're a parent when..." you spend a full hour with your nose pressed to the glass at Krispy Kreme watching donuts make their way through the conveyor belt, toast in the hot oil and pass through the glaze waterfall. Judah was completely fascinated by the mechanics. A cup of coffee, three donuts later and our little family considered this a terrific Friday night.

Micheal did carpool today (I need to thank him for covering me this week while I get ready for my meeting!) When he and Judah got home, I greeted them at the garage door. Judah looked up at me with wide eyes and asked, "Mama, are you hurt?" I said, "No!" Then he asked, "Do you have a cough?" I didn't understand why he was asking until he pulled out a construction paper "doctor satchel" in which he had pasted a red first aid cross and filled with a tongue depressor, a medicine dispenser, a Q-tip, a piece of gauze, two cotton balls, a latex glove and a Band-aid. I feigned a coughing fit and he grabbed me by the hand saying, "Come on, Mama, you need to lay down on the couch so I can fix you all better." He filled the medicine dispenser with water from the sink and had me prop up on a pillow to drink it. I did feel better! :-) He put the Band-aid on me and then rubbed the cotton balls all over my face and arms. Then, he finished up by wetting the gauze and placing it on my arm. Such a sweet boy.

This is going to be our busiest weekend in a while. I went out with the moms in Jude's PK4 class last night, had a breakfast meeting w/Morgan related to our church volunteer work, got back to my regional board meeting prep (been pulling 11 hour days this week...working whenever I can...miss my family!). I had to bake cookies at the crack of dawn today because I'm a home baker at school and we've got a fall festival tomorrow where baked goods, books, music, etc will be sold. Tomorrow I get a couple hours to myself while the boys go sailing, then it's off to the school festival where I am the class shift coordinator and am working a shift of my own with my friend Tiffany. Sunday is church, seasonal decorating of the church playgrounds and campus, then a birthday party followed by a Cowboys viewing party.

"Getcha popcorn ready!" - T.O.

Next week is going to be my hell week of getting my board meeting locked and loaded (it nearly is, so maybe the remaining bits will be sorted out by Tuesday!), then next weekend is fall break where we're hopefully going to the ranch for a few days of R&R, then back for the meeting, followed by another weekend at another ranch with high school friends of Micheal's and then Halloween carving and trick or treating, capped off by a Rocky Horror party in early November. Whew!

Somehow in the middle of all of this, I'm knitting socks for Socktoberfest, a scarf for Judah, which I have love/hate for the merino it's being knit with (the up side is it's soft and has good drape, the down side is it sucks the moisture out of my hands and I am not fond of the colorway and intense fuzziness now that it's knit up.) It looked prettier when it was wound up in a ball.
I'm busy adding my projects to Ravelry and my books to LibraryThing. And thinking of adding a 5th knit project - Maine Morning Mitts (copyright Clara Parkes) out of the ball of Noro Kureyon that was to be a hat for Judah, but I am repurposing for these fingerless mittens. I'm rereading Harry Potter's Goblet of Fire, rereading Pride and Prejudice (for the millionth time) and also poking through Pat Conroy's The Water is Wide.