Day 60

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Ally was invited to a birthday party, so we were all up early and getting ready for the day.

We all went inside to visit for a few minutes before Melinda, Abigail, and I left to go back to Wal-Mart to purchase all of Abigail's school supplies.  This is one of my favorite times of the year.  I love all the nice, unused school supplies and always pick up a few things for myself in order to restock my classroom.  I try to buy a few extra things each year so that the girls' teachers, or any other teacher at the school, end up needing things during the year, I can send them a few items to help get them through to the end of the year.  By the time we were done shopping, we had just enough time to get back home, make something for lunch, and then go pick Ally up from the birthday party.

When we got home, we relaxed at the house until it was time to take Abigail to soccer practice.  Everyone loaded up this time.  The house has been really hot in the afternoons, so we've been escaping the heat at different places around town each evening for dinner.  We dropped Robert and Abby off for practice and the rest of us went to Staples to purchase all of Ally's supplies.  Again....I'm in heaven!  That store is entirely made up of school and office supplies.  It ended up taking longer than I thought, and we barely made it back before practice was over.

We decided to take Melinda to another of our favorite Rockwall eateries, Chiloso.  It is a Mexican Bistro and is oh-so-delicious!  Afterwards, we went to Dick's sporting goods store to get Ally some new knee pads and volleyball for her game tomorrow night.  Next, we stopped at Petco to get the dogs some more dog food and play with the kitties while Robert stood in line.  This is always Melinda's favorite part.

Once we had everyone loaded up, we headed back to Forney and our much cooler house.