View from Melba Cemetary

My friend Amy and I went to a funeral this summer and this picture was taken at the cemetary, I realize a bit morbid but the really the view was amazing. It is ironic that she sent me this picture today as I was just reading an article in Vermont Life about all the old cemetaries in Vermont and the organization that restores headstones and keeps them neat.

Three of the kids are finishing week 1 of a 2 week fall break. I think 1 week would have been adequate but apparently I didn't make the schedule.

We have finally, (keep fingers and toes crossed) sold the house in Colorado. The closing is set for October 24th. What a nightmare!! We sold it as a short sale so of course the 2nd mortgage company wants to filet you open and look at your insides!! If anyone ever has to go with a short sell I can tell you it is a painful and frustrating ordeal!! The banker actually to our realator "they are both working" making it sound like I a full time job--Yes, I work 10 hours a week at a little more than minimum wage!! and only during the school year. The only reason that Jim even disclosed to them that I was working was so they couldn't come back and say we were with holding information. Maybe someday I will grow back the hair that I have lost!!

So, about the job I serve hot lunch at one of the local elementary schools. The kids are plotting against me I am sure of it, because I always tell them 2 bites and come back and tell me if you like it. It makes me crazy when they look at something turn up their nose and say "yuck, I don't like that!!" Apple crisp--who doesn't like apple crisp. They make all their rolls from scratch and kids turn those down. I guess you have to be cooking for yourself to appreciate some things, and at 3.00 or more a gallon I want to scream when I see how much milk they waste. I want to get them stickers that say "I tried something new" and "I drank all my milk"

Fall Festival

Yes, this is Nick sitting with a yellow Boa constrictor, it was in the reptile room at the Fall Festival and you could get your picture taken with it. And yes, I avoided this room like the plague...snakes...spiders....oh yuck!! Zach came home last week and said he needed to find a spider to take to class the next day. Tell your teacher we have the bug people come and spray so we don't have any spiders in our house, it makes your mom happy when we don't have creepy crawly things in the house!!
Every once in a while you have to through them a curve. Nick won this cake at the cake walk at the Fall Festival, so when we got home I put 6 forks on the table and told them they could cut pieces and put them on a plate or they could just eat the cake straight off the board it was on. Ben cut a piece ate about half of it and decided he had had enough. They all thought I had lost my mind, letting them eat as much cake as they wanted. How crazy!!
A group of kids went to a place in Meridian called Spyglass Gardens and made scarecrows to use as decorations at the Fall Festival. Above is one of them we had straw bales and corn stalks donated to the school for use at the Festival.