Yup, it’s Friday! Can I hear a great bit WHOOOHOOO??? It’s been a fair week, nothing horrible happened, but it’s also been a semi stressful week as well! My son’s first high school grade card came this week with some extremely bad grades. (Who know there was such a grade as an F-?) I get a letter yesterday from my daughters school that she has 2 missing assignments and 2 late assignments in her reading class, which is very rare for her, she’s an honor roll student. We also discovered that the clarinet I bought for her in eBay a few weeks ago is a MAJOR piece of junk! Her old clarinet is VERY old, like 15 years old, and she was having a difficult time with it, basically it needs a complete overhaul. So I went on eBay and got her a brand new clarinet, thinking that it HAD to be better than what she had, even if it wasn’t a top of the line instrument. WRONG! Pads are already falling off the new clarinet, we’ve had to glue 2 of them back on. On top of that, the upper register notes are VERY difficult to play, even for me, so there’s obviously some sort of air leak going on. Fortunately, I contacted the seller I bought it from and they are more than willing to exchange this one for another, so I need to get it shipped out to them sometime in the next week.
I did manage to get my Christmas shopping started this week, which is amazing because I’ve always been a last minute shoper when it comes to Christmas shopping! I ran up to Michigan and met my mom and sister at Kohl’s. They were having a sale and on top of that my mom had a coupon giving her an additional 30% off the total price of her purchase. I snagged up a cute corduroy winter coat for my daughter for $17.50 and some jeans for less than $7. Mom grabbed some shirts and sweaters for the kids as well as a winter coat for my son, so she’s getting her shopping started as well!
I’m hoping to get the house in order enough over the next couple of days that I can start getting out my Christmas decorations either this weekend or the beginning of the week. I’ve accepted the fact that I won’t be able to put my Christmas tree up for a few more weeks, but that doesn’t mean I have to wait to put everything else up now, does it? LOL Hubby will, of course, have a fit when I start putting my decorations out, he always does! I just hope the dogs don’t chew up my decorations! If they do, then I’ll just move them outside to the shed until Christmas is over…LOL!
