7 Quick Takes Friday - part V

Note - the host blog isn't doing Quick Takes this week, but I still wanted to be sure to credit her.

1. Patrick is LOVING pre-K. He seems to have a best buddy there, and talks about him all.the.time. It's nice to see that he's enjoying it so much; it's definitely helping his speech.

2. Started playing a free online game, in which several players in the group I'm in are from all over the world. Sooo, in order to have some idea of how late/early it is for them, I set up clocks on my Windows sidebar for their different time zones. Not because it's necessarily such critical information, but I like knowing "Cripe, you're up late" vs. "Oh, hey, coming in for the evening?". Five different ones so far, covering Australia (Sydney's time zone), New Zealand, London, Belgium & Sweden (same time zone), and U.S. Eastern time. I had no idea New Zealand was two hours off the time zone for the eastern coast of Australia (like Eastern time US and Mountain time) - I thought it was closer than that. It's been fascinating to me, at least.

3. Patrick wore the hubby's old school jacket today - my M-I-L just loved seeing him in it after school. According to her, Patrick EATS like the hubby used to as well, LOL - he ALWAYS comes home hungry (and usually wanting pancakes, heh. His favorite!).

4. Yesterday, 87 degrees. Today, 63. It'd be nice to be able to pull out the fall/winter stuff and put up the summer stuff without being worried about needing the summer stuff back out next week.

5. Speaking of fall clothing, Calla looks SO TALL in long pants. Cripe.

6. The weekly "Breakfast with Papi" is switching to Saturday, so that Patrick can go too, since he's missed it now that he's in pre-K. Location is also switching, from IHOP to the local McD's - cheaper, and the kiddos can play. I feel awful about leaving IHOP, though - our waitress is going to wonder what happened to us. She would have our table set and the kiddos' order in when we walked in the door. I should go out there with Calla one morning, to at least let her know not to expect to see us every week.

7. Missed garage sales this morning, since it was raining. Calla's been going with my M-I-L and I, and every week, she manages to score something for free that someone will give her. So nothing this week, though I did pick up a book for her at the thrift store (we were looking for more uniform pants for Patrick). Maybe we'll get to go next week.